Skip to main content

Anti Money Laundering (AML) Software Market : Technological advancements

 Over the past five years, the financial service industry has witnessed far-reaching technology-led transformations, with companies looking for improving the efficiency of their financial departments by incorporating innovative IT solutions. The banking software industry has witnessed significant developments in the past decade, in terms of understanding, exploring, researching, managing, and utilizing resources to create value. A similar trend is expected to prevail in the next decade, and the banking software industry is expected to evolve in terms of facilitating global, multi-service, low-cost, and digital banking. However, over the past decade, significant threats of terrorism from money laundering have become a major concern for regulatory bodies such as Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Therefore, with the growth in the banking software industry, there is an increasing demand for regulators, such as anti-money laundering (AML) software, to counter the upsurge in the financing of terrorism and money laundering incidences. Money laundering, the process of showing illegally-acquired money to appear legal, has been a significant challenge for major economies since the early 1990s. It generally involves three steps: placement, layering, and integration.

BIS Research Report on  Anti Money Laundering (AML) Software Market

Technological advancements in financial services have resulted in an increase in the number of wired transactions worldwide. However, these smooth and prompt transactions have exposed the financial institutes to the risk of money laundering. According to United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), money worth approximately 2-5% of global GDP, amounting to $800 billion-2 trillion, is laundered in 2018. Governments of various nations are forming their regulatory bodies, in order to address money laundering. For instance, in 2013, the U.K. established National Crime Agency (NCA), which ensures to cut down crimes such as money laundering by monitoring high-end customers, including lawyers, investment bankers, and accountants. Furthermore, Basel Institute on Governance, an independent, not-for-profit competence center in Switzerland, published the Basel AML Index for 2018, covering 146 countries. 

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Personal Care Ingredients Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report 2019-2029

The introduction and proliferation of bio-based ingredients in several industries, such as food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics, has been transforming the manufacturing landscape since 2000. Growing consumer inclination toward the adoption of bio-based products due to rising health and environmental concerns is driving the demand for bio-based ingredients in the cosmetics and personal care products. Besides, awareness among consumers regarding the harmful effects of synthetic ingredients chemicals has grown rapidly over the past years. In addition, the availability of green raw materials has also urged large cosmetic firms to develop bio-based cosmetic products. However, limited availability of raw material, due to erratic weather conditions and stringent environmental regulations, can pose substantial hurdles in the production of bio-based ingredients. Thus, leading companies have been focusing on developing new and sustainable ways of producing the ingredi...

Strategies Incorporated to Sustain the Competition

  The strategies followed by various prominent companies to sustain the competition and expand their market share has been varying from mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to collaborations and partnerships. In the past three years (January 2017-September 2020), the market witnessed approximately eight M&A activities, seven partnerships, and alliances (collaborations, joint ventures, and other agreements), one business expansion, and four other developments. Among the different key developments, M&A activities constitute the dominant contributor’s strategies, followed by partnership and alliances. The global bioengineered skin substitutes market is dominated by juggernauts including AbbVie, Inc., Integra LifeSciences Corporation, Smith & Nephew plc, and Stryker Corporation, and other medium and small-medium enterprises that are offering wide ranges of bioengineered skin substitute products in the market. Several companies are attempting to enter the market and sustain...

Increasing Adoption of Lidar in Construction Applications

  The construction industry is continuously growing and has been witnessing various technological innovations. The construction industry depicts high complexity, steep costs, and low toleration for error, that facilitate the adoption of laser scanning. Lidars have enabled the construction industry to gain 3D models of existing space and build digital plans on those real spaces. Digital collaboration frameworks such as building information modelling (BIM) deliver the value of the scans to every element of a construction team in formats that are best suited to their needs. BIM schematics also provide continuing value to facility maintenance and operation teams. BIS Research Report on Lidar Market Numerous stages of construction projects are scanned for quality assurance, cross-checking with models, and spotting errors. Lidars can also be deployed for quality evaluation of prefabricated materials, allowing an efficient, and cheap evaluation. Furthermore, lidars find applications i...