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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. Up to 200 regulatory changes occur every day, varying from large scale regulation like Dodd Frank, to minute changes to the font and size of footnotes in regulation text. Enter, IBM Watson Compliance. Confusion can become expensive in the compliance industry.

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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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Libra Forces Cryptocurrency Regulators To Reexamine Procedures

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Facebook’s Libra project has renewed focus on how cryptocurrencies are regulated, with current rules on the sector patchy and varying from country to country. The Cost of Compliance. The projected 2020 cost of AML compliance across all U.S. financial institutions (77 percent) for AML compliance.

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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. Common Concerns. Why RegTech?

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ICC Says Regulation Limits Trade Finance

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Reports in Reuters on Tuesday (May 28) said UBS expects its regulatory costs to remain high in the years ahead after a decade of more stringent regulations leading to heavier, more costly burdens on banks. “That has tied up enormous resources.” “Why is this so significant?