Blogs
Reviewing Customer Risk Profiles After Onboarding
As we ease into a new year, there’s never been a better time to review your organization's AML and KYC protocols to ensure you are as protected as possible. Criminal activities continue to grow increasingly complex and fraudsters find new ways to fly under the radar,...
Factors of Conducting Enhanced Due Diligence
Are your KYC protocols and practices set up for success in 2023? As we settle into the new year and face the ever-evolving world of online business, now more than ever before companies and financial institutions should prepare and implement strong Anti-Money...
Reviewing the Travel Rule for Virtual Assets: What You Need to Know
With virtual assets and decentralized financial exchanges continuing to make headlines in 2022, many countries are aiming to implement more compliance advancements in the coming years. Reviewing the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Travel Rule and related virtual...
Protect and Streamline Your Business with iComply’s EDD and KYC Software
Does your organization have adequate safeguards in place to circumvent fraud and uphold evolving money laundering legislation? Know Your Customer (KYC) and Customer Due Diligence (CDD) protocols are essential to avoid unnecessary risks and stay compliant with...
Corporate Due Diligence: Putting the KYB in KYC
Do you know who you’re doing business with? Corporate due diligence, Know Your Business (KYB), and Know Your Customer (KYC) protocols are essential safeguards against money laundering, fraud, and misappropriation of funds for criminal purposes. From onboarding new...
Uncovering the Risks of Synthetic Identities
Meet “Joe Smith”, your suspiciously-good-on-paper prospective client applying for a line of credit. While many of Joe’s details seem to be tied to real documents like a valid Social Insurance or Social Security Number (SIN/SNN), address, and (of course) a glowing...
Stepping Up Your AML Practices in 2023
As we ease into 2023 and reflect on the ever-evolving world of digital security, there’s no denying that fraudsters have become incredibly advanced in their approach—an estimated 90% of money laundering crimes still go undetected—making AML protocols more important...
Protecting Digital Assets with KYC
Are your KYC protocols set up to protect your customers and your digital assets? With the digital world constantly evolving and new assets entering the market, ensuring that your due diligence and identity verification platforms are up to current regulations is...
Common Challenges Facing KYC Protocols
Do you have the right processes and protocols in place to protect against fraud, money laundering, and the many other risks that come with operating in today’s market? Know Your Customer and Customer Due Diligence, otherwise known as KYC and CDD, play a major role in...
Paris FinTech Forum 2020: Highlights and Takeaways
This month, iComply attended the Paris FinTech Forum 2020 with Toronto Finance International to represent Canada alongside four other innovative companies driving digital transformation in global...
2020 Paris Fintech Forum: iComply and Toronto Finance International
With the first few weeks of 2020 already behind us, our global calendar of events and conferences is filling up quickly! Our team has been invited to join the Canadian delegation along with Toronto...
2019 Toronto Refinitiv Summit: Event Highlights and Takeaways
iComply kicked this month of December off with a bang by attending the fully-packed 2019 Refinitiv Summit at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Downtown Toronto. Regulators, global financial leaders, and...
Canada FinTech Forum 2019: Event Highlights and Takeaways
This October, iComply was privileged to join the international delegation that attended the seventh annual Canada FinTech Forum in Montreal, Canada. Alongside our partners and colleagues at the...
Money 2020 USA: Event Highlights and Takeaways
The iComply team made an appearance at Money2020 USA from October 27-30, 2019. This annual event draws together the world's most innovative leaders in finance; with Vegas as host city, this year...
Debunking the Top 5 Myths of KYC Programs
Know Your Client, better known as KYC, is the process of gathering sufficient information about an individual, user, or entity to identify whether they represent any risks, including AML (anti-money...
The Economist + iComply: Banking on Blockchain
As Seen In: The Economist and iComply – Banking on Blockchain This September, iComply Investor Services partnered with The Economist on their Future Banking and Payments series to publish...
Digital Securities: Benefits & Use Cases – Free Resource
Blockchain technology is becoming ubiquitous in today's world–including the world of traditional finance. Global personal wealth surpassed US$200 trillion in 2017, and it's expected to grow by 7%...
Risk in Digital Assets and Cryptocurrency: What Every CIO and CCO Needs to Know
Live Webinar: What Financial Institutions Need to Know About Cryptocurrency Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2019, 11 am -12 pm EST Public blockchains - and the cryptocurrencies running on them...
Possibilities and Challenges of AML for Crypto-assets
Possibilities and Challenges of AML for crypto-assets Join PwC Luxembourg, LetzBlock and iComply for this special event! For the first time in Luxembourg, professionals and financial agencies, from...
What is a Stablecoin?
Did You Know: Stablecoins What is a Stablecoin? A stablecoin is a digital token that is backed by real assets such as fiat currency, with the intention being to reduce volatility. In the investment...
Central Banks and Public Blockchains
The use of blockchain has been said to provide massive benefits for financial institutions but what real progress has been made? Sure, firms such as JP Morgan have been playing with private chains...