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

PYMNTS

Compliance with oversight laws, especially those involving anti-money laundering (AML) or know-your-customer (KYC) regulations, is a perennial struggle for FIs of all sizes.

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FinCEN AML/CTF Priorities Part 6: Transnational Organized Crime (TOC)

Abrigo

The FBI explains TOC groups are “self-perpetuating associations of individuals who operate, wholly or in part, by illegal means and irrespective of geography.” Drug trafficking reached $320 billion in profits in 2009, including $85 billion in cocaine and $68 billion in opiates. trillion in 2009 or 3.6% It is also growing. .

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Branches more important than apps?

Chris Skinner

The regulator has tried to encourage more competition in the sector by implying the process to launch a new bank, a challenger bank. Since 2010, 19 new retail and commercial banking licenses have been issued, with at least eight more pending as at January 2017. We’re happy being customers’ second bank.

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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. . Rethinking Security Strategies . FIs that fail to catch illicit activities miss opportunities to hamstring such operations and unwittingly help fund them. Financial and Ethical Security Strategies.

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

BankUnderground

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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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.

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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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