Select a Casino Anti-Money-Laundering Compliance Solution
Your casino is at risk from both regulatory fines and negative media. Protect your casino by selecting a system to support your anti-money-laundering compliance program.
- Compliance is risk-based, meaning there is no one solution for all casinos. Each casino has to tailor its compliance system to the risks associated with its size, location, regulatory environment, and customers.
- Regulators expect casinos to use all available resources to identify threats, including all available information and the latest technology to capture it.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- AML compliance requires use of all sources of information. This is an opportunity to gather business intelligence on some of your most valuable customers.
- A casino is a financial institution in the eyes of the regulators. Casinos need to adapt the best practices of banking to the world of gaming.
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning provide a deeper search on high-risk individuals, but they also create false positives that require analysts to resolve.
Impact and Result
- Ensure the IT team understands their roles and responsibilities prior to implementation to help ease the transition into this new system.
- Identify the AML requirements for both know-your-customer (KYC) information and transaction monitoring systems.
- Use the accompanying vendor landscape to evaluate the leading products in the market space according to your particular risk-based scenario.
Workshop: Select a Casino Anti-Money-Laundering Compliance Solution
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Identify Project Drivers
The Purpose
- Identify the project drivers and challenges for your AML project.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A 360-degree view of IT stakeholders
- Clear understanding of the criteria to measure success for AML compliance
Activities
Outputs
Assess your current AML compliance challenges and project drivers.
- An assessment of the importance of the project in the context of the larger organization
Conduct a thorough analysis, including SWOT, as an early step to charting your AML compliance project.
Module 2: Define the Current State of AML Compliance
The Purpose
- Review the current risk profile of the casino for money laundering.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Clear understanding of the current state of the AML program
Activities
Outputs
Review the structure of your casino’s AML risk model.
- A summary of current risk model
Module 3: Identify Current Limitations and Pain Points
The Purpose
- Gain an understanding of the pain points and limitations with the current AML processes.
- Seek out ways for IT to support the AML program.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Buy-in from the AML stakeholders for IT’s involvement
- Clear understanding of the high-level requirements for the AML program
Activities
Outputs
Conduct interviews with the stakeholders involved with key processes in the AML program.
- An overview of the current AML system
- Understanding of the challenges the stakeholders face in successfully implementing the program requirements
- The opportunities for IT to support the existing processes and resolve any outstanding limitations of the current program
Establish metrics to measure success in both AML compliance and in the project of selecting an IT solution for the program.
- A list of metrics to measure the success of the project and program
Module 4: Assess the AML Vendor Landscape
The Purpose
- Consider and understand the AML solution decision tree.
- Review the AML vendor landscape.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Understanding of AML vendor profiles and use cases for KYC and transaction monitoring solution providers
Activities
Outputs
Create initial vendor shortlist.
- Shortlist of a maximum of three or four potential AML RFP participants
Module 5: Conduct AML Requirements Gathering
The Purpose
- Conduct AML requirements gathering.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Alignment between your organization’s key AML solution requirements and those of the shortlisted vendors
Activities
Outputs
Conduct requirements and specifications gathering to identify optimal components of an AML solution.
- Requirements and specifications of the target AML solution
Module 6: Create an AML RFP
The Purpose
- Create an RFP to submit to AML vendors.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Method to convey your AML program requirements to vendors while following the proposal and procurement steps set by your organization
Activities
Outputs
Create an RFP to submit to AML vendors.
- Completed AML Solution RFP Template to document and communicate your AML solution requirements to vendors
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Guided Implementation 1: Define the current state of AML
- Call 1: Conduct a scoping call.
- Call 2: Conduct a SWOT analysis.
- Call 3: Summarize your risk model.
- Call 4: Identify key stakeholders in your AML program.
Guided Implementation 2: AML vendor evaluation and selection
- Call 1: Review the vendor landscape.
- Call 2: Discuss the best solution based on stakeholder feedback.
- Call 3: Identify requirements.
Contributors
- R. Sheridan K. Smith, IT Executive, Bermuda Monetary Authority
- Kevin Huddleston, Partner, Finley-Cook
- Rachel Loudon, Compliance Manager, Finley-Cook
- Bill Scheib, Gaming Technical Advisor, Citizen Potawatomi Nation
- Ram Patrachari, CIO/VP of Information Technology, Viejas Enterprises
- BJ Bouschor, Vice President of Information Technology, FireKeepers Casino and Hotel
- Jeffery Crisp, Controller, FireKeepers Casino and Hotel
- Michael Bevacqua, Compliance Officer, Seneca Casino