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Monitoring High Risk Transactions. Why We Monitor What We Monitor How We Monitor Does it work?. May 11, 2009. MONITORING HIGH RISK TRANSACTIONS. WHY?. Protect against “Bad Guys”: Money Launderers Sanctioned Parties( OFAC, EU,etc.) Terrorist Financiers. MONITORING HIGH RISK TRANSACTIONS.
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Monitoring High Risk Transactions • Why We Monitor • What We Monitor • How We Monitor • Does it work? May 11, 2009
MONITORING HIGH RISK TRANSACTIONS WHY? • Protect against “Bad Guys”: • Money Launderers • Sanctioned Parties( OFAC, EU,etc.) • Terrorist Financiers
MONITORING HIGH RISK TRANSACTIONS WHY? • Protect against regulators: • Policies and procedures • Automated systems • Manual reviews • Training • Record keeping • Consistency • FFIEC Manual
MONITORING HIGH RISK TRANSACTIONS Are risk based programs a myth? • Interdiction: OFAC =“Strict liability” • Monitoring: Risk =Reputation, “reputation is priceless” • Cost Justification • Riggs Bank, Lloyds Bank • Insurance model: Expected return is negative, but pay a premium you can afford to avoid a loss you cannot afford.
MONITORING HIGH RISK TRANSACTIONS What? • Funds Transfer( SWIFT & ACH) • Capital Markets • Trade Finance • Liability Management? • Checks • Third party payments • Vendors, employees
MONITORING HIGH RISK TRANSACTIONS How? • Manual Monitoring • Automated systems • Interdiction systems • Source lists • Algorithms: • Stop descriptors • Phonetic matches • Fuzzy logic • Monitoring systems • Rules Based • Change based • Artificial intelligence
MONITORING HIGH RISK TRANSACTIONS • Interdiction is the more simple task • Comparison of three tools on same data Does it work?
True Hit 92 184 8 176 343 481 4688 MONITORING HIGH RISK TRANSACTIONS Comparison of screening tools Single day Funds Transfer Phonetic (460) Stop Descriptor (1008) Fuzzy Logic (5529)
MONITORING HIGH RISK TRANSACTIONS • Ratio of alerts to SAR’s;>2000:1 • Ratio of interdiction hits to block/reject;=1000:1 • Regulators seem satisfied • Lack of objective standards • Testing bio labs Does it work?
MONITORING HIGH RISK TRANSACTIONS • Staffing • Investigator • Statistician • Technology • Database • Business Objects ver. XI (BOXI) • Projects • Digit distribution • Business line risk assessment • Vessels • Resource optimization Research & Development Project