Financial Crime Compliance Resources

• In recent years there has been a lot of talk about perpetual (or continuous) KYC. It is a term used to indicate the industry objective of moving away from conducting painful and ineffective periodic review processes....

• “There are some decades where nothing happens, and some weeks where decades happen” – Vladimir Il’yich Ulyanov (Lenin)

“Time won’t let me”[I]

The need to move quickly..

As the AML community grapples with increased fraud and financial crime during this global pandemic, previous regulatory challenges can become even more pronounced....

While we see that the financial crime rate is on the increase due to the coronavirus pandemic, a report from LexisNexis has revealed the worldwide spread of spending in relation to financial crime compliance, finding...

In this episode of AML Conversations, John Byrne sits down with Steve Gurdak, Group Supervisory of the Northern Virginia Financial Initiative, to discuss the work of his SAR Review team, the importance of law...

In the latest of our FinCrime Files interviews, we caught up with Caroline Kennedy, Head of Financial Crime Control Operation at Santander UK. She discusses the difficulties behind unstructured data for fighting...

In this episode of AML Conversations, John Byrne sits down with Gary Shiffman, Founder and CEO of Giant Oak and professor at Georgetown University, to discuss his recent publication, “The Economics of Violence.”...

The globe has been halted in its tracks for the past few months due to this ongoing pandemic. It has caused just as much disruption for businesses worldwide as past economic downturns, and still there are those that...

In 2016, illegal gold mining operations in Peru accounted for an estimated $2.6 billion in black market trading, surpassing cocaine as the country’s most valuable illicit export¹. The bulk of this illegal mining is...

Welcome to another installment of the AML Conversations video podcast series. In this episode Nicolas Burbidge, AMLRS Advisory Board member and former OSFI official, joins AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne, to...

“Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings” [i]

As the AML community clearly knows, the Federal Financial Examination Council (FFIEC) has been working for quite some time on the updates to the last iteration...

Continuously building out our source information, provided via theArachnys Data Gateway, we look to give our clients the confidence to perform onboarding, screening and investigations for companies and individuals they...

A mixture of government assistance, and exponential increase in need on behalf of customers, and the continuous need to remain compliant has left many financial institutions (FIs) stretched thin, and scrambling. As I...

In our continuing series of interviews, we attempt to uncover some of the challenges faced by those on the front line in fighting financial crime. We caught up with Matthew Tataryn, Head of Financial Crime atTide, who...

Welcome back to another episode of AML Conversations. With the recent upgrade to the US evaluation by FATF because of the 2018 CDD rule, there has been a debate on the appropriateness of the rating given other areas of...

Viruses are deadly because they are not easy to kill, let alone eradicate from nature. Slavery is a bit like a virus that refuses to die down in human society. As of 2020, virtually all nations on earth have abolished...

The world is currently facing a viral pandemic that threatens personal health, employment, and financial markets. Local and national news media are tasked with issuing public service warnings and updating citizens on...

• In times of crisis, we often see the best of people, with selfless and heroic individuals doing all they can to alleviate the suffering of others. Unfortunately, there are also people for whom crisis brings out the...

The operating landscape during the COVID-19 pandemic is constantly changing. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN[1]) has issued guidance twice in the last three weeks. The first, issued on March 16, 2020[2]...

New QuantaVerse Features Help Financial Institutions Curtail AML Compliance Costs

A View to a Kill?[i]

I have said many times that AML professionals in today’s world need to evolve and change with the various ways criminals adjust their actions to fit technology, laws and policies. Part of that...

Where are things in the AML compliance space going?

As regulatory expectations change, Congress flirts with statutory reform, and new technologies emerge, the AML compliance landscape has never been so dynamic. With...