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The Dark Art of Money Laundering
Art is an increasingly attractive avenue for money launderers, and legislators have taken notice Deep in the night at a major European port, a high-end security company guard is on…
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Money Laundering Through Mobile Apps
The first money laundering activities to run through mobile apps took place over ten years ago when 20 of the top 25 downloaded applications in the Danish Apple App Store…
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Banks Are Forfeiting Revenue By Eschewing Correspondent Banking
Correspondent banking is a vital system that helps to connect smaller and underdeveloped communities to the world’s financial ecosystem. In the last decade or so, the need for correspondent banking…
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Reopening Revenue Streams
On its surface, de-risking banking activities is a justifiable move. Rather than attempt to manage the risk, banks choose instead to avoid risk. With that move, they sidestep past onerous…
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Finding the Unknown Unknown
There is a great romanticism about the unknown unknown. It sits there on the edge just beyond our knowledge and understanding. North America, before Columbus sailed there in 1492, was…
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Overcoming Limitations in Transaction Monitoring
When I began my career, back in the late 90s, I was hyper-focused on rule-based technology and methodology. Rules represented our best chance at using automation to monitor transactions and…
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The Unbearable Ease of Laundering Money
With over 4000 leaked SARS that were involved with 2000 banks, turns out most of the SARs were related to cross border activity, a well-known “blind spot” in the banking…
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The Bad Actors are Taking the Correspondent Banking Route
Global economy is facing real challenges with cross border payments, Financial Institutions lost trust in their counter-parties and their AML controls, De-risking and slow business are no longer needed-with ThetaRay…
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What’s Worse Than the Unknown? The Unknown Unknown
Across the globe, the C-suite of financial institution fear the unknown. In fact, most of us fear the unknown but FI executives can get into serious regulatory, legal, financial and…
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Using Practical Data Science to Solve Real-World Correspondent Banking Challenges
I think you all know that correspondent banks are required to meet specific regulatory obligations while maintaining their correspondent relationships, as well as meet general compliance obligations to report suspicious…
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What do Quantum Physics and Correspondent Banking Relationships Have in Common?
My banker told me that, in theory, managing his relationship with regulators and respondent banks is straightforward. Then he paused and said, “Actually, about as straightforward as explaining quantum physics…
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Clear.Bank reduces investigation times to minutes
ClearBank leverages ThetaRay for advanced AML solutions