AI Series - Is the Single Customer View still a myth?

APIs and the transformative potential of cloud

In this episode which is all about APIs and Cloud, we listen to a conversation between Pascal Aerens and Jeeva Moni.

Jeeva is an associate partner at EY in London, and specialises in consulting for financial services and transformation of Financial Crime function using innovative technologies.

As digital transformation is reaching financial services, APIs became an essential part of the transition from legacy siloed solutions, to ecosystems of components, allowing banks to deliver products in an agile way. This was particularly visible when the pandemic forced banks to beef up their digital channels very quickly.

Pascal and Jeeva also discuss the future of Financial Crime Technology, and how financial services now understand why cloud adoption and APIs are critical to their capacity to adapt very quickly to changing conditions, as with the new sanctions programs imposed on Russia.

Jeeva often says that API stands for “Accelerated Path to Innovation”, and we’ll see how that is true, more than ever.

How FCC applies to crypto: a practical conversation.

In this episode, we listen to a conversation between Pascal Aerens and JB Graftieaux. JB has been active in compliance and payments for 20 years, first at Paypal and eBay, and now at Bitstamp, the oldest regulated crypto exchange in Europe. 
Together with Pascal, JB explores how FCC regulation of crypto has evolved over time, how to approach regulators in different countries, and what types of licences are available for crypto entrepreneurs. They dive into compliance regulations specific to crypto, such as the "travel rule", and explain how the community is working together to implement it. 
JB also talks about how exchanges collaborate to fight against financial crime, and lobby regulators to help shaping future regulations.

Financial Crime Compliance issues in the Securities industry

In this episode, which is all about FCC in the securities industry, we listen to a conversation between Luc Meurant and Jim Freis.

Jim has an enormous experience in FCC, as a former head of FINCEN, the Financial Intelligence Unit of the US, and then later as chief compliance officer for Deutsche Börse Group in Germany.

Jim brings a unique perspective on financial crime compliance. He combines experiences from public and private sectors, has been working for incumbent and disrupter companies, and has been operating both in the US and in Europe. 

In their chat, Luc and Jim explore the many facets of FCC in the securities domain, from how screening and monitoring securities transactions is different from payments, to how regulations may evolve, and how the emergence of crypto could influence the industry’s future. 

To kick off the conversation, they start by looking at how securities are different from payments, and how the complexity of securities transactions makes it harder to define effective financial crime policies. 

All you ever wanted to know about Data Privacy, AI and the Cloud

In this episode, which is all about data privacy, AI, and the cloud, we listen to a conversation between Neterium’s Chief Commercial Officer Florence Vicentini, and Raphael Dana. Raphael is attorney at law based in Paris, and has been practicing for over 15 years. He has been advising many companies around data privacy related questions, and has numerous clients in the financial sector.  Florence and Raphael are discussing many of the hot topics in the data privacy debate. including scope and roles in the European GDPR regulation, the consequences of the cancellation of the US Privacy Shield, as well as the new cloud offerings trying to solve the data confidentiality, and data sovereignty issues. But first, they start by reflecting on the apparent paradox of privacy in FCC. where we need data to perform KYC checks and enrich our AI models, but at the same time we must respect Data Privacy regulations. 

AI Series - Is the Single Customer View still a myth?

In this episode, which is part of our series on AI in FCC, we listen to a conversation between Pascal Aerens and Eric Malherbe. Eric has been working as an expert and consultant in FCC technology for nearly 15 years. Today’s conversation is focusing on a concept that looked like the holy grail of FCC, the “single customer view ”. Eric and Pascal speak about their experience and wonder if this concept is now a reality or still a myth. To kick off the conversation, they remember how things started around 2008, when the term single customer view what first heard in FCC.