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Increasing regulatory complexity and the cost of compliance

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Between 2009 and end of 2017, regulators in the US and Europe have imposed $342bn of fines on banks for misconduct, including violation of AML rules. Estimates suggest that is likely to top $400bn by 2020. Responsible for monitoring money laundering or theft, and detection of any potential financing.

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Can compliance be more than just a cost to the business?

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Ever since the financial crisis of 2007-2009 and the Euro crisis of 2010-2012, there has been a relentless focus on compliance within the financial services sector. There seems to be a never-ending stream of new regulations from governments, central banks, monetary authorities and supranational.

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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. . Worldwide, banks paid out approximately $321 billion between 2009 and 2016, for example, because they failed to comply with money laundering, terrorist financing and other regulations. .

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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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Director Chopra promotes aggressive enforcement in remarks to National Association of State Attorneys General

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In his most noteworthy remarks, Director Chopra: Identified federal preemption as having played a major role in the 2007-2009 sub-prime mortgage crisis and suggested that the OCC had used preemption “to attack state consumer protection enforcement.”

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Digital disruption in capital markets and investment banking

Bobsguide

Regulatory compliance dominated IT spending between 2009 and 2015 upon a backdrop of financial crisis, as well as the number of regulations passed during that time. However, firms have now realised that it is also crucial to spend effectively in areas that are critical to business and customer.

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Prince Charles’ Charity Funded By Company With Russian Ties

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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.” Troika’s boss during these transactions was Ruben Vardanyan, who has close ties to Putin.

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