At the core of any financial institution’s anti-money laundering (AML) compliance department is its transaction monitoring system. The system analyzes transactional data against preset rules and generates a list of alerts for users to review. Alerts may be reviewed on a daily, weekly, or...

How should financial institution compliance officers, analysts and investigators view the Islamic State? On one hand, as concerned citizens, they should view the Islamic State as the barbaric and thug-like terrorist organization they are. On the other hand, as compliance professionals, they should view the...
AML Model Risk

Anti-money laundering (AML) models historically relied on qualitative, expert judgment components. Today, these models still rely on expert judgment but are coupled with more sophisticated scoring algorithms and have other quantitatively derived components, such as segments and thresholds. The increased sophistication of modeling techniques and...