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Regulatory Technology Solutions Launched Following Divestiture of SQA Consulting's AML Division

The divestiture of SQA Consulting's AML division marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for Regulatory adshjTechnology Solutions as it embarks on its journey to redefine regulatory compliance through innovative RegTech solutions.

Transaction monitoring effectiveness review

Our client, a payments company, had concerns that their transaction monitoring was not effective & could be opening them up to the risk of failing to identify suspicious activity. They were also concerned about their regulatory risk should a regulator investigate & find them to be sub-standard.

Swift sanctions screening assurance

A bank performs sanctions screening using some third-party software. Although the screening system appears to be working in that output is created, but the bank quite rightly wants to know if its system: addresses the bank’s risk, is effective, is efficient, is comparable to peer banking institutions.

Screening effectiveness assurance

A major UK retail bank was interested in assessing how effective their customer sanctions screening system was at identifying sanction list names should they occur in their customer base.

Sanctions / pep / adverse media screening alert spikes

SQA Consulting has developed a new screening tool called the Eliminator. This takes your alerts, matches and reprocesses them, applying further logic and rules to eliminate vast quantities of false positives.

Sanctions screening – threshold setting

SQA Consulting were engaged by a client to assist with the implementation of their new upgraded Screening Solution. In particular, they wanted advice and guidance concerning which screening threshold would work best for them.

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