Explore the new Trade AML demo 🔎
Trade-based money laundering is becoming increasingly complex Criminals hide behind complex patterns of collusion which traditional transactional monitoring (TM) systems are unequipped to identify systematically. To stay one step ahead and effectively fight crime, financial institutions need to upgrade their AML technology to be able to examine social connections and understand transactions in the context of a wider network. This interactive demo explores how exactly Quantexa's Decision Intelligence Platform enables AML teams to identify and investigate highly complex TBML cases. Launch the Trade AML Demo
📣 Announcing Our Upcoming Webinar: Tips & Tricks for Managing Large and Complex Networks 📣
We’re excited to announce our upcoming session based on the very popular article Tips & Tricks for Managing Large and Complex Networks by . In this session, Stacey will team up with , Head of Product Design, and , Head of AML Solutions, to delve into practical strategies and new functionalities that simplify the complexities of working with large-scale networks, ensuring you can harness their full potential. To make this webinar as relevant and valuable as possible, we want to hear from you! Submit your questions ahead of time to ensure we cover the topics that matter most to you. Get Involved: Share Your Questions: What specific challenges do you face when managing large or complex networks? Are there any network features you'd like more clarity on? Highlight Your Interests: Are there particular techniques or features from Stacey’s article that you'd like to explore further during the session? Let us know! How to Submit Your Questions & Topics: Comment Below: Drop your questions or areas of interest in the comments ⬇️ Suggestion Box: Alternatively, submit your thoughts via our Community Suggestion Box. Community Suggestion Box Help us make the Community better! Let us know if there is anything that would improve your experience on the Quantexa Community. What's Next: We'll be collecting your questions over the next few weeks, so don’t miss your chance to contribute! Stay tuned for the official session announcement and invitation. We can't wait to see you there!
Uplifting sanctions/export controls and breaking anonymity
A Canadian national and a New York resident pleaded guilty this week to conspiracy to commit export control violations for their roles in a global procurement scheme on behalf of sanctioned Russian companies. Some of the electronic components shipped by the defendants were later found in seized Russian weapons platforms and signals intelligence equipment in Ukraine. According to the court documents, the defendants allegedly conspired to ship more than $7 million in dual-use US electronics to sanctioned Russian companies, shipping the components through front companies in several countries, including Turkey, India, China, and the United Arab Emirate, from where they were subsequently rerouted to Russia. As this and other similar cases highlight, sanctioned parties and organized criminal networks are growing more sophisticated and aligned in their techniques every day. 🔦 Breaking anonymity and overcoming obfuscation remains critical The illicit usage of Shell/Front Companies, transactions and shipments to non-sanctioned countries and entities, the presence of underlying collusion etc. have all made risk management in this space increasingly difficult. This has put an unnecessary burden on frequently separate investigation and analyst teams within financial institutions to gather data and make the connections. However, by bringing together internal and external KYC, AML and Sanctions data, intelligence and processes, Quantexa enables the comprehensive contextual monitoring of customers and counterparties throughout their entire lifecycle. This allows institutions to better identify and manage holisticrisk, inclusive of sanctions and the presence of evasion techniques, including the illicit usage of shell companies, professional enablers and gatekeepers. To see how technology, combined with better data sources and focused typologies have changed the way institutions can break through the anonymity so essential for sanctions risk management, please reach out or take a look at the below. ➡Breaking Anonymity Through AI: Sanctions, Shell Companies and Scandals (webinar on-demand) ➡Navigating Secondary Sanctions Risk: The Heightened Need to Mitigate Indirect Exposure (blog) ➡New FinCEN Advisory: Counter the Financing of Iran-Backed Terrorist Organizations (blog) ➡Navigating Global Sanctions: Technology Solutions for Asia-Pacific Compliance Challenges (blog)Join the Conversation: Highlights from Solution & Industry User Groups 💬
Did you miss out on the latest discussions in our Financial Crime, Insurance, KYC and Data Management Specialist User Groups? Here's what you might have missed: Join a group to stay up to date: 💵 Financial Crime 🛡️ Insurance 🙋♀️ KYC - Know Your Customer 💻 Data ManagementA Roadmap to Resilience: How Banks Can Leverage AI to Advance AML Capabilities
Pleased to share my latest article in The International Banker on how regulated entities can maximise their Compliance programme investment in AI - starting with getting their data in the best possible shape to inform any downstream model or process. You can find the article here:https://internationalbanker.com/technology/a-roadmap-to-resilience-how-banks-can-leverage-ai-to-advance-aml-capabilities/Don't miss our new 'A day in the life of... an Investigator' series 🔎
Did you know we've recently added a new section for investigators to our A day in the life… series? Check out the series (login required) to read about a typical day of some of the best investigators using Quantexa, as well as some of their top investigation success stories. Interested in contributing your story? Let us know at community@quantexa.com
A Tale of Two Investigations: Transforming Financial Crime Risk Monitoring and Investigations
The adoption of technologies to enhance financial crime risk monitoring has become ubiquitous within the banking sector. These technologies span a spectrum, ranging from the automation of fairly binary controls to the deployment of black-box Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. Regulators are increasingly advocating for organizations to embrace technological advancements in their fight against financial crime, as exemplified by: FCA, MAS, HKMA all have RegTech support initiatives with digital sandboxes to promote solutions to complex regulatory challenges; MAS provides RegTech grants for Singapore based FIs looking to enhance their risk management and compliance functions with the use of technological solutions; HKMA’s recent AML Regtech: Network Analytics report promotes the adoption of network analytics capability to strengthen the response of banks’ anti-money laundering (AML) systems to deception and other financial crimes. In addition to improving risk identification, many solutions are dedicated to enhancing the actual investigation process by eliminating manual, historically time-consuming and inconsistent steps such as data collation or narrative production for SAR/STR filing. These solutions hold significant appeal as they can streamline resources while maintaining comprehensive risk coverage. The benefits of risk mitigation and operational optimization offered by such tools are widely recognized and discussed. However, what is less frequently discussed is the need to transform the underlying investigative process itself. The most cutting-edge tools may fall short of their full potential if they are not accompanied by process innovations. Transformative technologies demand transformative approaches, that often includes a cultural and mindset shift, as well as a technical one. To illustrate this point, let's examine a financial crime case study through two different investigative lenses and how they can lead to materially different outcomes:Check out the latest content from our Specialist User Groups!
The Quantexa Specialist User Groups provide opportunities to network and join industry and solution focused conversations! Check out the latest content from our Data Management, Financial Crime, Insurance, and KYC groups below. All Investigations are created equal…right? by Decision Intelligence is the Key To Stopping Modern Slavery And Human Trafficking by Advancing Correspondent Banking Insights: Identification of non-customer entities by The changing shape of fraud in the UK market - ABI Fraud Statistics by TransUnion: Synthetic Identity Fraud Growing to Record Levels by If you haven’t already why not join a user group today: 💻 Data Management Open the door to a truly connected view across all your data assets from across internal and external sources, improve data quality, build applications, and take control of master data. 💵 Financial Crime Unlock value in order to make smarter and more informed risk and intelligence-based decisions. 🔍 KYC- Know Your Customer Shift back to the core purpose of KYC in understanding the risk associated with prospects, customers and their related activity across the life cycle. 🛡️ Insurance Brings together all things to do with insurance at Quantexa and looks to enable customers, partners, colleagues and insurance thought leaders to share expertise. ❗️If you have a suggestion for another Specialist User Group you would like to see, please comment below 😊 Find more of the best content from across the Community in our monthly digest: What Happened on the Quantexa Community in AugustCheck out the latest content from our Specialist User Groups!
The Quantexa Specialist User Groups provide opportunities to network and join industry, and solution focused conversations! Check out the latest content from our Data Management, Financial Crime, Insurance, and KYC groups below. If you haven’t already why not join a user group today? 💻 Data Management Open the door to a truly connected view across all your data assets from across internal and external sources, improve data quality, build applications, and take control of master data. What is Entity Quality? By The Power of “Contextually Connected Entities” for Maximising Decision Intelligence – Online Webinar 💵 Financial Crime Unlock value in order to make smarter and more informed risk and intelligence-based decisions. Laundering the proceeds of crime through underground banking schemes & the importance of context By 🔍 KYC- KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER Focus on unlocking the potential in your data, operations and network to move away from the heavy processes and enable a shift back to the core purpose of KYC in understanding the risk associated with prospects, customers and their related activity across the life cycle. Work your way through an Enhance Due Diligence use case in Quantexa's AML Investigator themed course by 🛡️ Insurance Brings together all things to do with insurance at Quantexa and looks to enable customers, partners, colleagues and insurance thought leaders to share expertise Why are some insurance companies pulling out of high-risk areas like Florida and California? by Perspectives on the impact to insurers of the consumer duty act in the UK by ❗️If you have a suggestion for another Specialist User Group you would like to see, please comment below 😊
