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How to Manage Dual Sanctions Compliance Post Brexit Addition of UK Regime to EU Regulation
Brexit created a number of regulatory compliance challenges for financial institutions in the UK, not least a change to sanctions regulation that is set out in the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018, and is fundamentally different to EU sanctions regulation. If your organisation falls within scope of the new UK sanctions regime or both…
Mirato Raises $9 Million to Fund AI-Based Supplier Risk Platform
In another indicator of the market’s acceptance of AI, Tel Aviv-based Mirato has raised $9 million to support the development and commercialization of its third-party risk management (TPRM) platform. With regulators intensifying their scrutiny of financial institutions’ relationships with external suppliers – with regulations like GDPR addressing privacy concerns, for instance – Mirato’s offering helps…
TruNarrative Brings Identity Verification Solution to Small Businesses
Leeds-based Enterprise RegTech TruNarrative has launched a brand new, low-cost client verification and regulatory compliance solution for the legal, investment, accountancy and Rreal estate sectors in a bid to solve and streamline the KYC and KYB challenge for smaller firms. TruPortal is a platform designed specifically for low-volume users, offering KYC and AML solutions including AI-driven…
Uncovering PEPs in Fight Against Financial Crime
By Rachel Woolley, Global Director of Crime at Fenergo. Non-compliance is a costly business. Throughout 2020, financial institutions (FIs) around the globe have received $10.6 billion in enforcement actions for financial crime violations, including breaches of anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) regulations— up 27% from last year. With the pandemic leading to…
New Compliance Solution from Plenitude Seeks to Boost Financial Crime Compliance
London-based risk and compliance specialist Plenitude this week launched a new cloud-based Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) solution called Plentitude RegSight, in a bid to clarify and streamline the complex world of FCC obligations management. In a world of increasing regulation and heightened regulatory scrutiny, the requirement for organisations to meet legal and regulatory obligations has…
Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank Chooses Fenergo for CLM Solution
The world’s first digital trade finance bank, Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank (AGTB), based in the UAE, has chosen Fenergo to deploy its CLM platform. Fenergo will enable AGTB to meet its strategic objective to disrupt the trade finance market with a cloud-based, digital-first and client-centric model leveraging emerging technologies such as data analytics and API connectivity….
Refinitiv Focuses the Financial Crime Fight Against War Criminals
Refinitiv is taking the financial crime fight to the source, partnering with investigative and policy team The Sentry to access open-source data on African war criminals for its World-Check dataset. Co-founded by George Clooney and a strategic partner of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, The Sentry uses open-source data collection, field research, and state-of-the-art network data…
Curve Partners with Passfort on New KYB Solution
Know Your Business (KYB) is one of the buzzwords in the AML space right now and we’re seeing increasing levels of activity as solutions providers seek to develop effective automated methods of assisting clients with their onboarding needs. This week heralds the newest of these partnerships, as card consolidation platform Curve signs up with CLM…
Covid Proof: The Future of Onboarding High-Net-Worth Clients
By Hugo Chamberlain, COO, smartKYC. The future of high-net-worth client onboarding has arrived – and it is one well suited for our post-COVID world. Automated and paperless, it enables wealth managers to accelerate acquisition, fully comply with the most stringent KYC regulations and deliver a frictionless start to the beginning of the client relationship. In…
Fenergo Automates Client Onboarding Systems for Mizuho Americas
Mizuho Americas has deployed Fenergo client lifecycle management (CLM) software to automate Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulatory processes, digitalise workflows and accelerate client onboarding. The Fenergo implementation replaces manual processes and provides Mizuho Americas with a single, comprehensive view of customers across all business lines. Mizuho Americas’ parent, Mizuho Financial Group,…