Regulatory Compliance Journal
AML Transaction Monitoring & Detection Scenarios
Efficiently fine-tuning AML Transaction Monitoring can help financial firm's compliance teams to increase productivity while carefully avoiding pointless investigations by reducing the amount of false-positive alerts. The revision of AML detection scenarios is not a straightforward proces...
- 19 min read
The UBO Register in practice | Belgium
Is the UBO Register useful during KYC processes?It was a tedious job to complete the UBO Register for companies. There were a number of start-up problems that made it difficult to transmit all the data on time. We were finally able to do so, but the deadline was extended to September 30, 20...
- 8 min read
Look up company VAT number in Europe
How to find the VAT number of a counterparty or customer ?How can you, as a company or obliged entity, search for the VAT number of a counterparty or customer? Whether you are a company that has to check whether your counterparty is subject to VAT or as an entity subject to the AML Act, you ...
- 1 min read
VAT carousel: fiction or truth for financial institutions ?
VAT Carousels - The look back in the transactions For several years there have been occasional stories of VAT carousels that are exposed after the facts and where banks then do a look back in the transactions on their systems to determine whether something could have been noticed in the past. ...
- 4 min read
The rising cost of regulatory compliance for financial institutions
Businesses are increasingly worried about regulatory costs that arise every time a new legal framework is introduced. The stakeholders fear that the cost of compliance will cut the growth of businesses and will lead to very restrictive business environments. What do we mean when we refer to ...
- 5 min read
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EU proposals: cross-border distribution of investment funds
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