Accuity Insights Blog

25 September 2019 - Accuity Insights
The Myths and Magic of AI
Artificial intelligence is already transforming financial services and has the potential to bring about even greater change, but we should always remember its limitations.
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12 April 2019 - Accuity Insights
Community Spirit Powers a Culture of Success
Diversity drives our business forward. We’ve been speaking to people from different backgrounds in different offices across our organisation to find out exactly what diversity means to them and how it impacts our customers. In the following blog, Patrick McConville discusses his experiences and the power of a supportive community.
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21 February 2019 - Accuity Insights
Making KYC Scalable and Sustainable with the New Bankers Almanac API
Know Your Customer (KYC) due diligence still involves sifting through realms of unstructured data, using manual and repetitive methods; and this is something we are helping the industry overcome. By offering our unrivalled intelligence on global financial institutions via our new Bankers Almanac: KYC API, we aim to help financial institutions with large-scale KYC operations to be more effective, drive efficiency, and make the KYC process more sustainable.
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22 October 2018 - Accuity Insights
Can fully automated KYC become a reality?
Banks desperately need to meet compliance requirements without slowing down transactions or damaging customer relationships, but KYC screening still involves sorting through huge amounts of unstructured data, using manual and repetitive processes.
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RegTechs: essential allies for Open Banking
These are exciting times in the RegTech space, with so many new innovations to explore and much more on the horizon. We asked Franck Lanher, EMEA Director at Accuity, about his experience of improving financial crime compliance processes with many of the world’s leading financial institutions.
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30 May 2018 - Accuity Insights
Shipping technology is making trade finance more transparent
Versions of this article originally published in Global Banking & Finance Review and Trade Financing Matters. In the twelve months from January to December 2017, over 4,500 vessels in the container, bulker and tanker fleet completed 30,000 visits to OFAC sanctioned terminals (Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Sudan, Syria and the Crimea). Whilst not every vessel visit […]
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10 April 2018 - Accuity Insights
How tighter compliance can boost the reputation and value of ICOs
At the latest Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meeting, 35 countries, the European Commission and the Gulf Co-operation Council urged the international body to improve understanding of money laundering risk related to cryptocurrencies. In light of this, Michael LaScola, Business Solution Specialist at Accuity, discusses some AML best practices for ICOs and why they should […]
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