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Nasdaq Verafin provides Fraud Detection and Management, AML/CFT Compliance and Management, High-Risk Customer Management, Sanctions Screening and Management, and Information Sharing solutions.

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Improving your risk-based CDD with intelligent categorization

April 17, 2018 by Nasdaq Verafin

2018 updates to Customer Due Diligence requirements have increased regulatory emphasis on how BSA/AML departments must conduct ongoing customer due diligence. The FFIEC BSA/AML Examination Manual states that AML programs, at a minimum, are required to implement: appropriate risk-based procedures... 

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Optimizing high-risk customer management and ongoing due diligence

March 20, 2018 by Nasdaq Verafin

An already challenging BSA/AML compliance risk environment continues to grow in complexity, as financial institutions seek to meet requirements for due diligence on higher-risk categories of customers. Without question, risk management is at the forefront of today’s regulatory scrutiny. In... 

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Building momentum in the fight against human trafficking

January 9, 2018 by Nasdaq Verafin

Throughout 2017 awareness of human trafficking as a modern human tragedy — orchestrated by criminal organizations on a global scale — continued to grow. Equally important, there was an increased recognition of the vital role financial crime investigators at financial... 

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Unmasking online account takeover

December 19, 2017 by Nasdaq Verafin

The intersection of fraud and online banking accounts continues to be big business. With our dependence on smart phones and as the Internet continues to seemingly expand into every aspect of our lives, criminals are fashioning masks molded from stolen... 

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Industry alert: NACHA warns of risks in C2C ACH Debits

November 28, 2017 by Nasdaq Verafin

NACHA has turned the risk spotlight on Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C — also known as Account-to-Account (A2A) or Peer-to-Peer (P2P)) debit payments again. Over the past six months we have seen a steady flow of warnings within the industry about the dangers... 

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Finding fraud in fallback transactions

November 20, 2017 by Nasdaq Verafin

Fallback transactions pose a significant danger to financial institutions (FIs) and are something criminals will lean on more heavily as the adoption of chip-enabled cards continues to gather pace. A fallback transaction is the swiping of a chip-enabled card at... 

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Beneficial Ownership FAQs

November 14, 2017 by Nasdaq Verafin

A lot of digital ink has been spilled concerning the collection of Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) information. Most of the buzz around the FinCEN’s final rule on Customer Due Diligence (CDD) Requirements for Financial Institutions, since it was introduced, rests... 

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Beneficial Ownership: 5 Key Compliance Obligations

August 14, 2017 by Nasdaq Verafin

For many years, financial crime investigators have warned of possible links between shell companies and international money laundering activity. In the 2013 report How Shell Companies Aid Terrorism, Crime and Corruption, the Open Society Foundations discussed how shell companies are used to launder billions... 

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No Jackpot: Recognizing Lottery Scam Activity

August 14, 2017 by Nasdaq Verafin

Congratulations! You’ve won the lottery! Wait. How have you won a lottery you don’t remember entering? Who cares! It’s a lot of money, right? Unfortunately, not in this case. There’s a catch… there’s always a catch. This is a variation... 

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Four key indicators for uncovering fraud in your loan charge-offs

August 1, 2017 by Nasdaq Verafin

Auto loan fraud is a hot topic. Given the potential size of the problem, it is hardly surprising. At the Barclays Global Financial Services Conference in September 2016, JPMorgan Chase provided insight into the state of auto lending risk. In...