Reports suggest UK universities unknowingly facilitate money laundering, a UN Commission report spotlights international financial system failures, and the UAE takes a major step in combating money laundering.
APAC takes centre stage as HK$8 billion is laundered through Hong Kong, Crown Resorts expect further investigations, and the Philippines is set to introduce a new money laundering framework.
As we return to work after the Chinese New Year break, I’ve had time to reflect on Napier’s APAC journey so far, including who we are today and who we strive to be.
A $2 shell company helped laundered millions of dollars, North Korean hackers find a way to fund the regime and Mastercard is set to allow crypto payments.
Our Chief Operating Officer Greg Watson and Chief AI Officer Luca Primerano had the pleasure of speaking at the AML & FinCrime Tech Forum hosted by FinTech Global.
We had the pleasure of bringing together an incredible group of women in our webinar dedicated to looking at the current challenges facing the world of compliance.
Earlier this month, our CEO Julian Dixon was invited to chat to Claus Christensen, CEO and co-founder of Know Your Customer, as part of its regular RegTalks series.
Technological advances combined with important ethical and moral considerations have helped ensure the best AI-powered AML systems are now highly explainable and therefore simple for data analysts to use.
China triples their AML related fines in 2020, Australian banks come in second for the highest value of fines and Deutsche Bank enters and ends another scandal.
6AMLD is the EU’s most comprehensive regulation yet in the fight against money laundering. It gives authorities more power to prosecute and it heaves more responsibility on to businesses to comply.
Computers are amazing at doing dull, repetitive tasks. They’re also great at being precise. Since we humans are terrible at doing dull tasks and quite bad at being precise, this makes us a match made in heaven.
With the changing role of technology, it is only natural that the role of the analyst must evolve too. In this blog we review the role of the compliance analyst.
Britain and the US take major steps in combating financial crime related to shell companies, and FATF releases a report on trade-based money laundering.
Our Chief Data Scientist Janet Bastiman discusses how to use AI to analyse customer behaviour and identify financial crime in the midst of a global pandemic.
European countries come together to fight money mules, JPMorgan and Standard Chartered helped move a con man’s money and Cash Converters falls into AUSTRAC’s sights.
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