Cloud-based Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance The ways financial institutions employ to identify and prevent financial crime are evolving as well. Many organizations use AML cloud computing technologies to develop anti-money laundering solutions and for good reason. The ability to handle AML on the cloud provides businesses with a plenty of new tools in [...]

FATF Blacklists and Greylists FATF blacklist consequences concern many countries. The Financial Action Task Force was established in 1989 to establish international standards in the fight against money laundering, financing of terrorism, and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and to take legal and institutional measures in line with [...]

Sanctions Regime in Turkey Money laundering is one of the most talked-about and on-agenda topics in Turkey, especially in recent years. With the globalization of the world economy, money laundering has become a serious problem that threatens not only Turkey but also all the countries aorund the world. The idea underlying the legal [...]

Countering Terrorism Financing (CTF) The practice of making illegal funds appear to have been earned legitimately is known as money laundering. According to the researches, laundered money from illicit financial activities is estimated between 2-4 billion USD annually, according to the IMF and World Bank. Injecting unlawfully obtained cash into the flow of [...]

High Intensity Financial Crime Area (HIFCA) High Intensity Financial Crime Areas (HIFCA) or High Risk Money Laundering and Related Financial Crime Areas are defined in the United States as the locations that specially pose a high risk of money laundering or financial crime. As the High Intensity Financial Crime Area (HIFCA) programs aim to support [...]

The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) was published by the 2006 CBB and Financial Institutions Law on September 6, 2006 and serves as a public corporate entity. The main responsibilities of the CBB are ensuring the financial and monetary stability of the Kingdom of Bahrain.The predecessor of the Central [...]

2020 AML Fines and Penalties 2020 AML fines and penalties generally includes policies, laws and regulations to prevent financial crimes. AML is a worldwide term for preventing money laundering. There are global and local regulators established in the world to prevent financial crimes, besides each country has a different 2020 AML fines and penalties. Organizations [...]

Kuwait Capital Markets Authority Kuwait Capital Markets AuthorityThe CMA Act created a new independent organization, the Kuwait Capital Markets Authority, which provides a new regulatory framework for establishing CMAs, targets, bases of objectives and bridging the legal gap.The CMA Act is considered to be the most complex legislation enacted in recent Kuwait history. The rudimentary [...]

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance FinTech and InsurTech How Fintechs do AML compliance?Just as all the financial institutions, FinTechs are entitled to comply with the AML regulations as they are faced with the financial crime risks too. Together with the improvements in the technology, the criminal activities in the financial environment started to become more digitalized [...]

Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Regulations The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is the financial intelligence and enforcement agency of the United States Treasury Department. OFAC imposes sanctions about the matters of economy and trade by taking US foreign policy and national security goals as the reference. The sanctions are applied to those [...]