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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Gonzo readers, 2021 was just plain schizophrenic. 2021 fintech investments, merger activities, and overall focus were off the charts. Two, read and enjoy the 2021 GonzoBanker awards, our annual take on the best things we saw during the year. So which merger was the best in 2021? Doug Larson. THE BANKER AWARDS.

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Remembering 9/11 – A Pivotal Day for BSA/AML Professionals

Abrigo

BSA was intended to detect illicit activity through cash and monetary instruments to catch tax evaders using secret foreign bank accounts. October 26 is now nationally recognized as BSA/AML Day.) After a few years of court battles over specific privacy laws, the Currency Transaction Report (CTR) became mandated by the BSA in 1976.

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FinCEN’s AML/CFT Priorities: A risk assessment perspective

Abrigo

Introduction Incorporating the AML/CFT priorities into a risk assessment Not all risks to a financial institution are equal. Since the AML/CFT priorities are still relatively new, the residual risk is most likely considered low to moderate when solid mitigating processes are in place. These networks exploit the U.S.

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10 Lessons We Learned at the Nacha Smarter Faster Payment Conference

South State Correspondent

The major themes of fraud, artificial intelligence (AI), expansion of instant payments, open banking, and regulation were particularly relevant to your roles as executives, risk managers, compliance officers, and technology leaders. As such, the National Security Agency (NSA ) is calling for banks to be compliant by 2030.

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US Bankcards Industry Benchmarking Trends: 2023 Q1 Update

FICO

The National Association of Realtors reported that sales of previously owned homes declined 2.4% Compared to Q4 2021, the average interest rate on general purpose credit cards has increased nearly 800 basis points (Source: Federal Reserve G.19 Visa is predicting negative GDP in Q2 and Q3 with a return to growth in Q4 2023.

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Conducting an exam-proof AML/CFT risk assessment for credit unions

Abrigo

Step two Identify inherent risk vs. residual risk Inherent risk is any activity or factor posed to the credit union, notwithstanding applying any management or risk mitigation tools. This example is a situation with a "high" inherent risk and "strong" mitigating controls. If so, how is this monitored?

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Guest Post: Financial Markets & Economics Update by banker Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

The markets believe the chance of tax hikes, repeals of tax cuts, and gigantic initiatives are greatly diminished. Moody’s estimates that there is $70 billion in back rent across the nation. By the way, our economy has done better than all other nations; for example, Europe is 4.3% Projections for 2021 are at about +7.0%