ABN Amro has confirmed that it could face possible money laundering fines, following an order from the Dutch central bank to review all its transactions for possible money laundering or financial crime activities. The news comes after fellow Dutch bank ING was hit with a $900 million fine in September 2018 for similar issues.
The data needs of financial institutions are growing at pace as new formats and greater volumes of information are integrated into their systems. With this has come greater complexity in managing and governing that data, amplifying pain points along data pipelines. In response, innovative new streamlined and flexible architectures have emerged that can absorb and...
Financial crime compliance is often described as a resourcing challenge. Firms speak of analyst backlogs, alert volumes and the rising cost of surveillance and screening. Kieran Holland, Solutions Engineering Team Leader at Innovative Systems’ FinScan, argues that the underlying constraint has shifted. Financial crime has become a decision-speed problem. “The fight against financial crime is...
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The European corporate actions market could be the stage of some pretty heavy duty discussions regarding standards going forward, particularly with regards to the adoption of both XBRL tagging and ISO 20022 messaging. The region’s issuer community, for one, is not going to be easy to convince of the benefits of XBRL tags, given the...
