Financial Crime Innovation: Adverse Media Screening - Ben McKee, Basis Technology (Northampton, UK)

Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen chat with Ben McKee about why natural language processing is the "secret sauce" behind effective adverse media screening as part of a good financial crime compliance programme,"googling" for bad news, using artificial intelligence to search from adverse media semantic meaning to better pinpoint relevant adverse media, lessons learnt from the 1MDB case, a recent complex COVID fraud case involving the use of social media promotion, real life financial crime cases detected through adverse media screening and whether it's possible to undertaken adverse media screening across multiple languages and some sage advice on how to succeed with business development in this new virtual normal environment.

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This podcast was inspired by the evolving Covid-19 restrictions and how it has impacted compliance professionals working in financial crime prevention. Reaching out to individuals across the globe, hosts Samantha Sheen and Marie Lundberg look at how people are adjusting to remote working from home while still keeping up efforts to detect, prevent and disrupt financial crime. The topics covered range from governance, KYC, transaction monitoring to cyber security and accountability.Taking a plain speaking approach, Marie and Sam analyse notable cases involving financial crime, epic “compliance fails” and lessons learnt along the way. And to help fellow compliance professionals keep on top of their CPD, case studies with illustrative slides are also included – a bit like story time for adults – so enjoy.