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Financial Markets Operations Response to COVID-19: Best Practices for Working from Home
The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting all walks of life, and carries with it implications for society beyond even the obvious and immediate health impact. Business is being hit across the board, with many corporations sending staff home in an effort to keep them both safe and working. It’s clear that firms can’t rely on a…
LexisNexis Closes Emailage Acquisition
LexisNexis Risk Solutions has acquired Arizona-based Emailage, a fraud prevention and risk management solutions provider that provides fraud risk scoring solutions based on email intelligence. Its fraud prevention solutions assess fraud risks by utilizing email address metadata, a differentiated global contributory network, and machine learning algorithms. Emailage, which has established market presence in the US,…
Entity Data Management Handbook – Sixth Edition
High-profile and punitive penalties handed out to large financial institutions for non-compliance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations have catapulted entity data management up the business agenda. So, too, have industry and government reports on the staggering sums of money laundered on a global basis. Less apparent, but equally important, are…
FCA Sees Suspicious Transactions Decline for 2019
The UK financial watchdog has seen the number of suspicious transactions and order reports (STORs) go down for the first time since 2016, according to its latest STORs report for December 2019. The regulator suggests that more robust steps taken by firms to tackle financial crime risks could be part of the reason for the…
Skills and Systems Investment Surging in Financial Services, Finds TR Regulatory Intelligence Report
The right talent plays a crucial role in leveraging the benefits of RegTech within financial services firms, according to the fourth edition of Thomson Reuters’ annual regulatory intelligence report, released today. ‘Fintech, Regtech & the Role of Compliance in 2020: The Shifting Regulatory Role’ urges regulators and policymakers to ensure they have the appropriate up-to-date…
Nice Actimize Builds out X-Sight Marketplace with Acuris Addition
Financial crime specialist Nice Actimize has added anti-money laundering and data intelligence capabilities to its financial crime and compliance ecosystem through two new partnerships. Acuris Risk Intelligence and Sayari Labs will provide customised solutions for X-Sight Marketplace, a platform connecting financial services organizations with data, applications, tools and service providers. “Change in financial crime has…
Singapore Bank Selects NICE Actimize’s AML Essentials to Launch Digital Platform
TONIK, a Singapore-based pure play licensed digital bank, has selected the Essentials Anti-Money Laundering solutions suite from NICE Actimize to support the development of a secure banking environment for its new customer base following approval to establish a regulated bank in the Philippines. One of the first digital-only banks in the region in the Southeast…
All Eyes on Oracle as it Upgrades Financial Crime Capabilities
Global anti-money laundering and sanctions fines hit a record high of $5.7 billion in 2019 (compared to $3 billion in 2018 and $2 billion in 2017). Coupled with the growing threat of sophistication, and rising compliance costs, financial institutions are desperate for solutions to help them deter financial crime – and avoid massive penalties. Oracle…
Pelican Expands in South Korea
Pelican, a global provider of AI-powered payments and financial crime compliance solutions for banks and corporates, has expanded its global sales reach through a partnership with CMSoft Co in South Korea. The new strategic partnership will enable the company to bring its PelicanSecure Trade Compliance solution to the financial services industry in South Korea. “We…
Fenergo Gets $80 Million Investment from ABN Amro and DXC Technology
Dublin-based Fenergo has secured $80 million of new funding from ABN Amro and financial infrastructure specialist DXC Technology in one of the biggest RegTech financing rounds yet. The company, which specialises in solutions for AML and KYC, as well as client lifecycle management (CLM), plans to use the funds to acquire new capabilities in the…