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Does Your Compliance Program Fit Within the OFAC Framework for Sanctions Compliance?

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Department of the Treasury recently published A Framework for OFAC Compliance Commitments to provide financial institutions and other organizations with OFAC’s perspective on the essential components of a sanctions program. locations and OFAC-sanctioned countries, regions, or persons. Facilitating transactions by non-U.S.

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New Report: Banking-As-A-Service Takes Friction Out Of Remittances

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Such a move would see the United Kingdom exit the European Union and abandon the financial regulations that are in place in the region, and some FIs that have served both markets are now withdrawing to serve one or the other. customers to recipients in Asia and Europe.

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LATAM’s Payments Innovation Renaissance

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“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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A Merchant’s How-To For Managing The Contactless Payments Surge And SCA Requirements

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In the latest Merchants Guide To Navigating Global Payments Regulations® , PYMNTS analyzes how the pandemic has affected SMBs in the EU, the United Kingdom and the United States. The health crisis has brought about changes to this rule, however, and these may have long-term implications for payment standards and regulations.

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India’s Central Bank Holds Firm On Data Storage Mandate

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Companies based in the United States that contend the directive would be costly, were they to comply — costly to the tune of millions of dollars. The newswire stated the mandate in India may have a ripple effect and may push the needle toward a similar walling in of data. On the other side of the equation? That trio of U.S.

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Mastercard Posts 16 Pct. Cross-Border Volume Growth In Q2

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Within that number, the United States saw 10 percent growth to $486 billion, outpaced by the 14 percent growth seen in the rest of the world. Management said on the call that switched transactions showed double-digit growth across all regions globally. Switched transactions were up 18 percent to 21.4

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

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Takeaway 2 The USA PATRIOT Act was the first legislation that criminalized terrorist financing in the United States. The role of BSA staff was typical compliance and very task-oriented. Takeaway 1 The terrorist attacks of September 11 were a pivotal point in the BSA, and the world. Never Forget. The day that changed the world.

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