Banks and financial regulators wasting time on AML compliance should consider AI techniques
A new policy brief published by the Brookings Centre on Regulation and Markets has a clear focus on anti-money laundering (AML) compliance and suggests that banks, regulators, and law enforcement authorities are spending time and money chasing down potential leads but not really curbing illicit…
Korea’s Shinhan Bank launches S-TBML to enhance international trade finance competitiveness
South Korea’s Shinhan Bank has introduced a big data-powered anti-money laundering (AML) system in its efforts to detect suspicious trade transactions and become more competitive in the international trade finance market. Shinhan-Trade Based Money Laundering (S-TBML) uses artificial intelligence (AI), optical character recognition (OCR) and…
NFTs are a new way of TBML says top Dutch financial crime investigator
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the financial securities consisting of digital data stored in a blockchain, can be used in trade-based money laundering (TBML) operations according to Niels Obbink, chief and general director of the Fiscal Information and Investigation Service, the Dutch government agency responsible for investigating…
Screena and ThetaRay AI partnership promises faster identification of sanctioned entities and individuals
Cyber security and big data analytics company ThetaRay has entered into a partnership with Screena, a fintech that screens individuals and verifies entities against designated sanction lists. Aimed at financial institutions and governments, the ThetaRay system is designed to identify sophisticated attempts to circumvent economic…
Egmont Group and FATF publish digital transformation report for FIUs and other operational agencies
The Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) have jointly published a report on digital tools used by financial intelligence units (FIUs) and other operational agencies. Digital Transformation of AML/CFT for Operational Agencies: Detection of Suspicious Activities and Analysis…
