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Joost Van Houten

Joost Van Houten Founder & CEO at Sentinels

What are some of the main problems that regulators currently face?

We live in a time of significant financial change; two once-in-a-lifetime recession events have happened in just over a decade, and regulators are trying to get a grip on financial economic crime while not limiting innovation. Unfortunately, rapid digitization due to the pandemic has sent instances of financial crime soaring. Regulators exist to pr...

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Joost Van Houten

Joost Van Houten Founder & CEO at Sentinels

Advancing AML: Why ultimate beneficial owners must be properly identified

In March 2022, global regulatory watchdog the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) adopted amendments to Recommendation 24 (R.24) of its 40 Recommendations that govern global anti-money laundering (AML) policy. This concerns Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO), i.e., the person who profits from money moving into or out of a business. These are signi...

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Joost Van Houten

Joost Van Houten Founder & CEO at Sentinels

Banks must join forces to fight money laundering

The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in financial services is pushing the eternal battle against money laundering into a new phase. For some time, in a bid to curb the amount of illicit finance passing through their systems and to comply with ever-tightening regulations, financial institutions have been throwing mone...

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