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Business Identity in the Digital Economy: A Global Problem Needs a Global Solution
By Stephan Wolf, CEO of the Global LEI Foundation. Businesses today face significant pressure to go digital. Government and private sector organisations around the world are racing to digitise processes, products, and services – even national currencies – to remove friction, save money, streamline operations, and improve user experiences. Despite the tremendous benefits it delivers,…
FSB Explores Potential of Adding LEIs to Cross-Border Payments
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is encouraging greater adoption of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) in a report exploring its potential in cross-border payments. No implementation mandates are suggested, although the report does identify how the LEI could be a useful addition to payment transactions. The LEI is currently mandated for use in OTC derivatives…
Know Your Customer Offers Company Data from Local Registries Across 123 Countries
Know Your Customer has released an expanded version of its Know your Customer/Know Your Business (KYC/KYB) solution that covers company data and official incorporation documents from 123 countries worldwide. The data can be consumed using either Know Your Customer’s user interface or a single API. The expanded service provides real-time access to local company registries…
Protecting Data Privacy in the Fight Against Financial Crime
By Ronen Cohen, VP of Strategy at Duality Technologies. A primary goal for financial institutions is to generate revenue while understanding and mitigating risk. Tackling financial crime and compliance issues, including fraud, cybercrimes and money laundering, is critical to achieving this goal and remains among the most challenging tasks for the industry. The perpetual problem…
Data – the Answer to Meeting Sanctions Screening Challenges Exposed by Ukraine War
The war in Ukraine has highlighted not only the importance of having effective sanctions screening and control processes in place, but also the compliance challenges of modern sanctions regimes. Within the space of days, far-reaching restrictions were placed on individuals, organisations, companies and states covering large parts of the Russian economy and authorities, with the…
Recorded Webinar: Adding value and improving efficiencies in sanctions screening
Sanctions have been headline news this year. They are growing in number, sanctions lists are changing on a daily basis, and there can be conflict between sanctions issued by different jurisdictions – the whole calling for financial institutions to optimise sanctions screening to reduce risk and avoid potentially punitive penalties of non-compliance. This webinar will…
Encompass Forms Transformation Team to Help Banks Drive KYC Automation Initiatives
Encompass, a provider of a Know Your Customer (KYC) automation platform, has set up a transformation team charged with ensuring banks reap the benefits of automation initiatives. The team will help companies define what success means and facilitate organisational alignment required to achieve KYC transformation. Encompass transformation directors include former Barclays senior executive Howard Wimpory,…
Bloomberg Releases New Common Data Format for LEIs
Bloomberg has released the common data format 3.1 (CDF 3.1) for Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs). The latest CDF published by the Global LEI Foundation includes six entity category data fields that depict the type of legal entity, such as investment fund or government entity, as well as residential government entities, types of fund relationships and…
Fenergo Acquires Transaction Monitoring Market Entrant Sentinels
Fenergo has acquired Sentinels, an anti-money laundering (AML) transaction monitoring market entrant with artificial intelligence (AI) based technology. As a result of the deal, Fenergo’s clients and financial institutions will be able to combine rich KYC profiles with client behavioural data for continuous and granular KYC monitoring. Marc Murphy, CEO of Fenergo, comments: “Our shared…
A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit is Back in Town – Don’t Miss It!
A-Team Group will be live in London on Wednesday 11 May hosting its renowned Data Management Summit – and you are invited. This year’s London event will push the boundaries, with leading data practitioners, innovators and vendors covering everything from data-driven business strategy to data monetisation, perpetual KYC, data fabric, ESG data, value-added data governance,…