Will China’s cashless society change the banking system?
Will China’s cashless society change the banking system? Asia's move towards a cashless society More than half of the world's millennials, who are getting more and more tech-savvy every day, are living in Asia. So, the technological improvements, high smartphone usage, and other structural aspects like demographics and urbanization coming together created a suitable [...]
SWIFT Regional Conference: Turkey & Middle East
SWIFT Regional Conference: Turkey & Middle East SWIFT Regional Conference brought together more than 250 policymakers, industry leaders, regulators, and financial experts from this diverse region of Istanbul to do business and shape the future of the financial sector. The two-day program was a mix of keynote speeches, interactive panel sessions, and practical [...]
Open API Framework in the Banking Landscape: Threat or Opportunity?
Open API Framework in the Banking Landscape: Threat or Opportunity? To keep pace with the technological developments, to comply with the new regulations, and to remain competitive in the finance industry, banks must find digital partners to innovate and redefine their ways of working. The regulations started to demand the transition to a more [...]
The Best of SIBOS 2019 London
Fineksus at SIBOS 2019 Featuring more than 11,000 delegates, 600 speakers and 300 exhibitors, Sibos 2019 London was the largest and most ambitious Sibos to date. As Fineksus we had a great event with our visitors in our stand. The main topics of SIBOS are about SWIFT gpi, processing of Data Science, [...]
Fineksus and Neterium partner for AI-driven AML
Fineksus and Neterium partner for AI-driven AML For years, banks and regulated entities have been using solutions designed in the last decade, with low efficiency having a devastating effect on compliance costs, and only a marginal real impact on illegal activity. The current technology stack, including machine learning, standard APIs and cloud deployment, allows [...]
Compliance Day Istanbul 2019
Compliance Day Istanbul 2019 Here you can find a brief summary of our Compliance Day Istanbul 2019 event. Compliance for Fintech After the opening speech, the first session started with our speakers: Tarik Tombul, Erdost Pehlivan, Ufuk Sinel and Fatma Atila. They discussed Fintech compliance. Tarik Tombul explained that the compliance process was introduced [...]
Cloud Adoption in Financial Messaging Services
Cloud Adoption in Financial Messaging Services Why adopt the cloud? The fact that the financial services facing serious problems with the rise of digitalization and the new and different needs coming with it naturally drive them to find a solution to help them adapt to this new environment which is the cloud computing. Before [...]
Achieving Standardization in KYC (Know Your Customer) Compliance
Achieving Standardization in KYC (Know Your Customer) Compliance What is KYC? KYC (Knowing Your Customer) is the process that is designed to identify the clients of a business and evaluating their profiles for the compatibility to prevent any illegal transactions. KYC is commonly used in bank regulations for financial crimes and especially in anti-money [...]
How AI Impacts AML and KYC Compliance
How AI Impacts AML and KYC Compliance Anti-money laundering (AML) is one of the toughest issues in the financial industry today. Because the amount of money coming from criminal acts as terrorism and drug trafficking has reached nearly to $2.4 trillion per year. And this money will be laundered [...]
Ultimate Guide To Choose The Best Financial Messaging Solution
Ultimate Guide To Choose The Best Financial Messaging Solution Every business’ sustainability depends on the reliable and secure exchange of money. In this case, financial institutions stand as the gatekeepers as being responsible for providing transparency and security, especially during international transactions. This mission brings financial institutions a great challenge and [...]
How AI Helps Banks On AML Compliance
How AI Helps Banks On AML Compliance Anti-money laundering (AML) is defined as a set of regulations and procedures designed to prevent criminals from concealing illegally obtained funds as legal income. AML laws cover a relatively limited number of transactions and criminal acts with great indications. However today the [...]
How to Build Fintech AML Compliance
How to Build Fintech AML Compliance Every financial technology (Fintech) start-up has its own core focus on answering a problem in the financial industry. However, after starting the company, the focus begins to get distracted as many other problems about running a business begin to occur. Instead of focusing on improving the product, [...]
5 Things to Know About Secure Financial Messaging Services
5 Things to Know About Secure Financial Messaging Services Correspondent banks are a key player in the global economy. They enable and improve the liquidity of currency, which is one of the fundamental factors in economic growth. Moving money around the world is not only beneficial for the economy, but it’s also a good [...]
SWIFT Standard Changes 2019
SWIFT Standard Changes 2019 SWIFT is a messaging format that allows banks, financial institutions to communicate by sending electronic messages. Every year, SWIFT collects the changes requested by its users, prepares and evaluates them with the technical and business consultants, and then publishes them in their SWIFT Standards Release Guide. This year, the [...]
How the Financial Services Industry Can Respond to the Regulatory Spotlight
How the Financial Services Industry Can Respond to the Regulatory Spotlight The financial services companies are innovating the whole financial industry, from increasing the speed of services to offering more added value to customers. However, they don’t operate independently of the circumstances that affect traditional financial institutions. In many countries, financial services companies [...]
How to Create a Culture of Compliance
How to Create a Culture of Compliance Compliance is quickly becoming a topic of great importance in the fintech industry and financial institutions as it becomes clear how dire the consequences of non-compliance can be. Since the financial crisis alone, banks have paid over $204 bn in fines. As such, the frequent model [...]
Correspondent Banking in the New World Order
Correspondent Banking in the New World Order Banks are probably the oldest and most solid institutions in the finance industry. They are perceived as the foundation for economic growth and stability (or at least the role they play is essential). This has led them to become the most dominant players in the finance [...]
How Fineksus Manages Real-time Payment Schemes
How Fineksus Manages Real-time Payment Schemes What SWIFT Offers Established in 1973, SWIFT or Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications is a cooperative that provides safe and secure financial transactions between the financial institutions that are a part of the network. Before the SWIFT, the only way to conduct international transactions was [...]
Preventing Compliance Risks During Customer Onboarding
Preventing Compliance Risks During Customer Onboarding Know your customer, otherwise known as Know Your Client (KYC), is the name of the methods conducted by a bank or financial company to verify the identity of their clients. This allows them to evaluate the risks (or if there are any risks) of implementing a business relationship [...]
SWIFT Corporate Forum 2019 was Held in Dubai
SWIFT Corporate Forum 2019 was Held in Dubai Supporting corporates achieving their optimisation goals, SWIFT Corporate Forum was held in Dubai on 4 March this year. Many attendees took part in the payments ecosystem including treasurers, members of the corporate finance departments and various other actors were present in the event to share [...]
Cross-Border Payments, New Models and the Future
Cross-Border Payments, New Models and the Future As time progresses and new industries or business models emerge, the old methods are struggling to find their place in the new world. The primary propulsion behind these changes is technology. Another one is demanding customers, constantly pushing financial institutions to be faster and accurate. While [...]
AML Compliance Issues and Trends in 2019
AML Compliance Issues and Trends in 2019 Anti-money laundering (AML) has always been an issue for the finance sector. But as the political stances change, strategic partnerships emerge and break, it is becoming an increasingly complicated matter. In the past, AML departments in banks were comprised of one or two staff members or they [...]
Insider Threat and Cyber Security Issues in the Financial Industry
Insider Threat and Cyber Security Issues in the Financial Industry Finance industry depends heavily on data. Well, nowadays almost all companies rely on data to some extent, but finance companies literally live on data. This is why protecting their data is crucial to not only their security but also their existence. This makes [...]
How Fintechs Can Deal With Regulatory Compliance
How Fintechs Can Deal With Regulatory Compliance Today we live in a global ecosystem where technological advances are imposing a brand new order. Changing customer demands, open source softwares, free-to-use services are all driving significant change in the way products and services are being created and delivered. As barriers of entry seem to be [...]
How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming AML and KYC Compliance
How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming AML and KYC Compliance It’s been a turbulent year for anti-money laundering (AML) compliance in big financial institutions. We were bombarded with media headlines in a seemingly never-ending wave of scandals: “Dutch bank ING fined $900 million for failing to spot money laundering” — Reuters “Australia's biggest bank [...]