Ben Knieff

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Outside Look

Member since

10 Jun 2011

Location

New York

Bio

Founder of Outside Look Inc, a speciality consulting firm for financial services providers focused on helping financial institutions address fraud, AML compliance and security challenges quickly and efficiently.

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Over 15 years experience in fraud management and AML with firms such as FIS, PayPal, NICE Actimize and Aite Group.

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Phone Scams For Everyone

In the past day or two I’ve received a few alarming voicemails claiming potential legal actions and even threatening that the police will come to arrest me. Some claimed to be from the IRS, others were more vague. Anyone’s initial reaction is great concern – no one wants to be subject of a mysterious debt collection, a criminal investigation, or p...

11 July 2017 Information Security

Banking Marijuana Related Businesses

In the past I've written in other venues I’ve written a good bit about banking marijuana related businesses (MRBs) – but that was in the past, well before the 2016 election in the US. Needless to say, a lot has changed. The focus of my writing then was centered around the 2013 Cole Memo and subsequent guidance from FinCEN in 2014, which laid out...

26 June 2017 Financial Services Regulation

What does Robotic Process Automation Really Mean

There have been a number of vendors getting in to Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to address some of the tedious aspects of AML compliance. As many know, even the best AML compliance systems tend to produce large numbers of false positives that analysts must review and clear. Large backlogs can lead to enforcement actions and generally lead to hi...

16 June 2017