Attention will focus on a much-trailed new body: the EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) – totemic of a tougher and better co-ordinated EU approach, as we wrote last year.
Financial technology leader FIS today announced the first in a new series of solutions developed in partnership with C3 AI to help capital markets firms tap into the power of their organizational data to increase efficiency and better manage regulatory compliance and risk.
The FCA alleges that increasingly large cash deposits were made into the customer’s accounts. It is alleged that around £365 million was paid into the customer’s accounts, of which around £264 million was in cash.
It is easy to see why, in the context of the UK, such a law may be needed. Of the more than 460,000 Suspicious Activity Reports sent by UK banks to the UK Financial Intelligence Unit in recent years for suspicious transactions, the government’s Law Commission concluded that many were of “low-quality” and that many banks had a poor understanding of their reporting obligations, reporting less to assist the authorities than to avoid a law suit.
“US authorities have dominated the global AML landscape through the imposition of numerous huge fines for AML failings. But that has changed somewhat in recent years - US fine amounts have fallen while other jurisdictions, particularly in Europe, have imposed very large fines of their own,” explains Duff & Phelps’ head of UK regulatory consulting Nick Bayley.
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