582 Results from /crime
Rodrigo Zepeda CEO at Storm-7 Consulting Limited
In June 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published feedback on good and poor quality applications under the existing cryptoasset anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) regime (Feedback). This four-part blog series will aim to provide crypto firms and their compliance personnel (including Money Laundering Report...
26 June 2024 /crypto /crime Cryptocurrency Insights
In June 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published feedback on good and poor quality applications under the existing cryptoasset anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) regime (Feedback). The Feedback identified that out of 347 applications from crypto firms received by the FCA since January 2020, only 47 appli...
25 June 2024 /crypto /crime Cryptocurrency Insights
Binh Dang Sales and Marketing Executive at smartKYC
In recent years, Know Your Customer (KYC) processes have become increasingly critical for financial institutions and other regulated entities to mitigate risks associated with money laundering, fraud, and terrorism financing. However, traditional KYC methods are often time-consuming, manual, and prone to errors The emergence of Natural Language Pr...
24 June 2024 /ai /crime RegTech
Brittany Allen Trust & Safety Architect at Sift
Walking the floor at the recent Merchant Risk Council (MRC) annual Las Vegas conference, I was struck by how often one particular topic kept coming up in my conversations with merchants across different verticals and sizes: refund fraud. Industry leaders and practitioners are seeing rampant refund abuse, representing a significant source of financ...
21 June 2024 /identity /crime
Nick Green Director at Purple Patch Broking Ltd
The fintech industry has faced major hurdles due to economic ups and downs and changing regulations. This has forced fintechs to rethink their rapid growth plans. Unbridled expansion is no longer viable. Now, fintechs must prioritise sustainable and profitable growth over the long term. As a major contributor to the economy, the UK fintech sector ...
20 June 2024 /retail /crime Fintech
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Financial institutions face increasing challenges in combating financial crime. While technology has significantly advanced (e.g. thanks to AI), the methods employed by criminals have also evolved, becoming more sophisticated and harder to detect. One of the crucial challenges in this battle is the siloed approach to detecting and combating financ...
17 June 2024 /regulation /crime Exposing Financial Crime
Retired Member
The contemporary banking system operates in a dynamic and interconnected global landscape. While this presents vast opportunities, it also introduces novel challenges to financial security. According to a report by Deloitte’s Center for Financial Services, generative AI could drive fraud losses in the United States to an estimated $40 billion by 2...
14 June 2024 /regulation /crime
Steve Bradford Senior Vice President EMEA at SailPoint
In 2021, a wave of deepfake videos started to emerge across the internet and social media. From humorous TikTok videos of Tom Cruise, to unsettling speeches from Morgan Freeman explaining synthetic reality, AI-driven deepfakes started to capture the attention of many internet users. Over the past year, as AI has bled into the mainstream, technology...
12 June 2024 /ai /crime
The use of AI in banking fraud detection is becoming more and more popular. Indeed, the statistics surrounding online fraud are alarming. Cybercrime imposes a significant cost on the global economy and reaches $600 billion annually, equivalent to 0.8% of the worldwide GDP. Besides, fraud attempts surged by 149% in the first quarter of 2021 compa...
11 June 2024 /ai /crime Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Helena Wood
With a General Election announced for 4 July, now is the perfect time for a stock take on the progress made over the past decade in relation to tackling fraud. For the most part, this was a decade in which fraud felt like the Cinderella of the criminal justice system; a crime neglected by politicians and police alike while other crime types receiv...
28 May 2024 /regulation /crime Exposing Financial Crime
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