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AI Now Helps Banks Manage Compliance

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Will artificial intelligence help banks navigate the complexities of compliance more effectively? Against a backdrop where regulations have grown by leaps and bounds in the wake of the financial crisis, The Wall Street Journal reported that banks have taken on tens of thousands of new staffers tied exclusively to compliance.

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Watson at Work at IBM Think: Meeting compliance through cognitive computing

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Maintaining regulatory compliance is a daunting task. The cost of not being compliant is astronomical – since 2008, more than $50 billion in fines have been paid. Banks and financial institutions are looking for any advantage they can get to streamline operations and reduce compliance costs. Enter, IBM Watson Compliance.

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How Banks Can Turn Compliance Burden Into A Data Opportunity

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While regulators had transparency and financial security in mind when introducing more stringent requirements for banks following the global financial crisis, financial institutions faced a sudden surge in the burden compliance. The Key To Compliance Is Data.

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How Data Helps Lenders Manage The Balancing Act Of Risk

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Historically, banks are taking a reactive approach to risk: reactionary measures were largely behind financial institutions’ pullback from the small business lending market following the 2008 global financial crisis, for example. On top of that balancing act is the rising pressure of regulatory compliance, too.

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RegTech: From Compliance Checkbox To Competitive Cornerstone

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According to John Epperson, principal at Crowe LLP , that goes to show that the current approaches to regulatory and compliance technology ( RegTech ) aren’t working. Banks spent $100 billion on RegTech solutions last year, and $6 billion has been invested by venture capitalists since 2008. Why RegTech? A Cultural Shift Is Needed.

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How next-generation technologies are transforming governance, risk and compliance

Insights on Business

Today, governance, risk and compliance (GRC) is being transformed by not only rapidly-evolving regulatory standards and growing costs of non-compliance, but also by the clear and present need for greater GRC adoption/engagement – by the first line of defense – while delivering added value by empowering business users.

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Fraud & COVID-19: Lessons Learned from the 2008 Recession

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When it comes to fraud and COVID-19, the Great Recession of 2008 provides some important lessons that can help banks and consumers protect themselves against the increased risk. Here’s what different about fraud during COVID than 2008. There’s one fraud pattern that’s highly predictable: when the economy goes down, fraud goes up.

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