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LexisNexis Risk Solutions has teamed up with Know Your Customer to provide an onboarding and KYC solution for its clients.

Meet KYC/KYB Compliance Obligations More Effectively ↗

What happened

• Know Your Customer's modular solution is delivered through a SaaS platform and a RESTful API.
• The KYC Data module provides real-time access to more than 500 local company registries worldwide.
• WorldCompliance Data includes almost two million structured PEP profiles.
• Screening is automated at onboarding and on an ongoing basis, and the article claims onboarding times can fall from up to 26 days to under one day.

Why it matters to Signicat

• The article's 26-day to one-day onboarding claim is vendor-stated and uncorroborated; it is an unverified benchmark for comparison pages.

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FATF's mutual evaluation report on India, published September 2024 after a November 2023 onsite inspection, rated India compliant or largely compliant with 37 of 40 Recommendations.

FATF’s new findings on AML/CFT compliance in India ↗

What happened

• FATF rated India's AML/CFT supervision (IO.3) at only 'moderate' effectiveness.
• RBI issued average monetary penalties of $87,000 to commercial banks, $4,350 to cooperative banks and $8,700 to NBFCs.
• FATF assessors said Indian supervisors rarely sanction responsible individuals, having only sanctioned entities.

Why it matters to Signicat

• FATF findings on weak customer risk profiling and CDD refresh in India indicate demand for screening and beneficial-ownership tooling in Signicat's Asia-Pacific-adjacent compliance market; direct relevance to Signicat's core European markets is low.
• LexisNexis is positioning its sanctions, PEP and adverse-media data as RegTech for AML/CFT compliance; this overlaps Signicat's Risk and AML screening line.

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LexisNexis announces its Financial Crime Digital Intelligence module on ThreatMetrix as a tool for detecting digital sanctions evasion.

FinCEN Issues Alert on Russian Sanctions Evasion ↗

What happened

• The module draws on intelligence from over 75 billion annual transactions, according to LexisNexis.
• Each transaction captures up to 10 geolocation signals, per LexisNexis.

Why it matters to Signicat

• The module targets location-based sanctions screening in digital channels, overlapping Signicat's AML/KYB screening and risk offering.
• The article is vendor marketing amplifying the claim that IP controls are insufficient; the claim is unverified and attributed to LexisNexis.

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905M human-initiated attacks of all kinds occurred in 2022, a 56% increase from the year prior, citing a LexisNexis Risk Solutions Cybercrime Report 2022.

The Rise in Scams: Why Institutions Must Prepare Now ↗

What happened

• The article reports that consumer reports of scams rose 44% between 2020 and 2022, with losses nearing $2.7 billion in 2022, citing the FTC Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2022.
• The article reports that 58% of US consumers are very likely or somewhat likely to leave their institution if it fails to reimburse scam losses, citing Datos Insights.
• The article promotes an ebook on detecting scams and warning consumers, covering three stages of a scam and detection capabilities.

Why it matters to Signicat

• The article is gated-content promotion with cited third-party statistics and no product specifics, so it carries limited competitive detail.

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LexisNexis reports 30,000+ fraud rings in 500,000 credit applications

Identity Fraud Rings ↗

What happened

• LexisNexis Risk Solutions reports that, in an analysis of 500,000 credit applications, it identified over 30,000 potential fraud rings.
• LexisNexis Risk Solutions reports that the average ring in its study contains 13 identities and averages 50 applications.
• LexisNexis Risk Solutions reports that wireless carriers were hit hardest by fraud rings at the time of its analysis.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Educational content on fraud rings and synthetic identity patterns; the article describes LexisNexis capability in ring detection, relevant to Signicat's document and risk screening positioning.

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LexisNexis says it analyzed half a billion applications from 2019 and 2020 and uncovered networks totaling over 30,000 potential fraud rings.

Are Fraud Rings Lurking in Your Portfolio? ↗

What happened

• LexisNexis reports the average identified ring contains 13 identities and averages 50 applications.
• LexisNexis reports fraud rings typically target bankcard, wireless and retail card industries, with wireless carriers hit hardest.
• LexisNexis cites FTC Consumer Sentinel data showing New Account Credit Card Fraud up 48% and New Account Bank Fraud up 87% year over year.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Original multi-signal analysis with hard numbers may be used by LexisNexis to position its fraud-ring detection against identity verification vendors.
• Fraud ring detection via SSN, address and contact signals sits upstream of document IDV, a Signicat-relevant area for fraud defense.

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LexisNexis SIU flags DMV identity risks in 2023 state data review

Analysis of State DMV Identities Reveals Vulnerabilities ↗

What happened

• LexisNexis Risk Solutions SIU conducted a 2023 review of one state's DMV data.
• The SIU population risk assessment examined more than two million state DMV records.
• The review investigated deceased, incarcerated, duplicate, stolen and synthetic identities, and insider threat.

Why it matters to Signicat

• The article is a gated-content marketing piece for government identity-data risk analysis, with no product launch or pricing.
• Public-sector identity-data risk analysis is a possible overlap with Signicat's public-sector identity work.

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LexisNexis Risk Solutions published an analysis of the Philippines' Republic Act 12010 (AFASA), signed in July 2024, which requires BSP-supervised financial institutions to implement proportionate fraud risk management systems.

Tackling Scams in the Philippines: What AFASA Means for Banks ↗

What happened

• The vendor positions its Digital Identity Network, ThreatMetrix, and BehavioSec behavioral biometrics to help banks detect mule networks, deepfakes, and authorized push payment scams.

Why it matters to Signicat

• The commentary is regional thought leadership focused on the Philippines and APAC, outside Signicat's core European footprint.
• The article demonstrates how global competitors pair regulatory obligations around authorized push payment fraud and money mules directly with behavioral biometrics and threat intelligence.

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LexisNexis Risk Solutions reports analysing about 7,000 mule transactions from the top five mule-risk countries at a Southeast Asian bank and identified a pattern where transactions near borders carried higher mule risk.

Mules financières et trafic d'êtres humains ↗

What happened

• LexisNexis Risk Solutions states its Digital Identity Network draws on shared global information from nearly three billion monthly transactions.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Thought-leadership content on device-sensor and geolocation fraud signals is relevant to Signicat's risk and AML screening line.

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Gleiches Ziel, unterschiedliche Zielgruppen

Gleiches Ziel, unterschiedliche Zielgruppen ↗

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The article cites a LexisNexis Risk Solutions study putting 2020 failed-payment costs at USD 118.5 billion.

Drei Schritte um Zahlungsausfälle zu begrenzen ↗

What happened

• The article states that a Checkout.com and Oxford Economics survey found 65% of merchants do not receive detailed failed-payment codes.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Low relevance to Signicat's identity, eID and signing lines; the piece concerns payment validation rather than identity verification.
• Content is a generic payments how-to with vendor-promotional framing; it does not announce a product or customer.

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