Our focus at ComplyAdvantage has always been to ease the operational burden of AML compliance for our users, by offering a suite of configurable cloud solutions that leverage real-time risk insight. As we move forward, we thought it was about […]
Transaction Monitoring
As financial services integrate with ecommerce technologies, criminals find new ways to exploit online payment infrastructures and disguise their illegal funds. An emerging trend amongst online criminals, transaction laundering represents a digital evolution of traditional money laundering that has, until […]
When financial institutions detect suspicious transactions, it is their duty to report them to the authorities. This is done in order to prevent potential criminal behavior, such as money laundering or the financing of terrorism. In most countries, the reporting […]
The term advisory is misleading. Compliance is about going beyond the minimum standard, so for a company to ignore guidance from an advisory body is misguided at best. Take the Advantage If you disagree just imagine the following scenario. Your […]
Transaction monitoring is challenging. Suspicious activity for one customer is normal business for another. Typologies change constantly, false positives dominate compliance teams’ workflow, and the risk of missing something looms large. Commercial pressures around expansion and rapid growth are at […]
1. Case Management and Audit Trail How easy is it going to be to escalate alerts to more senior staff members, add comments, add attachments and have an audit trail of all activity? Any transaction monitoring system ought to be […]
Transaction monitoring is challenging. Suspicious activity for one customer is normal business for another. Typologies change constantly, false positives dominate compliance teams’ workflow, and the risk of missing something looms large. Commercial pressures around expansion and rapid growth are at […]
Anti-money laundering transaction monitoring, also called AML transaction monitoring, allows banks and other financial institutions to monitor customer transactions on a daily basis or in real-time for risk. By combining this information with analysis of customers’ historical information and account […]
Today, is the deadline for the 4th Money Laundering Directive (4MLD) to be implemented across Europe. As European companies rush to integrate key changes needed for KYC processes such as domestic PEP screening and other due diligence practises we highlight […]
On January 1st 2017 New York State’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) Part 504 went live. This rule provides a clarification on how OFAC and other lists are screened and how transactions are monitored. The impacts of this rule may […]
What is a Currency Transaction Report? When thinking about how financial institutions function, it is crucial to understand the concept and purpose of a currency transaction report, otherwise known as a CTR. A currency transaction report is a report made […]