This article was first published in the NJ Bankers Magazine. For years now, financial institutions have had to focus on the prevention of money laundering. Then in 2001, after the attack on 9/11 and the passage of the USA PATRIOT ACT (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) […]
Anti-Money Laundering Controls Failing to Detect Terrorists, Cartels, and Sanctioned States
Originally published on www.reuters.com Here. Regulators are holding financial institutions responsible for the real-life consequences of anti-money laundering (AML) failures. Firms must reconfigure their transaction monitoring programs to identify the emergent, multi-dimensional money laundering and terrorist financing methods that are defeating today’s rules-based detection scenarios. Adopting an actor-centric hybrid threat finance (HTF) model can cut […]