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15.10.2021 | Uwe Weber
FIU Annual Report 2020 – The Consequences of Covid-19 (Part 4 of 6)
The Financial Intelligence Unit's (FIU) Annual Report shows that in the period March to December 2020, around 11,200 suspicious activity reports (SARs) were filed in relation to Covid-19 emergency assistance wrongly paid by obliged parties. Of these, the FIU identified around 9,500 reports as attempted fraud.
11.10.2021 | Uwe Weber
FIU Annual Report 2020 – The Phenomenon of Hawala Banking (Part 3 of 6)
Hawala banking, also known as "underground banking", has a centuries-old tradition and exists in many countries as a parallel system to traditional banking. The fact that this system can also be used for the purpose of money laundering or international terrorist financing is not a new discovery. The FIU has now taken up and addressed this unregulated money transfer in its annual report 2020.
04.10.2021 | Uwe Weber
FIU Annual Report 2020 – Trade-Based Money Laundering Vulnerability (Part 2 of 6)
In its recently published Annual Report 2020, the German FIU also addressed the issue of Trade-Based Money Laundering (TBML). It presents two case constellations as examples which are quite common in the international context and may be assumed as already known typologies by the obliged parties under the German Money Laundering Act (GwG). Nevertheless, the examples show that such situations require a high degree of manual control activities and pose great challenges for the obliged parties.
27.09.2021 | Uwe Weber
FIU Annual Report 2020 – Financial Crime on the Rise? (Part 1 of 6)
On August 19, 2021, the Central Customs Authority published the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Annual Report for the reporting year 2020, which aims to provide information on which economic sectors in Germany are particularly under the influence of (financial) criminal activities.
26.08.2021 | Daniel Günzel
Compliance in the Cloud - Opportunities and Risks
Software is always a moving target. Software cannot be tangible at all times but is subject to constant further development and enhancement. Even Microsoft announces a new Windows release after having promised to have a final version 10 with incremental upgrades. In the AML compliance sector, i.e., AML, KYC and transaction screening, after a successful go live the next upgrade or migration project is already in progress since new regulations and security features demand enhanced versions. When selecting a new compliance system, there are many questions to be asked - one of which is the "cloud question".
13.08.2021 | Mirko Janyga
Item 6 of the AuA BT - BaFin Concretisations on Monitoring Systems helpful
On June 8, 2021, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) concretised the legal obligations for obliged entities pursuant to Section 2 (1) No. 1 of the German Anti-Money Laundering Act (GwG) with the publication of the Interpretation and Application Guidelines (AuA) for credit institutions. As already outlined in the blog post by my colleague Uwe Weber, item 1 of the AuA BT (special section) imposed on credit institutions that the origin of funds in cash transactions must be clarified and the associated verification and documentation obligations must be applied by August 8, 2021.
12.08.2021 | Mirko Janyga
Malta on the FATF's Grey List - Consequences for Obliged Entities according to AMLA
Malta – the centre of criticism for years. As the first EU member state, the country has recently made it to the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) due to increased and persistent money laundering and terrorist financing risks. The "grey list" is a global list of countries under increased scrutiny for deficiencies in the implementation of FATF standards.
04.08.2021 | Selina Trotno, Natalie Hürler
From a Backup Register to a Full Register – Are the Alterations by the German Act TraFinG Enough?
With the Transparency Register and Financial Information Act (TraFinG), the German legislature transposes the applicable EU Directives (EU) 2015/839 (Money Laundering Directive) and (EU) 2019/1153 (Financial Information Directive) into German law. The conversion of the transparency register from a backup register to a full register and the EU-wide interconnection of registers are intended to enable a fast and simple communication between the member states and Europol. For this, the EU stipulates the use of structured data records in a uniform data format at country level.
21.07.2021 | Natalie Hürler
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) in the Fight Against Financial Crime
Authorities and financial institutions (FIs) are highly aware of the challenge of detecting financial crime. Modern criminals are using increasingly more complex structures and are acting across multiple financial institutions and jurisdictions. Parties, such as FIs, FIUs , and law enforcement, operating alone encounter challenges in the identification and tracing of suspicious behavior.
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