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Arctic Intelligence, a market-leader in financial crime prevention audit, risk and compliance software, warned today that many Australian businesses may be unaware that their internal risk assessment processes do not go far enough; leaving them vulnerable to money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions and regulatory non-compliance. With organised crime is estimated to cost the Australian economy…

Financial criminals are winning, so organisations need to be more vigilant and work together to combat it, according to Anthony Quinn, founder and CEO at Artic Intelligence. One of the biggest challenges facing financial institutions is combatting financial crime, particularly money laundering. There has been a lot of focus put on anti-money laundering (AML) and…

Commonwealth Bank staff at the Market City branch in Sydney’s Chinatown were getting suspicious, watching the same customer making cash deposits of just under $10,000. It was July 2015 and the customer was following a pattern they had seen elsewhere: ploughing cash into an intelligent deposit machine (IDM) just below the threshold where such deposits…

A new industry group to represent the emerging regulatory technology, or regtech, industry has been formed in order to encourage collaboration between start-ups and regulated companies as the rise of artificial intelligence technology points to a new age of proactive compliance monitoring. A dozen Australian start-ups have come together to form the RegTech Association, which…