Abrigo

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Checklists, guides, and more to help you and your AML-CFT staff Thousands of FinCrime professionals have accessed these guides, checklists, and other resources produced in 2022 by Abrigo's team, which includes former bankers, BSA officers, and regulators. . This whitepaper explains the basics of crypto and blockchain technology.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

regulators cracked down on the firm Oct. regulators not coming as a surprise. The round was led by Blockchain Capital, Standard Crypto, Blockchain.com Ventures and more. Mishra said he’d already been seeing the “Wild West”-like nature of the crypto derivatives space, with the new activity from U.S.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), over deficiencies that the OCC identified in the Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) compliance program. The office recently examined the branches for BSA/AML and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions compliance. On Wednesday (Feb. On Wednesday (Feb.

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MAY 26, 2017

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. With the various advances in technology, many issues have come to light from the use of blockchain. years away) if blockchain technology were implemented.

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JANUARY 5, 2018

Blockchain-based challenger bank BABB — which stands for Bank Account-Based Blockchain — has hired a new CIO. I can only see blockchain technology as the next step in this evolution of payments and asset transfer in the future,” he said in a statement announcing his position at BABB. The company said Thursday (Jan.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the age of blockchain, all manner of physical assets are making the leap to bits and bytes. Blockchain can track transactions of all sorts and create a connected record — and that blockchain is rapidly cleaving from the cryptocurrency clamor to which it was once inextricably linked. percent pure.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

China’s Guangdong province has launched a blockchain financing platform for small and medium-sized businesses, backed by OneConnect , a Chinese FinTech recently listed on the New York Stock Exchange, according to a press release. . ” TaxBit will use the funding to speed up customer growth, and make its products better. .

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Bank Frick has grown its operations and staff while shrinking its physical footprint. While legacy banks are establishing digital-only offerings alongside existing services, Mauro Casellini, Bank Frick’s head of blockchain and payment service providers, told Bank Innovation that […].

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MARCH 10, 2017

With eCommerce in full swing, many retailers are looking to restructure many facets of their operations. Blockchain technology is often used as the go-to source to enable faster and safer transactions, especially for smaller players in the retail market. and China alone was approximately $660 billion.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Chinese technology company Tencent has announced it’s going to start researching cryptocurrency and its implications for an ongoing project in blockchain, according to reports. Tencent was involved with the development of blockchain-enabled digital billing, with an invoice system for the city of Shenzen. The apps must comply by Dec.

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JUNE 20, 2019

One thing he wants to do right away is to enhance the coordination between financial regulators in the country. “To The BoE governor continued, “ This could also plug into ‘tokenised assets’ — conventional securities also represented on blockchain — and smart contracts. separates from the European Union.

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MAY 12, 2020

Traydstream , a FinTech that looks at trade documents with artificial intelligence (AI), has partnered with Infosys Finacle to implement blockchain technology and further automate trade finance, according to a press release. Consequently, our clients have experienced processing time reduction by nearly 75 percent.”.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

They face the challenge of offering customers a smooth onboarding process while also remaining rigorous in know your customer (KYC) efforts, taking care to remain compliant with local anti-money laundering (AML) regulations that aim to keep criminals from using legitimate operations to move money illegally. In the U.K.,

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blockchain and a bank charter might do much to boost financial inclusion. While many digital-first companies springboard from payments into lending, Figure Technologies , a FinTech focused on home improvement, debt consolidation and retirement products that leverage blockchain protocols, is branching out from lending into payments.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The awarded idea is a DLT-based digital cash platform that allows transactions with tokenized euro stored on blockchain. “We In other news, Jet Token is working to raise as much as $10 million in a Regulation A for its ethereum-powered private jet leasing marketplace. It was chosen from a group of over 280 applications.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

The head of the country’s only licensed and publicly traded cryptocurrency broker says tighter regulation and exponentially higher yields are causing corporate treasury and cash management accounts to seriously consider this alternative asset class. This in the wake of the OCC’s Sept. This in the wake of the OCC’s Sept. The Pandemic Pop.

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Insights on Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and cybersecurity are poised to transform the financial services industries. These technologies bring capabilities that speed risk modeling, automate fraud detection, ensure regulatory compliance, enable distributed trust, and protect sensitive financial information.

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Accenture

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Following on from my previous blog introducing the new year in the Fintech Innovation programme, I wanted to turn the focus onto the emergence of RegTech—technologies that address the challenge and cost of regulatory compliance. RegTech has two aims: increasing the effectiveness and the efficiency of compliance. Both are critical.

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Accenture

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Following on from my previous blog introducing the new year in the Fintech Innovation programme, I wanted to turn the focus onto the emergence of RegTech—technologies that address the challenge and cost of regulatory compliance. RegTech has two aims: increasing the effectiveness and the efficiency of compliance. Both are critical.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) — which uses tech like blockchain to verify transactions without the need for a centralized authority — is gaining traction as a way to revamp capital markets infrastructure by making it more streamlined, improving transparency, and reducing associated fees. Submit your application here before November 25.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

which the institution plans to deploy in its corporate payments operation. According to blockchain and cryptocurrency company BitRail , JPMorgan’s announcement was certainly a validating moment for the industry. BitRail doesn’t yet operate in the B2B payments space. “Adoption is like water,” he said.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

The global regulatory framework of cryptocurrencies and blockchain remains either fragmented, vague or simply nonexistent. However, Swiss officials recently took steps to get ahead of the regulatory uncertainty surrounding the world of blockchain, focusing on a particularly large hurdle for companies in the industry.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

22) a five-year agreement with blockchain company R3 allowing the financial institution to access an unlimited number of licenses from the Corda Enterprise platform. The agreement signals a significant push within blockchain for ING. ING Bank announced Tuesday (Jan. In another statement, R3 CEO David E.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Trying to understand how both big & small players are using Blockchain to disrupt finance? Distributed ledger technology (DLT) like blockchain could help streamline the creation of securities by offering a shared source of truth to all participants, removing the need for extra layers of oversight. First name. Company Name.

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Insights on Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

In March of 2016, I testified on the revolutionary nature of blockchains before the U.S. Since that time, blockchains have continued garnering interest across multiple industries from banking to health care, and have been explored for quite a few additional use cases. And let’s not forget blockchain’s nature as a disruptive technology.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Regulators, banks, customs, shipping, logistics and FinTech companies need to work together to inform new regulatory, legal and technical standards.”. There are a number of reasons behind the shortage in financing, one of them being the impact of regulatory and compliance requirement since the financial crisis,” Ramadurai explained.

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NCR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

If recent forecasts from the World Economic Forum (WEF) are to be believed, blockchain – the technology behind bitcoin – is set to become “the beating heart of the financial system” But some in the industry might not be entirely clear about what blockchain even is, let alone the impact it could have on how banks do business.

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MARCH 23, 2016

The whispers have grown to loud chatter when it comes to blockchain technology and the impact it might have on the financial services sector. The latest research from PwC found that banks are no longer taking blockchain technology as an easily ignored fad. For FIs, it’s better to be friend instead of foe with the disruptor.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Bank of America has teamed with IBM and its regulatory compliance arm, Promontory Financial Group, to create a cloud computing platform that has privacy, security and regulatory banking compliance protocols built in, according to a report by American Banker.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 31, 2022

On May 19, 2022, the Associate Director of the Enforcement and Compliance Division of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), Alessio Evangelista, spoke at the Chainalysis Links Conference in New York City on the topic of “The Intersection of Cryptocurrencies and National Security.” Responsible Innovation “.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

“As California moves to a regulated and licensed system, there is a long tail of retailers and brands in the industry that need to be connected,” said Craft Ventures Co-founder David Sacks in a statement. exchange, raising $153 million for its cannabis production operations.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

trillion gap in available trade finance, non-bank players have flooded the market to address the demand — and introduce efficiencies to an area of finance that has historically been bogged down by paper, manual processes and burdensome compliance requirements. However, the trade finance arena is not without its controversies and concerns.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Banks and FinTechs are going in on blockchain technology , as two separate reports released earlier this month conclude. A report from Corporate Insight, “Blockchain Solutions and the Future of Finance,” declares blockchain to be the future of the financial services world.

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NCR

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In any recent conversation about the new technologies and concepts driving change in the financial services industry, there is a strong chance that blockchain – the shared-database system that allows the cryptocurrency Bitcoin to function – would have featured. Blockchain has been heralded by some as the future of the industry.

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AUGUST 14, 2019

His worry, he said, are the areas where they have expected to see more data reporting and haven’t; as well as indications that casinos have been taking their foot off the gas pedal of late when it comes to their compliance activities. “It The Team Oriented Nature Of Compliance . kilograms of methamphetamines and more than $5.5

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

While the prices of cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets have fallen from their 2017 peaks, equity investment into blockchain startups is on pace to hit all-time highs in 2018. THE FUTURE OF BLOCKCHAIN TECH. See how venture firms, corporates, regulators, and builders are shaping the future of blockchain technology.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

New methodologies and technologies such as artificial intelligence are empowering firms to finally gain control of their risk and compliance efforts. Transforming the way compliance departments operate to meet the new reality requires an investment in technology.

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