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Buying into AML risks in real estate

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Regulations such as Geographic Targeting Order updates help identify AML risks by requiring identification for certain real estate purchases. The limited regulation around the real estate industry has made it especially easy for these bad actors to cycle their dirty money into the financial system using this avenue. In 2017, over 5.51

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Deep Dive: An Automated Approach To The $2T Global Money Laundering Problem

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As such, the regulators and FIs seeking to crack down on these activities have their work cut out for them. . Approximately 2 percent to 5 percent of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) – $800 billion to $2 trillion – is laundered each year, according to a report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: France Fines Amazon And Google $164 Million; Australia Warns Facebook And Google To Pay News Firms 

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The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), the French data protection watchdog, has hit Amazon and Google with significant financial penalties for allegedly contravening regulations on the digital advertising trackers known as “cookies,” CNBC reported. Amazon was told to pay 35 million euros (approximately $42.5

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Facebook Faces $6.06 Million Fine From South Korea; Big Tech Tax Becomes Due In France

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million of the 18 million users of the social media company in Korea was given to operators beyond Facebook without them knowing between May 2012 and June 2018. to the nation’s prosecution for a criminal probe. The agency penalized the firm after an investigation determined that the personal data of a minimum of 3.3

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HUD Issues Final Rule Permitting Private Flood Insurance with FHA Loans

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As previously reported in February 2019 federal regulators issued a joint final rule (the “Joint Final Rule”) to implement provisions of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 (the “Act”) that require regulated financial institutions to accept private flood insurance policies.

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Money laundering through art and antiquities: An update

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Review the issue and what your financial institution should do for BSA compliance. The fact that this market has been loosely regulated in the United States leaves the industry open to illegal actors in the dark market and open trade, such as auction houses and the internet. DOWNLOAD . Using art and antiquities to launder money.

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FinCEN AML/CTF Priorities Part 4: Counterproliferation

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The regulations are forthcoming, but institutions now should begin the process of performing a threat-focused risk assessment which will guide them where to focus their efforts. The North Korean government has been also found to have used chemical weapons against its own nationals. Included as a Priority is Proliferation Financing.

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