Tag: PEP Screening

False positives threaten to overwhelm AML compliance

Financial crime is evolving at speed, and artificial intelligence is once again the driving force. Fraudsters are using AI to build ever more convincing...

Duna: deterministic rules are the key to bank-grade AI

Financial institutions racing to embed AI into their compliance operations face a stubborn problem: the technology does not always give the same answer twice....

The AML risk hiding beyond sanctions screening

A customer can clear sanctions and politically exposed person (PEP) checks while still presenting risks that structured screening does not identify. A company director...

Can adverse media catch risk watchlists miss?

Financial crime does not wait to be listed. Money laundering, corruption, human trafficking and fraud can attach themselves to a customer, supplier or counterparty...

Poor adverse media screening is fuelling AML false positives

Adverse media screening is too often treated as a box-ticking obligation rather than a genuine early-warning system, and that mindset is leaving financial institutions...

The compliance blind spot lurking in PEP lists

Politically Exposed Person (PEP) screening is the process compliance teams use to determine whether a customer, counterparty or beneficial owner holds a public position...

Why static fraud rules are failing growing FinTechs

Static, rule-based fraud detection is becoming a liability for growing FinTechs, flagging legitimate customers as often as it catches genuine criminals. According to SmartSearch,...

AI cuts KYC drudgery, but who keeps the final call?

KYC and AML compliance work absorbs enormous analyst time, yet most of that time isn't spent on genuine judgment calls. It's spent wrangling documents,...

The screening gap regulators expect you to close

Compliance teams often treat sanctions screening, PEP screening and adverse media screening as interchangeable checkboxes on an onboarding form. They are not. Each layer addresses...

PEP screening pitfalls that expose FinTech compliance teams

A politically exposed persons check (PEP check) sits among the most consequential controls in any AML compliance programme. Done well, it surfaces elevated risk...

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