Adverse Media

12 Lessons from One Trillion Screens

As a pioneer in compliance screening, RDC has now carried out over one trillion screens for more than 1,000 banks, financial institutions, FinTechs and Fortune 500 companies. Designing and optimising a customer due diligence program isn’t easy, so RDC is here to help. Based on our experience with more than…

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Making Negative News a Positive For Fintech Companies

Adverse media, or negative news, is an important component in the anti-money laundering (AML) programmes of many banks and large financial institutions, despite not being a regulatory requirement in the US, UK or EU. But can the same be said of fintech companies? And how successful have compliance teams found…

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New FinTech Survey Report Reveals the Importance of Adverse Media Screening

64% of fintech compliance professionals say adverse media screening should be a regulatory requirement in report by the FinTech FinCrime Exchange (FFE) and Regulatory DataCorp (RDC). New York and London – December 4, 2018 – Regulatory Datacorp (RDC) and the FinTech FinCrime Exchange (FFE) revealed the findings of a new…

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Improving the Impact of Adverse Media Screening For FinTech Companies

The accelerating flow of news has presented both opportunities and challenges for risk and compliance professionals looking to utilise adverse media for customer screening. On the one hand, adverse media is an expansive source that can help surface potential criminals not found in traditional PEP and sanctions lists. On the…

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The Role of Customer Screening in the Modern Customer Identification Program

This paper builds on our previous whitepaper, “Financial Crime: Can We Win the War?” and drills into customer screening and its fit within an overall Customer Identification Program (CIP) and how it is a vital element in the fight against financial crime. You will learn: What is the Customer Screening…

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Financial Crime: Can We Win the War?

If the global financial system is threatened, we all suffer the consequences. This has been a constant theme throughout history, most recently with the 2008 financial crisis. Today, one of the most urgent and fastest-growing threats to the system comes from financial crime. It is not a new phenomenon: corruption and crime are as old as human…

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Using Natural Language Processing to Interpret Risk-Relevant Content

Every day, hundreds of thousands of news stories are published online. At the same time, governments and agencies constantly update and refine their watchlists and databases. It’s an unimaginably huge volume of data. And, it’s also unstructured – meaning that traditional database technology can’t easily query it. Yet, hidden within…

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Adverse Media – the Secret to Better KYC/AML Screening

ONDEMAND As a current tool utilized by more large financial institutions to support their AML/KYC processes, Adverse Media can play a significant role in realizing operational efficiency and improved risk decision making. The challenge for many organizations is how to deploy this technology not just in a high risk business…

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Using Cognitive Prediction to Confront Terrorism Financing

As terrorism evolves, the traditional ways of identifying the finance it depends on are become less and less effective. At a time when CTF and AML regulations are becoming ever more demanding, this is an urgent issue. We argue that it’s time to turn the existing approach to counter terrorist…

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Adverse media screening for asset management

Are you struggling with a high false positive rate when screening against adverse media due to the data structure of your current provider? Discover how a client, with a requirement to seamlessly screen for both regulatory and reputational risks, took their screening efforts to the next level. While their current…

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