Regulators have now written down precisely what a shared warning system would require. They have not asked anyone to build it. The payment standard being finalised this summer records who paid, and nothing at all about who is worried. #R16 #FinancialCrime #AML #TravelRule #WTRKnowledgeHub #OpusDatum

Europe made purchase-only use a condition of staying anonymous. The FATF made it the reason to stop asking. Same line, opposite conclusions.
#PaymentTransparency #R16 #FATF #PrepaidCards #AMLD5 #CardPayments #AML #Compliance #FinancialCrime #WTRKnowledgeHub #OpusDatum

Scammers have named the same three payment methods for years. That is not a preference; it is a map of where the rules thin out.
#FATF #GiftCardFraud #ScamPayments #CryptoATM #PaymentTransparency #R16 #FinancialCrime #AML #Compliance #WTRKnowledgeHub #OpusDatum

The crypto travel rule was built to make counterparties visible. Five years on, a VASP can send flawless data to an entity it cannot identify, in a jurisdiction it cannot rely on. The message travels. The trust does not.
#R16 #TravelRule #VASP #Crypto #FATF #AML #WTRKnowledgeHub #OpusDatum

The top red flag for smuggling money is not in the payment. It is the relationship between the two people on it, which no message has ever recorded and the new standard still does not require.
#PaymentTransparency #R16 #HumanSmuggling #FinCEN #AML #FinancialCrime #WTRKnowledgeHub #OpusDatum

UBS installed the monitoring system it had promised its regulator, and switched it on. More than 61,500 wires worth over $10.5 billion never reached it.
#PaymentTransparency #TransactionMonitoring #FinCEN #R16 #FinancialCrime #DataLineage #AMLCompliance #WireTransfers #WTRKnowledgeHub #OpusDatum