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Integrity Viking Funds selects FIS to modernise investment accounting

Integrity Viking Funds selects FIS to modernise investment accounting

Integrity Viking Funds, a fixed income-focused asset manager, has selected FIS Investment Accounting Manager, a cloud-based investment accounting solution from global FinTech firm FIS,...
As cyber activity increasingly spills across borders during geopolitical tensions, insurers face a growing challenge in understanding where exposure sits across their portfolios. When conflicts escalate, cyber risk rarely stays contained to the region where the crisis begins, with attacks, disruption and digital dependencies creating far-reaching consequences.

Managing cyber exposure amid geopolitical conflict

As cyber activity increasingly spills across borders during geopolitical tensions, insurers face a growing challenge in understanding where exposure sits across their portfolios. When...
Hawk and Commerzbank AG team up to fight financial crime

Hawk and Commerzbank team up to fight financial crime

Commerzbank, a major German bank, has announced a strategic collaboration with Hawk, a leading provider of AI-powered anti-fraud and AML technology, to strengthen its...
Commerzbank and Hawk, a provider of anti-fraud and anti-money laundering (AML) technologies, are collaborating to optimize internal banking processes using Artificial Intelligence (AI). The “AML AI Extended Risk Model” solution supplements the bank's existing rule-based compliance systems to significantly increase effectiveness in combating financial crime. This partnership underscores Commerzbank's strategy of deploying AI purposefully for customer and market processes while adapting to specific regulatory requirements. “Given the complexity of the landscape, we can only successfully combat financial crime with the help of AI. It is a high strategic priority for us to proactively and continuously expand our compliance system architecture,” says Viktor Kraus, Cluster Lead Global Financial Crime Prevention Platform at Commerzbank. Tobias Schweiger, CEO of Hawk, emphasizes: “Banks must adapt to new threat scenarios in money laundering. Our AI-driven solution helps achieve this.” By using Hawk's extended risk model solution, banks benefit from complex AI models without the need for time-consuming updates to their existing technology. The software integrates seamlessly with legacy systems via an integration layer. Through this implementation, Commerzbank has: increased the accuracy (targeting) of alerts and reduced false positives, detected more novel cases of money laundering or fraud, and expanded software validation to include robust AI model governance. “Our software enables compliance teams to improve the quality and transparency of money laundering detection and investigations,” says Tobias Schweiger. “In this context, the explainable nature of our AI plays a central role – particularly regarding regulatory approval.” Hans-Georg Beyer, Group Chief Compliance Officer at Commerzbank, adds: “Commerzbank is using its position as a pioneer to conduct its fight against money laundering in an even more targeted manner. The collaboration with Hawk is a vital step in this direction.” About Hawk    Hawk is the leading provider of AI-powered anti-money laundering and fraud prevention technology. Banks and payment providers globally are using Hawk’s powerful combination of traditional rules and explainable AI to improve the effectiveness of their financial crime and compliance programs by identifying more crime, while maximizing efficiency by reducing false positives.

Why KYC is shifting to continuous risk monitoring

The know your customer (KYC) market is undergoing a fundamental structural transformation, according to SymphonyAI, moving away from periodic compliance checks towards AI-driven, continuous...
Non-standard auto insurer Aspire General Insurance has partnered with insurance AI platform Liberate to introduce an AI-powered First Notice of Loss (FNOL) process.

Aspire adopts AI FNOL system with Liberate

Non-standard auto insurer Aspire General Insurance has partnered with insurance AI platform Liberate to introduce an AI-powered First Notice of Loss (FNOL) process. The collaboration is...

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RegTech

Is RegTech consolidation creating new platform risks?

RegTech was built to solve fragmentation in compliance. But as the sector consolidates and platforms expand across surveillance, reporting, identity and risk, a new...
Finastra

Finastra teams with FraudAverse on AI fraud detection

Finastra has partnered with FraudAverse, a financial crime prevention specialist focused on AI-driven fraud detection and risk mitigation. The collaboration aims to strengthen fraud...
Integrity Viking Funds selects FIS to modernise investment accounting

Integrity Viking Funds selects FIS to modernise investment accounting

Integrity Viking Funds, a fixed income-focused asset manager, has selected FIS Investment Accounting Manager, a cloud-based investment accounting solution from global FinTech firm FIS,...
As cyber activity increasingly spills across borders during geopolitical tensions, insurers face a growing challenge in understanding where exposure sits across their portfolios. When conflicts escalate, cyber risk rarely stays contained to the region where the crisis begins, with attacks, disruption and digital dependencies creating far-reaching consequences.

Managing cyber exposure amid geopolitical conflict

As cyber activity increasingly spills across borders during geopolitical tensions, insurers face a growing challenge in understanding where exposure sits across their portfolios. When...
Hawk and Commerzbank AG team up to fight financial crime

Hawk and Commerzbank team up to fight financial crime

Commerzbank, a major German bank, has announced a strategic collaboration with Hawk, a leading provider of AI-powered anti-fraud and AML technology, to strengthen its...

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