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Impact Of Lexicon Based Detection On Surveillance Efficiency

  The lexicon-based detection system is used to detect risks in electronic communication. Most of the time it gets the job done, but sometimes lexicon-based analysis creates huge inefficiency and potential risks. The lexicon-based system is developed around alerts, These alerts are triggered whenever a certain keyword is used in conversation or in online chat. The biggest problem of this system is the return of false-positive results. Approximately 3,000 alerts may be produced daily, from a total of 75,000 messages collected and analyzed. Therefore, The large number of alerts produces a lot of burden on compliance surveillance teams, Especially when we know that the current market norm of a false-positive rate is 95 to 99.9%. Overall, a lexicon-based detection system is not just an ineffective solution to combat market manipulation and abuse, but it also puts more workload on analysts who have to achieve regulatory compliance through these alerts. Change in communication platform...

Is Work from Home New Normal? - Sheild

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  The global workplace environment has been altered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic's economic and labor disruptions. For many people, working from home has become more of a permanent aspect. Governments and corporate entities have adopted a hybrid work paradigm as a result of experiments such as 50% or less attendance to limit physical contact and make offices safe during the COVID-19 pandemic  to make post covid new normal .  The mixed work style necessitates time spent at both the office and at home. Work from home has become the new normal in many Indian states, which are currently dealing with the second wave of the pandemic. In certain states, the government has mandated a hybrid work arrangement that divides weekdays evenly between office work and home-based work.  These days, many office buildings have vacancies. London, New York City, and other financial hubs have been particularly heavily damaged... Google, WeWork, and JP Morgan, among New York's bigge...

What is AI Powered Surveillance? | Sheild

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  As we know that Artificial Intelligence has become an integral part of Financial Services. For companies looking to increase their value, AI technologies such as machine learning can help improve loan underwriting and reduce financial risk with the help of AI. You have heard of Financial services and market fraud that are the two words that you wouldn't expect to hear in the context of a technology frontier. Nonetheless, this is the image presented by five of the world's major financial authorities in their recent RFI (Request for Information). After this we must ask the question that is there any unconscious bias that has inadvertently been built into the models? Indeed, the answers might reveal a darker side of financial transactions, one that hasn't been seen in over two decades, when the FBI raided Enron's headquarters and also how the AI Powered Surveillance is neglected. Let's look at how implicit bias appears to have sneaked into financial risk assessment...

Who is Responsible for the Great Resignation Wave?

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  In July 2021, 4 million Americans left their jobs their jobs, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. With 10.9 million available positions at the end of July, resignation peaked in April and has stayed extremely high for several months. In the face of such a tidal great resignation wave , how can employers keep their employees? Understanding these startling figures is the first step toward addressing their core causes. The reference of 9 million employee records shows that more than 4,000 firms determine who has been driving this recent movement. This global dataset included employees from a variety of industries, functions, and levels of skill, it highlighted two major trends: 1. Employees in Their Mid-Career Have the Greatest Resigning Rates Employees aged 30 and 45 have faced the biggest increase in resignation rates between 2020 and 2021 due to this pandemic(Covid 19), with an overall gain of more than 20%. The research shows that younger employees are more likely to...

4 Ways How AI Can Help Financial Services Compliance and Risk in the Future

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been embedded in many aspects of business, public life, and politics in recent years. However, as AI becomes more common in people's lives. AI is becoming increasingly relevant in regulatory compliance as it addresses typical operations obstacles and systemic concerns that regulators confront on a daily basis, in addition to upgrading data management practices by employing cloud-based technology. Alert Transparency capabilities , use artificial intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing, and other backend technologies to provide compliance alerts and triggers. Questions have arisen about how AI can help financial services compliance and risk in the future, read these points to solve this question. Management of Regulatory Change To successfully handle regulatory change management, Financial services have to combine the content of thousands of regulatory papers. Regulatory changes need changes that require collaboration among many business units ...

Work - Monday Morning Quarterbacking

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This post was initially posted on our LinkedIn Newsletter Work . Amidst the remote work insurgency, you'd imagine that the working environment turns out to be more loose and jaunty. What's more, in this pseudo-post-pandemic period, you'd believe that social occasion again face to face to gather together to celebrate at the yearly occasion party would be greeted wholeheartedly. Not really! Special times of year are viewed as the most distressing season. It's not only the year-end push that adds strain to a labor force that is now street exhausted subsequent to placing in one more year behind the work area or seat or any place the work is finished. What's more we should not weaken the effect of the December factor with regards to finishing bargains, meeting shares, etc. These measurements make added strain for everybody during this season. Here's the place where special times of year, Monday early daytime Quarterbacking, a poisonous work culture, and innovation c...

Proliferation of Pump & Dump Schemes - Shield

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Market control plans alluded to as 'pump and dump' are not new. Truth be told, concerns were being brought up in the US Senate as soon as the 1930s, however what's happening are a portion of the manners by which these false plans are currently being run. Yet, before we dive into the subtleties, we should return to rudiments… . What is a 'Pump and Dump' plot? 'Pump and dump' (additionally alluded to as 'slope and dump') plots basically have two sections. First and foremost, the culprits organize a mission to blow up ('pump') the cost of a stock with bogus or deluding data. Furthermore, when the cost has been misleadingly expanded, the culprits sell their own property ('dump') harvesting the benefits. Obviously, different financial backers eventually become presented to a drop in the market cost because of the deal action. What's more, when the fraudsters stop their market control crusades, the leftover financial backers are left w...