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Deep Dive: How Automation And The Cloud Can Improve Operational Efficiency In Payments Processing

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Slow compliance checks and sluggish processing times are commonplace, especially on the legacy systems still used by many banks around the world. Automating Compliance. Cash payments are quickly falling to the wayside, with only 26 percent of all U.S. consumer purchases made with cash.

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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. . FIs that fail to catch illicit activities miss opportunities to hamstring such operations and unwittingly help fund them. banks increasing their AML compliance staffing tenfold between 2012 and 2017, according to one report.

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Prince Charles’ Charity Funded By Company With Russian Ties

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from a Russian-operated network of 70 offshore companies in one of the largest banking leaks. There is no evidence, however, that Vardanyan did anything illegal, and he has claimed that he believed the bank knew its clients, and “applied regulations and compliance procedures that met the requirements of the legislation of that time.”

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The pro-cyclicality of capital ratios and credit supply, a tale of two sizes

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The reforms aimed to ensure that banks have sufficient capital resources to absorb losses and reduce the cyclical effects of bank capital (and regulation) on the supply of bank credit in stress. Additionally, regulators in various jurisdictions have been trying to create simpler (but not weaker) regulatory frameworks for small banks.

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Reimagining the first line of defense with next-gen GRC

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The global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 brought a renewed focus on the governance, risk and compliance (GRC) processes within the financial institutions, who, not very long ago, viewed GRC as little more than a necessary evil – cost of doing business, which added little value.

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In The Age Of Algorithms, Will Banks Ever Graduate To True AI?

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AI’s less sophisticated (but much more well-known) cousin machine learning needs supervision to learn, though the technology is certainly capable of high-level fraud prevention and business operational tasks — which is why financial institutions have adopted ML, as the report has shown. Data Mining. Large Versus Small Banks.

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Blockchain Tracker: How Blockchain Tech Is Evolving Financial Services

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The latest technological finance breakthrough, blockchain technology, has been a slow burn over the past eight years, since 2009 when it popped up as the power behind bitcoins. Regulators could remake the financial system by rethinking the best way to achieve policy goals, without diluting standards.