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. . Would you like other articles like this in your inbox? From crypto to cannabis.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

VMware Head of Cybersecurity Strategy Tom Kellermann said that extremist groups, beyond organized crime, are known to harness alternative payments infrastructure to fundraise and for “operational purposes.” This raises the necessity of increased regulation of digital money,” he said, per the outlet.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Gangs in Latin America are increasingly turning to cryptocurrency to operate illegal trades of drugs, guns, sex and people, Reuters reported. Additionally, institutional customers of crypto lending platform BlockFi can now use bitcoin as collateral in risk-managed loan agreements executed on Fidelity Digital Assets, the release stated.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

From a transaction-monitoring perspective, the risk and fraud departments should look for rapid transfers between accounts, money mule activity, and transactions with no reasonable explanation for action or source of funds. Institutions should also monitor virtual currency or cryptocurrency transactions for unusual activity.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To that end, in France a number of media enterprises — ranging from the APIG press alliance, which represents dozens of national and regional papers, to AFP and the union of magazine editors — have filed complaints with EU regulators over copyright laws. The latter firm operates 150 hospitals and 50 senior living facilities across the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With it, financial institutions need to strengthen their compliance to mitigate the risk of running afoul of the law. Certainly, the use and availability of cryptocurrencies is another emerging area that is contending with its own unique set of compliance issues, but it is also one Wingert said appears to be closing gaps in regulation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

Blockchain is increasingly garnering headlines and attention for its use cases beyond cryptocurrencies. For instance, the ability to transfer data and various assets can help firms keep track of, and improve, operations. Yet, corporate finance especially is “operating, more or less, the same [way] it has for 20 years prior.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Compliance with market standards and regulations allows us to provide our clients with legal security and convenience of using the exchange, with the participation of a friendly banking system and the availability of payment operators,” BitBay said. “As a licensed exchange, BitBay has to follow the market standards.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Federal banking regulators have been busy in this space. President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, which delineated perceived risks associated with the increased use of stablecoins and highlighted three concerns: risks to rules governing anti-money laundering (“AML”) compliance, risks to market integrity, and general prudential risks.

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CFPB Monitor

APRIL 25, 2022

Anchorage is not any regular entity overseen by the OCC: it is a cryptocurrency custodian. As we will discuss, the timing of the Consent Order indicates that even when regulators permit crypto activities by financial institutions, they remain cautious, particularly as to BSA/AML compliance. The January 2021 Operating Agreement .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2019

Both corporates and banks have said Know Your Customer ( KYC ) regulations are their most pressing compliance concerns, with nearly three-quarters of businesses with more than $1 billion in revenues pointing to KYC as their top challenge. ” and an overall rise in complexity of current regulations. ” Technological Troubles.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2018

With Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) bringing business improvement orders against multiple exchanges, some crypto exchanges are limiting their operations: At least one exchange said it would stop taking on new clients and review some of its existing clients, Seeking Alpha reported.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

“Over the past few years, the rise of new financial marketplaces, globalized eCommerce, cross-border payments, international remittances, and cryptocurrencies have become significant opportunities for banks,” Caldera wrote in a recent report. banks and their relationships with payday lenders, and other high-risk businesses.

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FICO

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It has also opened new doors for criminals, who have rushed to exploit the uncertainty in a pandemic world and devised new money laundering and terrorist financing schemes by taking advantage of loopholes in the regulations, new ways of working aided by advances in technology, and electronic payment innovations.

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FICO

MARCH 6, 2020

In 2014, I joined Tonbeller as Head of Sales & Channel Operations and became Management Board member shortly thereafter. FICO brings AI and advanced analytics to risk management, fraud detection, collections and much more. How long have you been in the industry? However, this has changed over time. In the U.S.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Bank Regulator Working for Merchants Award! Seems like maybe this has been forgotten when it comes to these regulations. The Lifelong Learning Award – goes to NCUA board member Rodney Hood for enrolling in a Wharton graduate program on fintech to be a more informed and effective regulator.

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CFPB Monitor

JUNE 11, 2019

Involve a business model, delivery mechanism, or element that may require the applicant to be licensed or authorized to act as a financial institution or other entity regulated by the Utah Financial Institutions Act. The size of transactions involving money transmission are similarly regulated on a case-by-case basis.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Meanwhile new competitors regularly emerge, including person-to-person facilitators such as digital wallet provider Venmo, crowd-funding loan provider Lending Club and real-time cryptocurrency settlement company Ripple. FinTech customers have no idea they are exposing themselves to identity and financial risk. Siphoning customers.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Today, 22 of those companies have become unicorns, 17 have exited, and none have shuttered operations. Since January 2019, Citi has announced partnerships with capital markets tech companies Capitolis and Kantox and treasury risk management software Kyriba. Click to enlarge. .

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Lex Sokolin

JULY 1, 2019

Goldman Sachs entered and dominated personal digital lending, runs a neobank and roboadvisor, bought a large digital wealth footprint in United Capital, launched a credit card in partnership with Apple, and is now looking into cryptocurrency stablecoins ?—?something something that Facebook and JP Morgan have already started building.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 25, 2019

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)

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