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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. The role of BSA staff was typical compliance and very task-oriented. BSA Training. BSA Training. Remembering 9/11 – A Pivotal Day for BSA/AML Professionals. Learn More. Learn More.

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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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What are opportunities for accountants to provide advisory services?

Abrigo

Accounting, audit and tax services are unlikely to be the growth engines of the accounting profession in the coming years. Services geared toward compliance, meanwhile, are typically needed but not necessarily wanted, so clients continue to push for the cheapest options.

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How to Conduct an Exam-Proof BSA/AML Risk Assessment

Abrigo

Inherent risk is any activity or factor posed to the financial institution, notwithstanding applying any management or risk mitigation tools. After adjusting the inherent risk for the institution’s risk management controls, residual risk represents the bank or credit union’s current risk.

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Explainability in Fraud Management — What to Focus On Now

FICO

This is the essence of explainability in fraud prevention; we need to understand how fraud systems work, how their decisioning models are trained, and how they are fueled by the right data to provide real-time context. Effective Fraud Management Requires Explainable Technology. Can your fraud management shift along with those changes?”

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

The promises included tax cuts to 15% (although a much less dramatic decrease is expected), repeal and replacement of ObamaCare (stalled in the Senate), regulatory reform (some energy rules relaxed, but not much else), infrastructure spending to repair and replace our crumbling structures, roads, airports, electrical grids, etc. We shall see.

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My top five Decentralized Finance predictions for 2020

Lex Sokolin

Further, actually touching client funds immediately makes these apps into regulated custodians or money transmitters or financial advisors, which means a lot of compliance cost for little upside. If you raised money from SoftBank, you have to take on large risk, while the banks will take another 5 years to touch real DeFi. (2)