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Co-founder and CEO of Cable | On a mission to reduce financial crime in the world

The Wolsberg Group have released a statement on Effective Monitoring for Suspicious Activity. Some of the areas that it highlights are: -Monitoring for suspicious activity (MSA) is wider than transaction monitoring. It needs to encompass ongoing CDD, TM and other monitoring that takes into account a wider set of attributes. -Today’s MSA programs are broken. They apply the same rules across all customers and products and focus on observed risks versus the effectiveness of the rules. -FIs need to leverage their data to assess the effectiveness of their MSA program. -They specifically call out “control oversight mechanisms” as one of the areas that is ripe for innovation. -Traditional customer segmentation is outdated and because it’s based on static customer attributes; it does not consider common transaction activity among segments. Segments should instead consider a mix of known attributes and statistical clustering. Overall I read this as... Effectiveness matters!! Let me know if I have missed any key takeaways in the comments, and would love to hear how people think this will be used in practice. https://lnkd.in/dTMuP9_T

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