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Tech-driven compliance: Insights into sanctions screening and transaction monitoring

Interviews | Digital Identity, Security & Online Fraud | 12 Mar 2024

Adam McLaughlin from Nice Actimize emphasises the crucial distinction financial institutions need to make between efficiency and effectiveness in adopting technology, as compliance goes beyond mere checkbox activities.

compliance, financial crime, financial institutions, transaction monitoring, Sanctions Screening, fintech, data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, risk management

N26 to offer stocks trading in Austria and Germany

News | Cryptocurrencies | 17 Jan 2024

Germany-based online bank N26 has revealed its plans to permit customers in Austria and Germany to trade stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

cryptocurrency, digital assets, online bank, mobile banking

Venezuela terminates petro cryptocurrency programme

News | Cryptocurrencies | 16 Jan 2024

The government of Venezuela has ended the Petro (PTR) cryptocurrency, founded in 2018 to support the nation’s currency due to an overwhelming economic crisis.

cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency exchange, financial sanctions, digital assets

Australian BNPL regulations delayed until 2024

News | Payments General | 01 Dec 2023

The Australian government has announced a delay on its BNPL laws until 2024, due to resourcing pressures on the federal government’s legislative drafting teams. 

BNPL, payments , online payments, digital payments, mobile payments, ecommerce

The growing influence of BigTech companies in payments and financial services

Voice of the Industry | Online Payments | 04 Sep 2023

Tue To, Manager at Edgar, Dunn & Company, dives into the ways in which BigTech giants are reshaping finance, blurring boundaries, and disrupting traditional banking with innovation and embedded financial services.

ecommerce, bigtech, real-time payments, Open Banking, embedded finance, digital payments, banks, BaaS, growth markets, financial services, credit card, e-wallet, fintech, payments

Regtech and IDV M&A and investments in US and Canada

Voice of the Industry | Digital Identity, Security & Online Fraud | 15 Mar 2023

As our previous edition explored the mergers and acquisitions market in Europe, today we turn our attention to the US.

The Paypers Quarterly Analysis series, funding, investment, regtech, identity verification, machine learning, fraud prevention, KYC, AML, blockchain

You better watch out! You better not click! – When cybercriminals want to spoil the holiday season

Voice of the Industry | Digital Identity, Security & Online Fraud | 09 Feb 2023

Scott Augenbaum, Cybercrime Prevention Speaker & Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent, discusses the cyber dangers of the holiday season, emphasizing on Cyber Monday and Cyber Tuesday, some of the busiest times of the year for both merchants and fraudsters.

cybercrime, cybersecurity, scam, online fraud, fraud management, fraud detection, fraud prevention, identity fraud, Black Friday, credit card fraud, payment fraud, debit card, credit card

US-based Metropolitan Bank shuts down crypto arm

News | Cryptocurrencies | 10 Jan 2023

The Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp, the holding company for Metropolitan Commercial Bank, has announced the shutting down of its crypto-asset-related vertical, according to Coin Telegraph.

cryptocurrency, crypto asset, banks, regulation

Wells Fargo fined USD 3.7 bln for illegal activities

News | Digital Identity, Security & Online Fraud | 22 Dec 2022

Federal regulators have fined Wells Fargo a record USD 1.7 billion for ‘widespread mismanagement’ over multiple years that harmed over 16 million consumer accounts.

regulation, banks, payments , scam, financial institutions

FTX is not a crypto failure, but a centralisation failure. Learnings from the FTX collapse

Voice of the Industry | Cryptocurrencies | 29 Nov 2022

Douwe Lycklama, founding partner at INNOPAY, formulates a lucid analysis of the context that lead to the FTX collapse, while detailing the important lessons that the crypto and larger economic market should learn and act on in the coming future. 

cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency exchange, regulation, blockchain, FTT, Bitcoin

Europol provides SWIFT data to CIA

News | Digital Identity, Security & Online Fraud | 08 Jun 2022

Europol has supplied European data from the SWIFT financial transaction system to the US Treasury Department, ending up with the CIA.

data, SWIFT, financial data, transactions , data breaches

Credit Suisse faces USD 45.5 mln money laundering trial

News | Payments General | 01 Feb 2022

Swiss Federal Criminal Court (FCC) has announced Swiss prosecutors are pursuing USD 45.5 million in compensation from Credit Suisse in a money laundering trial due to begin in February.

money laundering, banks, central bank, regulation, transactions

Danske Bank criticised by Sweden's financial regulator

News | Digital Identity, Security & Online Fraud | 21 Oct 2021

Sweden’s financial regulator has slammed Danske Bank for failing to overcome controls failures following a money laundering scandal.

regulation, AML, fraud prevention, money laundering

Credit Suisse fined USD 350 mln over loan scandal

News | Digital Identity, Security & Online Fraud | 20 Oct 2021

Credit Suisse has been fined nearly GBP 350 million by global regulators, pleaded guilty to wire fraud.

payment fraud, regulation, financial services, financial crime, lending

Financial crime – any sign of winning the battle?

Voice of the Industry | Digital Identity, Security & Online Fraud | 10 Sep 2021

With regulators focusing on fighting financial crime, by bringing more accountability and transparency with more stringency on KYC, Verity Snelson from Encompass shares what lessons can be learned from the past

KYC, financial crime, regulation, money laundering, fintech

Trust is hard to gain but easy to lose - a bank's reputation

Voice of the Industry | Digital Identity, Security & Online Fraud | 23 Jun 2021

Customers do not want to keep their money with a bank/financial institution that they do not trust

banks, trust, compliance, AML, KYC, money laundering, regtech

Sydney casinos to make their gaming operations cashless after money laundering scandal

News | Digital Identity, Security & Online Fraud | 13 May 2021

In a bid to stamp out money laundering, The Star and Crown Sydney, Sydney's only two casinos, have announced plans to make their gaming operations cashless.

money laundering, cashless, gambling, banks, AML, debit card

1MDB sues Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, and Coutts

News | Payments General | 11 May 2021

Malaysia-based now-defunct 1MDB state fund has sued subsidiaries of Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, and Coutts to recover billions in alleged losses from a corruption scandal at the fund.

Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, banks, financial institutions

In the light of the Wirecard scandal, Germany to replace BaFin's chief

News | Digital Identity, Security & Online Fraud | 01 Feb 2021

Amid criticism over the BaFin’s, Germany's financial regulator, handling of the Wirecard fraud scandal, the head of Germany's financial regulator will leave his post.

BaFin, Wirecard, fraud, scandal, financial regulator, Germany, payments

The fight against money laundering - 'Legislation alone is not enough'

Voice of the Industry | Digital Identity, Security & Online Fraud | 21 Jan 2021

Financial crimes have a strong impact on society and the economy.

AML, KYC, digital identity, fraud prevention, financial crime, risk management, regtech, identity verification, banks, compliance, virtual asset provider, AI, ML, big data, human trafficking, compliance teams, customer identification, AMLD6