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AUGUST 21, 2020

While Chinese traders are limited to the purchase of up to $50,000 of foreign currency annually, the volume suggests stablecoins could be being used to circumvent the regulation, according to Chainalysis , the New York-based provider of regulatory compliance software.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Compliance and risk? Automating that compliance is now a “need to have.”. Compliance and risk officers have the unenviable task of finding out, sometimes after the fact, that not all the boxes are checked — if they even knew the boxes were there for checking in the first place. Plugging In To Plugins.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Regulators are passing stricter policies, as well as cracking down on anti-money laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC) and sanctions noncompliance. FIs in the United Arab Emirates are also looking to get ahead of fraud with improved digital KYC practices. Taking A Local Approach To Fighting Money Laundering, Fraud Worldwide.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Open Banking’s European success has kicked off interest in similar regulations worldwide, most notably in China, India and Singapore, where digital banking’s popularity among general consumers is rapidly rising. Numerous regions then announced internal deadlines for compliance that often diverged from their neighbors’ deadlines.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

We allege that BitFunder operated unlawfully as an unregistered securities exchange,” Marc Berger, director of the SEC’s New York regional office, said in the release. We will continue to focus on these types of platforms to protect investors and ensure compliance with the securities laws.”. In a parallel criminal case, the U.S.

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FICO

MARCH 7, 2023

Home Blog FICO Responsible AI: Are European Firms Ready for the Regulators? There are significant changes coming in Europe, which highlight getting a handle on responsible AI use, with the banking and financial services sector among those that will be most impacted by increasing regulation.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

A bill that would give regional banks a break on regulation was before the U.S. Groshans said that such financial institutions as Zions, Regions Financial, Citizens Financial, Huntington, American Express and Keycorp would benefit from the law. The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act , S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Players in the sharing economy must contend with an increasingly complex online payments ecosystem as they move into new regions and attract participants to their platforms. Fraud, Payment Regulations Are Affecting Seamless Payments. Renters pay upon booking trips, and owners receive their payments once trips have begun.

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PYMNTS

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. News From The AML/KYC Ecosystem .

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Abrigo

AUGUST 22, 2019

Ongoing training is at the very heart of a satisfactory Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) compliance program in financial institutions. One option that makes it easy for BSA officers to complete required training is to attend regional meetings. Cost for these regional meetings is $100, and dates and locations are: Sept.

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FICO

DECEMBER 14, 2021

But European fraud and financial crime have continued to evolve. In the UK, Action Fraud reported several hundreds of cases of people receiving emails claiming to be from the NHS, offering them a vaccine passport, prompting them to click on a link and input their personal and financial details. Related scams have also been on the rise.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

World-Check data helps customers identify threats and comply with legislation and regulations for preventing money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, organized crime and third-party risk. For any regulated firm to thrive in the long term, consistent investment needs to be made in the risk, compliance and control functions. “For

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

The PSD2 -related regulation counts itself among a raft of those set to become law across the continent, focusing on boosting online commerce security by requiring cardholders to provide two forms of identification to verify their identities when transacting. A September to Remember. Only very few merchants are actually aware of SCA.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

With a permissioned blockchain network , services can be shared between credit unions, which could improve identification authentication and compliance surrounding regulations, know your customer, lending and payments. Under the plan, credit union members would be able to access the CULedger via a digital credential dubbed MyCUID.

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FICO

MARCH 10, 2022

I’ve been writing recently about the results of our recent global consumer fraud survey. But like most things, it’s not as simple as it sounds, as large customer groups are likely to switch banks if they are dissatisfied with their response to a fraud management incident (more on that in a moment). a biometric).

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FICO

JUNE 12, 2020

In comparison to others in the Asia Pacific region, regulation has evolved due to last year’s Royal Commission, updates to the privacy act as well as changes enacted by global bodies such as the FATF (Financial Action Task Force). Like other advanced financial sectors, Australia has a complex and evolving regulatory environment.

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FICO

JANUARY 22, 2020

There has been a proliferation of real-time payments fraud, as new near-instant payment platforms, including person-to-person (P2P) transfers and mobile payment platforms grow across Asia Pacific. . We recently conducted a survey with banks in the region and found that 4 out of 5 (78 percent) have seen their fraud losses increase.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Richard Ashton, deputy general counsel for litigation, enforcement and system matters, said at a conference in New York that the Federal Reserve is considering an audit of tech firms’ compliance policies and governance structures. Can we look at their overall compliance management program?”. The Annual Conference held Nov.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

“If a firm needs to digitally onboard someone and verify them, we can help that company do that fairly seamlessly,” Samer Atassi, regional director, Latin America and Caribbean for Jumio, told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Part of that, he added, is across-the-board high standards when it comes to compliance and verification.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

For several years, while state-level legalization has expanded, access to traditional banks remains an issue thanks to their status as federally regulated entities. For marijuana businesses, with compliance a critical yet challenging factor, these payment rails don’t always adequately address the needs of the sector.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A series of regulations was established to encourage a safer, more transparent financial services environment following the 2008 financial crisis. Failure to meet AML/KYC requirement challenges can be costly for FIs, too, with regulators issuing heavy fines for lax security practices or failure to devote sufficient resources to oversight.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

The Netherlands, for instance, only recently implemented it because it needed to make sure that consumers’ personal data will remain protected, as payments in the region are mostly digital. The country was unenthused, she said, adding that the new PSD2 law is viewed as “a way of regulating activity that is in the market already.”.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 2, 2018

The 16 registered cryptocurrency exchanges currently operating in Japan will soon form a self-regulating body, after a $530 million heist of digital coins in the region led to investor concerns, Reuters reported today.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Consumers have noticed the rising levels of fraud in digital banking, and they are not pleased. Financial institutions (FIs) need to keep watch for newer schemes as they seek to prevent different forms of fraud, such as money laundering, on their online platforms. Synchrony Financial Upgrades Its AML Strategy As Fraud Grows.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Crafting AI models that make sure people are who they say they are and prevent fraud, while eliminating identity bias and other pitfalls, comes with its own set of challenges, he said. Having localized teams in a given region or country can go a long way toward eliminating at least some of the bias that might exist in other countries.

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JUNE 28, 2018

But the recent thefts, along with other attempted and completed cyberattacks, demonstrate why payments officials in the region are expressing fresh concern about financial security there. Fraud is a Top Worry. Evidence of that comes from Swift’s Latin America Regional Conference , held earlier this month in Miami.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

Cohen described the numbers tied to ill-gotten gains as “eye-opening and [likely to] raise flags for the regulators. One microcosm of fraud and regulatory scrutiny is cryptocurrencies. In the last decade alone, noted Webster, as much as $26 billion in fines has been paid out by banks for non-compliance with AML standards.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

FICO’s Integrated AML Compliance Survey has revealed that while the vast majority of banks in more than 11 countries around the Asia Pacific region believe that AI will strengthen anti-money laundering efforts, many remain unsure how to operationalize the advanced technology. Investment in compliance technology.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

14 deadline — regulators in the majority of EEA countries formally confirmed that they would not be enforcing it, and would instead support a phased rollout of SCA. Within that window, both have laid out specific deadlines for various industry players to reach full compliance by the end of the migration period.

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Abrigo

JULY 14, 2023

How has the commercial real estate market performed, and how it is performing today by collateral type in your region/market? These should include historical interest rate and credit performance trends (e.g., how has this portfolio performed over time, and has the pricing reflected the risk taken?) Industry borrower data.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2018

A February 2018 study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis found that 75 percent of American financial institutions incurred losses due to fraud last year. Governments and regulators around the world are also stepping into the fight against fraud. DPAs Prepare for Looming GDPR Deadline .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Not so for other parts of the world: Government mandates are looking to reduce corruption and fraud and enhance reporting capabilities through eInvoicing requirements. company looking to do work abroad, it means you can’t ignore these various regulations, either. And if you’re a U.S. In the U.S., “Ironically, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

The appeals have been rebuffed by the central bank, which said the compliance is mandatory. companies has said millions of dollars will have to be spent in the region in order to get local data centers up and running. In the past, Visa CEO Alfred Kelly stated the six-month compliance timeframe was “tough.”. That trio of U.S.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Thomas focused on three key issues directly affecting the present and future of the accounting industry – increased regulations, a shifting workforce, and changing continuing education – as well as some thoughts on the opportunities these challenges offer.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2018

So it is perhaps with a bit of irony that the eCommerce behemoth known as Amazon , via its Web Services division (AWS), has positioned itself as offering a way for local and regional financial services providers to craft new products, enter new markets and meet the regulatory requirements necessary for worldwide competition.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

That sentiment was underscored earlier this month when South Korea said it would delist a number of altcoins from an exchange over privacy concerns – namely, the anonymous nature of the transactions are at odds with the goals of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which include combating money laundering and fraud.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

And New England isn’t the only place enjoying the autumn chill as it sets in — although we are perhaps enjoying it more colorfully with the region’s famed foliage. The report excluded data on shop-at-home purchases and includes information about frauds reportedly directly to the FTC between January and September of this year.

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