Broadening the scope of AML

Preparing for the European Union Sixth Money Laundering Directive Anti-money laundering (AML) law is constantly evolving. And necessarily so, given the increasingly sophisticated methods and technologies that criminals and terrorists use to move illegally earned funds...

Money laundering: Trade patents, a new tool for bringing back unaccounted wealth

"People who own patents in India are suddenly in demand - in many cases not because of the value of their inventions that may be worthless, but as a conduit to launder money. There have been many cases in recent months where patent owners made millions by selling...

Sanction Screening the Intensive Care Patient…Innovation the Cure!

However, minor the task of sanction screening or name filtering sounds it contributes to a significant amount of false positives and is a time consuming task that leaves less time for other AML patients. And in today’s environment of tighter AML regulations,...

Need to launder money? Take control of a Bank that’s what these criminals did

"The term “follow the money” was made famous during Watergate and is paradigm for many AML/CTF laws that require financial institutions and others such as the remittance industry to apply know your customer rules to the onboarding of new customers, establish a...

Effective staff training is vital to ensuring a successful AML framework but regional inconsistencies exisit.

The financial services industry worldwide is challenged to respond to increased and a changing regulatory AML landscape. AML as a standalone entity under compliance, to a complex and much broader function cutting across many entities as legal, risk, operations, sales...