Why Do Crypto Currencies Need AML (Anti-Money Laundering) Regulations?

By |2023-08-09T17:25:27+03:00September 1st, 2022|

Why Do Crypto Currencies Need AML (Anti-Money Laundering) Regulations? Worth of crypto and its use for money laundering The number of cryptocurrencies that are actively exchanged is approximately 20,000 and it gets bigger each day as new cryptocurrencies continue to pop up in the market. The highest total value of all the [...]

Updated Sanctions against Russia

By |2023-08-09T17:27:32+03:00June 30th, 2022|

Updated Sanctions against Russia Updated Sanctions against Russia  Russia’s invasion over Ukraine resulted in the country facing new financial, trade and technology sanctions for the purpose of cutting off the financing of the war. Since Russia is a leading energy producer with its oil and gas sources, imposing sanctions against Russia and [...]

Pros and Cons of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) in Cross Border money transfers

By |2023-08-09T17:29:46+03:00April 29th, 2022|

Pros and Cons of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) in Cross Border money transfers Central bank digital currencies are digital tokens issued by a central bank that is comparable to bitcoin. They are based on the value of the country's fiat currency. CBDCs are being developed in several nations, and some have [...]

Benefits of Payment Pre-validation in Cross-border Transactions

By |2023-08-09T17:30:08+03:00February 28th, 2022|

Benefits of Payment Pre-validation in Cross-border Transactions The financial messaging service provider, SWIFT, introduced a new financial service called Payment Pre-validation in July 2021 that improves cross-border real-time payment validation by minimizing frictions, verifying the information beforehand, and reducing the cost stemming from errors or misinformation. The real-time API-based system of Payment [...]

4 AML Trends to Follow Up in 2022

By |2022-01-31T15:52:20+03:00January 31st, 2022|

4 AML Trends to Follow Up in 2022 2021 was a challenging year for the financial industry in terms of the increasing threats of financial crimes and the expanding scope of the regulatory requirements. As a result, the focus of the regulatory bodies was on the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance and how [...]

Opportunities and Challenges of New Technologies for AML/CFT

By |2023-08-09T17:32:47+03:00November 29th, 2021|

Opportunities and Challenges of New Technologies for AML/CFT The new and innovative methods, procedures and technologies are being developed constantly for the purpose of the successful, effective and up-to-date implementation of AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and CFT (Combatting the Financing of Terrorism) requirements. Recently, on November 26th, 2021 I was a panel speaker for [...]

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