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February 24, 2024
Here are answers to some questions that have recently been raised by regulated entities with regards to OFAC compliance requirements....
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February 21, 2024
Historically, sanction lists contained names transliterated into Latin characters. Recently the common practice took a turn, and currently most sanction...
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February 7, 2024
The world-leading service & community F6S ranks Fincom #1 among Israel’s Top 78 Government/Fintech Startups 2024 Fincom is proud to be...
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December 25, 2023
2023 is coming to an end, and Fincom is summing up the results, while looking forward to the new year...
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September 27, 2023
The financial world is witnessing an unprecedented collaboration – a partnership that emerges as a potent amalgamation of Finastra’s acclaimed...
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September 21, 2023
The finance world converged in Toronto for Sibos 2023, a conference that has been the linchpin for discussions, debates, and...
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September 19, 2023
Real-Time Compliance (RTC) meets Real-Time Payments (RTP) In an era where financial transactions move at the speed of light, ensuring...
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August 31, 2023
Lessons from OFAC Enforcement Actions of the first half of 2023 The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign...
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August 10, 2023
Lessons from OFAC Enforcement Actions of the first half of 2023 The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign...
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August 7, 2023
Perpetual KYC has recently become a “hot” subject in compliance management. Although all the leading AML solutions providers offer educational...
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August 5, 2023
The challenges of traditional compliance practices In the challenging landscape of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance, banks, Financial Institutions (FIs), and...
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August 2, 2023
With technology advancing rapidly, banks and financial institutions are increasingly adopting AI and ML-based solutions for handling various aspects of...
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July 27, 2023
In a recent move by the Federal Reserve, Deutsche Bank found itself in hot water, facing a hefty $186 million...
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July 18, 2023
The essential regulatory obligation of anti-money laundering (AML) sanction screening involves the meticulous task of comparing names, addresses, and other...
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July 15, 2023
The essential regulatory obligation of AML sanction screening involves the meticulous task of comparing names, addresses, and other details in...
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July 7, 2023
In the course of the last few years, AI technologies have captured and continue penetrating almost every industry. The positive...
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February 18, 2023
 “All providers of instant payments in EURO must offer the service checking the match between the account number (so called...
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February 14, 2023
Last year KS&R conducted an annual survey of US Banks and other Financial Institutions survey commissioned by LexisNexis. Interestingly, the...
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February 9, 2023
In 2020 the total global spendings on regulatory compliance reached approximately $215B. As the compliance regulations evolve, these costs are...
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February 7, 2023
Rapid technological development of the past few decades has been recently accelerated even more during the years of COVID-19 pandemic...
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January 19, 2023
New insights into the past year’s results continue to emerge as the new year begins. Today’s headline of Financial News...
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January 8, 2023
$50m Fine imposed on Coinbase for Compliance Failures DFS (New York State’s Department of Financial Services) opens 2023 with imposing...
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December 11, 2022
…it could have avoided paying a £108M fine. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Santander UK (the UK subsidiary of...
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December 7, 2022
In 2022 hundreds of millions of dollars fines have been imposed on large organizations all over the globe, ranging from...
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August 28, 2022
Entity Resolution is one of the key steps preceding and defining the quality and accuracy of data sharing. Entity Resolution...
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June 12, 2022
BEST SOLUTION FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN REGULATORY COMPLIANCE RegTech Insight Awards from A-Team Group is a highly esteemed annual competition...
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May 27, 2022
AML compliance for E-Commerce: Automated Real Time Sanction Screening Required: compliance with AML regulations without compromising the online service level....
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March 7, 2022
SANCTIONS – CHALLENGES – SOLUTIONS In only 5 days Putin achieved remarkable unprecedent results: He healed the world from COVID-19....
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March 1, 2022
As the attempt of invasion of Ukraine by Russian military forces continues, the world is turning its financial back to...
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February 17, 2022
Individuals and organizations rely on data for analysis, forecasting, decision making in a variety of fields, including scientific research, finances,...
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January 27, 2022
The UK is taking AML regulations very seriously. More and more financial institutions and other entities (e.g. law firms, e-commerce...
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January 26, 2022
Money-laundering has been a huge issue for quite a while now. There is nothing new about the fact that banks...
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January 13, 2022
Now let us dive deeper and see how this “AI bias” (for elaboration on the term, please see Part I...
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January 13, 2022
First of all, what is “algorithmic bias? In her article, “Reconciling legal and technical approaches to algorithmic bias”, Alice Xiang...
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December 30, 2021
The FinCen regulations based on the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA) of 2020 contain a number of updated AML obligations, requirements,...
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December 30, 2021
The AML Act (AMLA) of 2020 stipulates that, along with implementing FinCEN’s organizational and operational AML/CFT regulations, financial institutions shall...
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December 23, 2021
The NatWest bank, a major retail and commercial bank in the UK, pled guilty to three offences under UK anti-money...
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December 23, 2021
Our world is a world of ever-evolving technologies and innovations. It is also a world in pursuit of social equality...
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December 15, 2021
Business and tourism are booming in the UAE, making it one of the world’s largest business and tourism centers. Furthermore,...
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December 1, 2021
You would think I would have a flood of CV’s coming at me, I wrote “High Paying” and honestly, I...
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November 2, 2021
Identifying the relevant Entity name requires the ability to: Understand the Name in Multiple Languages. Example: Khaled Mashal in arabic:...
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October 10, 2021
AML Name Screening mathematical equation: Z = (spelling variations x transliteration x name structures) x 170,000,000 data entries Sanction &...
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October 10, 2021
Are Banks stocks rating at risk for missing ESG goals due to Social Discrimination & Bias in legacy AML solutions...
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October 1, 2021
FIND A NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK The AML Name Screening Challenge Find a Needle in a Haystack AML Name Screening poses a significant...
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September 26, 2021
A major challenge in AML Name Screening is numerous name variations that obscure the real entity. Sorting out different spellings,...
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September 9, 2021
New US congressional legislation passed last month instructed FinCen of the Treasury Department to warn and make sure that financial...
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August 26, 2021
Screening of Names is a fundamental action that financial institutions & Fintech’s must perform as part of their AML compliance...
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August 26, 2021
So, any unknown person Mr. X opens a bank account, and they pass the KYC process with flying colors, and...
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August 24, 2021
U.S. Treasury’s FinCEN Issues $60 Million Penalty Against Operator of Bitcoin ‘Mixers’. The Wall Street Journal, Oct 19, 2020 For...

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