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Top Applications of Facial Recognition Technology in the Digital Age
Facial recognition technology is biometric security in which an individual’s physical trait...
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Synthetic Identity – A New Form of Identity Fraud for 2019?
Synthetic identity fraud (SIF) is a comparatively new form of identity theft that has gripped the...
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Anti Money Laundering, Blog, Business Technology, Identity & KYC
Customer Due Diligence: From KYC to KYB
Why CDD is significant for both Know Your Customer and Know your Business verification?
Banking i...
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Shufti’s Ongoing AML Solution to Prevent Transaction Laundering
Online financial criminals are always finding newer ways to exploit financial infrastructures in ...
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Identifying and Combating Trade-Based Money Laundering with Shufti AML Screening Services
The crime involved in trading is as old as human history. Where there is trade there is money inv...
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Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Solutions – Securing Luxury Goods and Curbing Financial Crimes
Exotic cars, designer clothes, artifacts, and private jets make attractive news headlines and mov...
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OCR in Banking | Automating Data Extraction, Customer Onboarding, and ID Verification
The global Banking and Financial Services Industry (BFSI) is one of the most heavily regulated an...
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Securing Digital Payments and Mitigating Financial Crimes Through AML Screening Solutions
The promise of payments technologies is being realized. Consumers are executing frictionless paym...
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A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs)
Identifying UBOs and their control over a business is crucial for financial firms to meet regulat...
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Document Verification Services – The Secret Sauce to Keep Fraudsters Away
Forging someone’s documents is something bad enough but selling them on the dark web is just rubb...
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AML Verification Services: Fighting Back Financial Crimes in 2023
The Covid-19 outbreak has increased reliance on eCommerce and digital banking — cultivating a lus...
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Securing Investment Industry with Shufti’s Investor Verification Solution
In this tech-driven world, perpetrators and organized crime groups are adopting sophisticated met...
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Blog, Financial Crime / AML, Reg Tech
AMLD5 – Regulations catching up with Technology
In this era of technology, it is a common saying that “Innovation leads and regulation follows.” ...
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Video KYC Verification | The Hassle-Free Process of Authenticating Identities
Digital onboarding these days is getting tougher for firms working and managing their business op...
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Anti Money Laundering, Blog, Financial Crime / AML, Identity & KYC
Winter is Coming: With a Storm of KYC and AML Regulations
The ever-evolving regulations are creating challenges and complexities for the financial institut...
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Travel Fraud and the Crucial Role of e-IDV
The travel sector is booming in this age of digitisation, and air travellers are estimated to dou...
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40 Surprising Facts and Statistics About Money Laundering [2021 Update]
Combatting money laundering is one of the top-tier challenges when it comes to the regulatory reg...
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Corporate Transparency Act – The Road to Better AML Compliance
According to the latest reports, the United States ranked number 1 for not complying with the ant...
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What Makes the Automotive Industry a Vehicle for Money Launderers
The automobile industry is the world’s biggest revenue-generating sector. In the global aut...
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Synthetic Identity – A New Form of Identity Fraud for 2019?
Synthetic identity fraud (SIF) is a comparatively new form of identity theft that has gripped the...
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Document Authentication | Streamlining Onboarding, Compliance & Fraud Prevention
Before the world experienced digitisation due to the advent of smartphones, fast-speed internet, ...
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Shufti to Revamp Customer Experience with Enhanced Video KYC UX
Would you ever want to use a product that is hard to understand? A McKinsey Report revealed that ...
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Anti Money Laundering, Blog, Financial Crime / AML
Why PEPs are High Risk and a Threat To Your Business?
In the Financial and Trade industry, you may have often heard the term PEPs and the importance of...
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Blog, Fraud Prevention
What is Loan Fraud and How to Detect it?
Loan fraud simply means when someone uses your identity to illegally obtain a loan. The crime has...
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Swipe Right on Facial Verification for Secure Online Dating
In today’s COVID-ridden world, in-person dating is deemed very risky due to the spread of the vir...
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Blog, Reg Tech
EU’s 4th AML Directive Aims to make the Payment Ecosystem Crime Free
On June 26, 2018, the European Union landed the fourth AML directive that is targeted at combatin...
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Facial Recognition Technology Pioneered at Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020
Facial recognition has grown by leaps and bounds with the arrival of the sophisticated pattern-ma...
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Liveness Detection | An Extra Layer of Protection Against Spoofing and Fraud
The consumer demand for biometric and facial authentication technologies is rising, with the mark...
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Biometric Authentication – A Solution Against Fraud Detection
Biometrics technology is the way forward for identity verification services as they allow for qui...
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Restricting Criminals from Exploiting Investment Industry with Shufti AML Screening Solution
Investing the accumulated capital of investors in financial securities is the primary task of inv...
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Gaming Industry Crimes and KYC/AML Solutions – What Shufti Can Offer
From the world’s glitziest gaming development to betting shops on the high streets, the global ga...
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Combatting Identity Theft with KYC Verification – A Risk-Based Approach in Online Shopping
The proliferation of online stores has radically transformed how people shop and greatly affected...
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Periodic to Perpetual KYC — The Changing Landscape in Banks
The employment of effective Know Your Customer (KYC) procedures has long been a challenge for fin...
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Source of Funds | A Critical Step in Mitigating the Risk of Money Laundering
As the world continues on a path of digitization, business operations persist to undergo signific...
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Blog, Business Technology
Biometric Verification – Shaping the Future of Payments
Today’s world is no longer different from the science fiction world. With the advent of technolog...
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Transaction Monitoring: Going Beyond AML Screening
Whether you are an accountant in Wall Street or a developer for Google, money laundering will not...
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KYC/AML Compliance – Eliminating Financial Crime in Challenger Banks
Challenger banks have emerged in the financial services paradigm by bringing digital innovations ...
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Disruptive Fintech Trends 2020
Fintech has changed the way consumers access their finances. From mobile payment apps to insuranc...
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Navigating the Changing Digital Finance Landscape 2023
The financial services sector has witnessed a rapid surge in the adoption of digital technologies...
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EU’s Smart ID Wallet – Paving the Way for a Seamless Digital World
A few days back, the European Union Commission published a draft for digital ID wallets for all t...
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A Deep Dive into Know Your Business Verification
Customer verification is essential for all businesses to onboard legitimate customers, but what a...
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AUSTRAC’s ML/TF Risk Assessment Report on Foreign Bank Branches [Part 3]
This blog makes the third chapter of our four-part series on AUSTRAC’s report on the Banking Sect...
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Age Verification: Comply with Global Regulations or Face Reputational Damages
In the digital age, businesses that operate online face a significant challenge when verifying th...
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AML & KYC Compliance – 5 Ways AI is Supporting the Fight Against Financial Crimes
Reforming AML & KYC Compliance Structures for Financial Institutions
The capabilities ...
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UK’s Digital Identity Framework – Cornerstone of Reliable ID
In today’s technology-driven era, digital identity is becoming inevitable. Physical interactions ...
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Top 5 Frequently Asked Questions about Biometric Verification
Identity theft, data breaches, and other crimes are rising in this age of digitisation. A quick r...
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Holiday Season – The Time of the Year When Frauds Soar Sky High
Despite being the “most wonderful time of the year”, the holiday season is known to have the high...
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High-Risk Transactions – How Can Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) Help?
In today’s continuously evolving world, businesses should not only focus on the revenue they gene...
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AUSTRAC’s ML/TF Risk Assessment Report on Major Banks [Part 1]
Back in September 2018, the Australian Government provided AUD 5.175 million funding to AUSTRAC f...
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Age Gating VS Age Verification | Enhancing Security for Minors
Age gating was once employed to stop minors from accessing age-restricted content. However, the a...
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Blog, Financial Crime / AML
Impact of Regulatory Scrutiny & AML Compliance in Real Estate
Anti Money Laundering (AML): Criminals around the globe are targeting real estate to launder the ...
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Biometric Technology, Blog, Identity & KYC
ID Verification API – Smooth Integration With Online Systems
The financial services (FS) sector has the highest ever recorded abandonment rate of 83.6% amongs...
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5 Features of the Best Transaction Monitoring Solution
Criminals are continuously devising sophisticated strategies to launder illegally-acquired money....
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Blog, Financial Crime / AML, Online Marketplace
Smaller Banks are in dire need of AML Compliance to avoid fines
Smaller banks are being considered an easy target for money laundering activities because of thei...
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KYC/AML Compliance for Startups in the Financial Sector – How Shufti Can Help
As technology continues to transform the financial industry, the need for identity verification h...
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Record-Breaking Fines on Banks for KYC/AML Non-Compliance
Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance have been structured to make ...
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The Future Of the Financial Sector in the Gulf Region
Digital transformation, that has undoubtedly disrupted numerous industries worldwide, has reached...
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CFT & AML Compliance To Hold Back Financial Crimes
In this digital era, many factors are greasing the wheel of money laundering. Due to online trans...
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Blog, Fraud Prevention
What is Loan Fraud and How to Detect it?
Loan fraud simply means when someone uses your identity to illegally obtain a loan. The crime has...
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10 High-Risk Jurisdictions for Money Laundering According to FATF
Innovations like stablecoins and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) created quite the hype in the past ye...
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Identity verification in social media – Lighting up the dark side
Social media is a word every one of us can relate to. With every passing day, it is penetrating i...
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Age Verification for Social Media – Protecting the Younger Victims of Online Scams
With a significant majority of students diverting from their usual school routines due to the COV...
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Blog, Online Marketplace
Why Millennials don’t care about Conventional Banking Services?
Millennials are different from the baby boomer generation. They earn less than what the previous ...
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Electronic Identity Verification | Forecasts and Predictions
Identities change as the world goes more digital. As more activities, like banking, socialising, ...
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Know Your Patient – Curbing Healthcare Fraud through Identity Verification
With global digitization and emerging technologies, the healthcare sector has adopted a variety o...
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Vendor due diligence – Why it’s important and how it’s done?
In today’s ever-changing corporate landscape, businesses are always looking for ways to make thei...
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Halloween and the Spooky Scams – How identity verification helps?
Halloween is just around the corner and so do the scammers ready to exploit the opportunity. Whic...
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Talent Acquisition Fraud – Hiring Legitimate Candidates with Identity Verification
Along with the rise in virtual and remote work, the number of cases of recruitment fraud is incre...
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Panama Moves Forward With New Crypto Bill – A Step Towards Legalizing Digital Assets
Cryptocurrencies have been around for a decade now. As new technologies are emerging, criminals a...
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UAE Government Stepping Up Against Prevalent Crimes
The UAE is known for being home to flourishing businesses and providing a significant level of fi...
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Blog, Identity & KYC
Common Online Scams You Need to Know About
The explosion of the internet and the world moving towards the fourth industrial revolution have ...
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5 Key Cybersecurity Threats for 2020
Cybersecurity threats have become remarkably common and they continue to gain traction with the p...
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