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AML Compliance

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) is a regulation which, similar to Know Your Customer (KYC), is designed to prevent criminals from using various industries and businesses.

Compliance with these regulations are required for financial services around the world. Malicious actors often attempt to launder money – hide their involvement with illegally-gained money through various methods and channels in order to avoid detection and prosecution.

There are various ways in which money can be laundered: through financial services such as banks and exchanges, gambling enterprises such as a casinos, purchasing goods such as art which are then sold off, or by various other means; all of these methods involve the criminal spending ‘dirty’ money and receiving ‘clean’ money that can’t be traced back to the crime.

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The measures to counteract these different money laundering methods, and others, all fall under the anti-money laundering regulations which are designed to combat the different styles criminals attempt to employ.\ Without AML measures, criminals would be free to use money made from illicit activities and send it around the world at will without being caught. Besides the obvious advantage this would give to criminals, and the social and economic impact on legitimate people and businesses this would have where it was taking place, there is also the linked concern that money gained through criminal activity can be a significant funding source for terrorism.

“When AML measures are missing or lacking, crime and terrorism is allowed to thrive.”

This is not a problem that has sprung up in the last few years; money laundering has been an issue almost as long as money has been around, though the term is thought to date back to the early 1900s where Italian monsters would use laundromat businesses to disguise their illegally-gained money.\ A report in 2005 highlighted the issue when it estimated that money laundering involved well over £100bn in UK and US alone, with the increasing popularity of international payment and remittance channels and an increase of more than 25% in Global GDP since then.

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There is likely to be a corresponding increase in money laundering. The UNODC puts the estimated money laundering figure somewhere between 2-5% of Global GDP.\ Despite the vital importance of AML regulations, complying with them can often be a time consuming and costly process. Various reports highlight the cost of compliance. Some companies perform ALM checks in-house, but have to spend valuable man-hours conducting the checks and take the liability of it onto themselves.

Others may choose to outsource the AML checks to a third party, but that can be much more expensive.

Blockpass provides a compliant solution in the Blockpass Mobile App

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Instantaneous verification

With the Blockpass technology and approach, verification and onboarding happens almost instantaneously for pre-existing Blockpass users and is usually very rapid for new Blockpass users. In addition, as Blockpass puts users in control of their data and certifications, the solution can be offered at a reduced cost compared to traditional alternatives.

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Blockpass offers a multi-product portfolio that allows merchants to choose the scale of solution that applies to each business and jurisdiction. Whether a business wants only Face Match certification, or if they also require KYC, AML or enhanced SLAs, Blockpass is able to offer a full range of identity verification solutions.

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Rather than having to fill out the same KYC and AML forms over and over when transacting with other financial companies, users simply have to maintain one up-to-date profile, which is then shareable with anyone in the Blockpass ecosystem for instant onboarding, saving users from repeatedly re-doing and re-submitting the same forms, and saving companies the hassle of checking KYC and waiting on checks.

“Due to emerging technologies, Blockpass is not only able to offer a user-centric solution, but a faster, cheaper and more efficient one as well.”