Elucidate Blog

ISO

ISO 20022 is a global standard for financial messaging that enhances payment security and efficiency by providing richer, more structured data and enabling comprehensive risk assessments.

Regulators

A collection of articles analysing the trends, impact, news, and updates on regulation and regulators across the banking industry.

Network management

A collection of articles regarding network portfolio performance tracking and compliance in corresponding banking.

Governance

A collection of articles regarding governance in banking including how they are financed and regulated, externalities bank failures produce, the nature of their assets, etc.

FinTech

A collection of articles about how technology is impacting the finance and banking industry.

Compliance

A collection of articles concerning compliance with applicable laws, regulations and rules, and preserving the integrity and reputation of institutions.

Financial Crime

Money laundering, fraud, terrorism financing, etc. Financial Crime can take many faces and here is where we analyse all of them.

Banks

A collection of articles analysing case studies and other stories of specific banks or bank networks.

Banks

Enhancing Risk Assessment with Elucidate's Real-Time Risk Scoring System in ISO 20022 Transactions

In this article, we explore how Elucidate’s real-time risk scoring system leverages the ISO 20022 standard to bolster risk assessment in payment transactions. Discover how integrating comprehensive, ISO-compliant data can transform your approach to transaction risk analysis and enhance the accuracy of your data and risk operations.

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Compliance

Pricing financial crime risk

The shift from manual to automated, data-driven risk assessment is expected to transform how banks manage and price financial crime risk, promoting fairer practices and stronger standards across the industry.

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Network management

What are the risks and limitations of the correspondent banking system?

In this article, we discuss the risks in correspondent banking and how to overcome these to benefit your bank and bolster correspondent relationships.

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Financial Crime

Sanctions risks: KYC challenges and how to overcome them

From tech and operational challenges, to manual KYC and AML processes - here's how to tackle these challenges when evaluating sanctions risk.

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FinTech

Overcoming experimenter’s bias to better manage financial crime risk

Financial crime is pervasive, dynamic, and often on such a scale that even the most apparently safe industries and regions are open for exploitation.

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Financial Crime

Shane Riedel and Filipe Garcia: An interview with Elucidate's founders

The startup founders share their perspective on Elucidate's genesis, evolution and vision

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FinTech

Preventing financial crime with a data-driven approach

Information sharing and collaboration across all concerned parties within the financial system is critical to successfully combating financial crime.

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Compliance

Our take on the results of FATF’s cross-border payments survey

Understanding the key findings and challenges from the FATF Survey

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Financial Crime

Luanda leaks: Reflections on fixing a flawed system

The revelations about the conduct and criminal activity of Isabel dos Santos has brought to the fore familiar issues in the financial crime space.

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Financial Crime

How financial crime scandals reveal the need for risk monitoring tech

Leaks and whistleblowers have become a usual method by which many large-scale financial crime events are uncovered. What can we learn from this?

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Integrating modern tech into your control framework

Within the banking and risk management industry, new tech should be viewed as an augmentation to improve team function and efficiency.

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Financial Crime

How poor financial crime risk management can be a career killer

Without a right strategy and technology to support it, executives and Board Members put themselves at risk of being found liable for financial crime.

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