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What’s Perpetual KYC and How Can I Implement pKYC Successfully?

Perpetual KYC (pKYC), also known as event-driven KYC, is seen by many as the solution to ensuring continuous compliance and risk management when it comes to Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Business (KYB) processes. But what’s pKYC, what does it look like in practice, and what does it take to implement it successfully?

Next Generation Enterprise Information Archiving:
How Can Your Firm Benefit?

The explosion in new communication modalities and collaboration tools, along with evolving regulations, are making regulatory record-keeping and compliance more complex and challenging by the day. In this interview, NICE Actimize Product Manager Rajeev Hegde weighs in on the challenges financial services firms are facing with respect to archiving growing volumes and types of communications data, and new solutions and approaches that can reduce compliance costs, complexities, and risks.

Network Analytics in Financial Crime and Compliance

Network analytics is a crucial tool when it comes to combating fast-evolving financial crimes. It reveals connections to suspicious activities, significantly improving investigations. Traditionally, network analytics in financial institutions (FIs) were siloed from main investigation platforms, requiring manual efforts from investigators. However, advancements in AI, analytics, and graph database technology have transformed its role, allowing for automated analysis and more effective risk uncovering.

SEPA Instant Payments – How will mandating real-time payments and the new Payment Service Regulation change the fraud landscape for European FIs?

SEPA is the Single Euro Payments Area, covering Euro denominated payments for 36 countries in Europe. Whilst most European countries have had access to SEPA Instant Credit Transfers (SCT Inst) since November 2017, they have not been widely adopted as quickly as had been hoped. This is about to change thanks to a new mandate from the European Commission (EC).

Outpace First-Party Fraud and Mule Activity

First-party fraud is when the fraudster doubles as a customer. Fraudsters will open accounts for the specific purpose of executing their fraud schemes. One common example these days are money mules who open accounts for fraudsters, enabling them to transfer money through multiple banks and countries to avoid scrutiny. In this blog, we cover how to stop losses to first-party and money mule fraud, along with how to move away from a narrow definition of third-party fraud loss on the profit and loss account (P&L) to a wider definition as per the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Fraud Classifier.

Unraveling the Threads of Responsibility: Personal Liability of Senior Management in AML Compliance Failures

AML regulations are designed to safeguard the integrity of financial institutions (FIs) in a fast-paced, evolving landscape—a robust anti-money laundering compliance program can’t be overstated. By following regulations, FIs can protect themselves from becoming unwitting accomplices to illicit activities. While firms implement stringent AML measures, the onus of ensuring compliance often falls on the shoulders of senior management. In the event of compliance failures, these leaders may find themselves facing not only professional repercussions but also personal liability. Compliance cannot be achieved without a strong ethical culture led by senior management who play a pivotal role in defining, shaping, and fostering this culture. In this role, senior management would be the driving force behind ethical behavior, regulatory adherence, and overall corporate integrity.

Thoughts on The Recent FCA Market Watch Newsletters

The FCA recently published the latest edition of its Market Watch newsletter (MW) 76, in which it revisited concerns about the practices known as flying and printing. The FCA had previously raised these practices as being of-concern in MW 57 back in November 2018.

The World of AML Risk Assessment

AML risk assessments are a first step toward protecting a financial institution (FI) from breaching financial crime regulations and stopping criminals from accessing financial services in addition to combatting pervasive money laundering.

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