Financial institutions worldwide are adopting automated anti-money laundering (AML) solutions. Big four UK bank Lloyds TSB has turned to IBM and application provider Searchspace to implement a system to help it counter money laundering.
The UK's banking regulator is to examine the use of anti-money laundering systems amid concerns from financial firms that monitoring technology is too expensive and ineffective. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is asking banks and other...
An £80m money laundering tax scam involving the sale of computer chips and mobile phones has been smashed in a series of raids by Customs and Excise. The money is believed to have been channelled through the bank accounts of two Chelmsford-based...
Fraud and money laundering regulations and the Basel II accord will drive $4.8bn of investment in new technology by European banks by 2006, according to new research. Anti-money laundering guidelines from regulators such as the UK's Financial...
Peter Gandy, head of web services at BT Global Services, said in a statement: "The new extended money-laundering regulations make it a legal requirement for companies to have robust systems for customer validation and record keeping in place.
Compliance regulations will also remain a headache for IT departments, with respondents saying International Accounting Standards, data privacy laws and anti-money laundering legislation will all have an impact on IT operations in the next three...