Tag: risk assessment
Tick-box AML is failing law firms, SRA data shows
Anti-money laundering compliance at law firms can easily become a routine of completed forms. The client is identified, sanctions and PEP screening is done...
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...
Portfolio management sees highest AI adoption among asset managers at 64%
Key views on Impact of automation and AI across asset management functions: Acuity Analytics surveyed around 80 senior asset management representatives across the Americas,...
Risk assessments are missing the channel problem
Financial services once moved through channels that were easy to watch: branches, telephone banking, card networks and conventional payment rails. Compliance teams could monitor...
Legacy risk models can’t keep up with modern crime
Financial crime has evolved faster in the last five years than in the previous two decades, yet many institutions are still assessing risk with...
AI is moving closer to the risk decision, but can...
Artificial intelligence is no longer limited to automating simple, repetitive compliance and risk tasks. Across financial services, firms are increasingly using AI to conduct...
Bet365’s AML failures trigger enforceable undertaking
Australian regulator AUSTRAC has compelled bet365 to sign a court-enforceable undertaking after uncovering serious gaps in how the online bookmaker assesses money laundering risk...
Cytora and GeoX AI partner to boost property risk data
Cytora, a digital risk processing platform, has partnered with GeoX AI, a specialist in geo data and property intelligence, to embed a broader range...
Why FinTech’s best controls fail quietly, not loudly
Corlytics' latest Global Enforcement Report has surfaced an uncomfortable pattern: the organisations most often hit with regulatory enforcement rarely lacked controls altogether.
According to Corlytics,...
Why spreadsheets are the MLRO’s biggest hidden risk
There comes a point in every MLRO's tenure when it becomes impossible to ignore that the organisation has outgrown its manual, Excel-based financial crime...










