How to detect commonly used Trade-Based Money Laundering (TBML) Techniques? What does Trade-based Money Laundering (TBML) mean? Trade-based Money Laundering (TBML) is defined as the use of trade activities and transactions to transfer illicit cash of big quantities into legitimized or -in some cases- less suspicious commodities in order to avoid financial transparency regulations. [...]
How SWIFT gpi reduces cross-border payment times to minutes, even seconds? SWIFT has launched its global payments innovation (gpi) initiative in 2017 and since then almost 60% of all cross-border money transfers on SWIFT are sent via SWIFT gpi. The payments industry showed great interest in the advantages gpi offered in terms of pace, [...]
8 Compliance Trends That Shaped the Future of Financial Environment in 2020 The financial compliance requirements are among most important fields in the financial ecosystem as it is seen as the main source in maintaining public trust in the banking system. Together with the technological developments and digitalization trends, the risks and the threats [...]
Top 5 Innovations in the Payments Landscape You Should Know by the End of 2020 The notions of interoperability, harmonization, transparency and unification have been popular in financial payments and messaging standards in 2020. As technological developments evolve and offer so many advantages for the businesses in every field, the financial ecosystem has had [...]
Achieving a Unified Payments Landscape with Payments Hub A unified payments system: Payments Hub Platform The payments eco-system has been struggling with the challenges related to increasing volumes of payments and customer expectations as well as the new innovative developments in the payments atmosphere that caused fragmentation and complexity eventually. The currently used payments [...]
Real-Time Payments: Re-defining the Payments Landscape The real-time payments system is a money transfer innovation that offers instantaneous payments, real-time communication, ubiquity and extensive data transfer between banks and banking systems. Payments can be made and received 24/7, 365 days including holidays and weekends. Together with the rapid improvements in mobile technology and digital [...]
Distributed Ledger Technology and Blockchain: Potentials and Challenges Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is a new method of data validation that does not require a trusted authority and it enables to record, share and synchronize data across a distributed network of data stores and participants in a transparent way. Distributed ledgers (DLs) simply refer to [...]
Open Banking Framework in the Age of Digitalization Open Banking and the API Open Banking is defined as the secure method for businesses and consumers to exchange data in return for receiving faster payment-related or other innovative banking services by the new or already existing companies. It promises to revolutionize the whole system of [...]
Updates on RTGS Renewal Programme The Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) service is defined as the infrastructure which holds accounts for the banks, building societies and other institutions by offering a final and risk-free settlement via real-time money transfers among these accounts. In the economy of the United Kingdom, this service has a crucial place [...]
Compliance Challenges for Financial Institutions in the ‘New Normal’ The ‘new normal’ in the financial framework The effects of COVID-19 in the financial world reflected themselves in the operational as well as the regulatory side. As the limitations in the on-location business and travel restrictions appeared in the face of the pandemic, it has [...]
