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Westpac Provisions $900m for Record AML Fine
Australian bank Westpac has reportedly set aside $900 million to cover its “potential liability” in what could be the biggest corporate fine in Australia’s history, following accusations by AUSTRAC (the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre, a government financial intelligence unit set up to combat financial crime) of 23 million breaches of AML and counter…
ESMA and MAS Sign MOU on Singapore’s Financial Benchmarks
ESMA, the EU’s securities markets regulator, has signed an agreement with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) completing the process to allow the use of Singapore’s financial benchmarks in the EU. Under the MOU, ESMA and MAS will share information and supervisory activities on Singapore-regulated financial benchmarks. The signing of the MOU follows the European…
Citi Commercial Adopts Kyckr’s Customer Verification Solution
Citigroup has extended its use of Kyckr, the world’s largest portal for customer verification, to its commercial banking division Citi Commercial Bank. It will use the firm’s API solution to access real-time, primary source data and documents during the client onboarding process, in a deal worth $300,000 over a 12-18 month period across 15 countries….
Kompli-Global Launches Remote Corporate Onboarding Platform
AML specialist Kompli-Global has launched Kompli-QED, a new remote corporate onboarding platform, in a bid to help financial firms fight an increase in COVID-19 related fraud and financial crime. The AI-based platform facilitates activities that regulated entities, such as banks, payment providers, accountants, estate agents and law firms, must undertake as part of their compliance…
Wolters Kluwer and Vizor Software’s Singapore Partnership Aligns Regulator and Financial Services Software for Improved Regulatory Reporting
Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting (FRR) business and Vizor Software have teamed up to work on a partnership for the Singapore market that will integrate the Vizor Reporting API into Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX platform for regulatory reporting, allowing it to automatically consume published machine-readable regulatory rules and data models directly from Singapore’s regulatory system. Vizor Software…
Unravelling AML Technology to Tackle Compliance and Mitigate Risk
By Niall Twomey, Chief Technology Officer, Fenergo. Recent research on financial institution fines revealed that, since 2008 global penalties have reached $36 billion for non-compliance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations. That is a 160% increase since our last fines analysis report, in September 2018, highlighting the unrelenting and costly march…
FRTB Calculation Debates Centre on Style, When They Should be Focusing on Substance
By Tim Versteeg, Managing Director of APAC at NeoXam. It’s been a turbulent few years for financial institutions when it comes to regulations, and 2020 is no different. With FRTB set to come in at the end of the year, financial institutions are devoting significant time and resources to comply with the regulation. For the…
Creator of SOTERIA Branches Out with New Agnostic Audio Assurance Offering, as Regulatory Focus Sharpens
Insightful Technology, the RegTech specialist most recently known for creating Communication compliance and surveillance SaaS solution, SOTERIA, has spread its wings today with the launch of the first agnostic stand-alone product outside of the core offering. Audio Assure, a solution that enables automated and accurate audio testing, as well as the monitoring of line operations…
AML Fines Increase by 160%, Finds Fenergo
Between October 2018 and December 2019, regulators across the US, Europe, APAC and the Middle East have levied over $10 billion in financial penalties against financial institutions for AML/KYC and sanctions-related violations and a further $82.7 million for data privacy and MiFID violations, according to Fenergo’s latest analysis of global regulatory fines for AML, KYC,…
RegTech Summit Goes Virtual!
Following the phenomenal success of the upcoming Data Management Summit Europe Virtual, set to broadcast 22-24 April and with registered delegates already nearing a record-breaking 750, we are beyond excited to be launching a similar RegTech Summit Virtual in June 2020: bringing you all the insights and expertise of the longstanding and market-leading A-Team Group…