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The arrival of instant payment schemes like SEPA Instant Credit Transfers and services such as FedNow has reshaped the payments landscape. In the EU alone, real-time payment transactions are projected to reach 34.2 billion by 2027, up from 13.2 billion…
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For most regulated financial institutions (FIs), payment screening is the sanctions interception layer of the compliance program. It checks the parties to a payment against global sanctions lists at the moment of execution and blocks anything that matches. Recent regulation…
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The introduction of new regulations and real-time payment rails has created challenges for cross-border payments firms looking to grow their business. The payments industry in the UK is adjusting to the new reality of APP fraud reimbursement, while in Europe,…
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Despite being the second-smallest country in Europe, Monaco is considered a major international banking center. It is not a member of the European Union but uses the euro through a monetary union with France that was established in April 1945.…
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The October 2024 Plenary meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in Paris, led by President Elisa de Anda Madrazo, concluded with several critical updates for compliance professionals, including: Completion of the FATF’s fourth evaluation cycle. Changes to the…
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The first recorded use of sanctions was in 432 BC, and while they’ve only been commonly used in their current form for several decades, the fundamentals of how they’re applied haven’t changed. Yet technological advances have reshaped the world around…
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Money launderers and those involved in other types of financial crime often leverage businesses to channel and disguise the proceeds of crime. To protect themselves and comply with regulations, businesses must understand and implement the core principles of anti-money laundering…
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Named by the Council of Europe as one of the most recurrent predicate offenses of money laundering, corruption is considered one of the greatest threats to economic development and good governance. For this reason, it was also listed as a…
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In February 2024, the European Parliament issued new regulations to ensure financial transactions reach their recipients instantly across the European Union. The new rules update certain regulatory requirements for banks and other types of payment service providers (PSPs). In addition…
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