Norkom Technologies and Datamonitor host free webinar

Sydney, (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - Norkom Technologies, leading provider of financial crime and compliance software to the global financial services industry, has announced that it will hold a free webinar with guest speaker, Damien Shaw-Williams, senior analyst with Datamonitor, at 2pm EST on Thursday, 6th March 2008.

Entitled, "Securing the future: Enterprise-wide financial crime management and beyond", this 45-minute virtual event will explore new research, conducted by Datamonitor and Norkom, which reveals that a radical change is taking place in the way financial services providers manage regulatory compliance and financial crime.

The webinar will examine how leading financial service providers are embracing an enterprise-wide risk-based approach to financial crime management.

The new research also claims that:

More than half of all global tier one financial service providers have consolidated AML and fraud prevention across the enterprise 47% have centralized management structures by establishing Financial Intelligence Units, with a further 14% planning to do so within the next 12 to 24 months.

Risk-based approach and customer due diligence are the new priorities.

According to Paul Kerley, Norkom's CEO, "As we predicted, enterprise-wide financial crime management is now a reality in most major financial institutions, with those organisations seeing significant improvements in detection rates and cost reductions as a result. Organisations are now focusing their attention on successfully adopting a risk based approach - not just for AML as the regulator requires - but for all areas of financial crime. And they expect these two new priorities to deliver even greater business benefits".

To participate in this free webinar, simply click on the link below to register:
http://www.norkom.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/325
Other international time zones:
11.00am to 11.45am HKT / SGT
12.00pm to 12.45pm JST / KST
2.00pm to 2.45pm EST

About Norkom Technologies

Norkom Technologies is a market-leading provider of innovative financial crime and compliance solutions to the global financial services industry.

Norkom's software has been described as 'outclassing our competitors' by the analyst group, Celent, and as an 'effective enterprise wide financial crime management solution' by Gartner. Used by clients in over 100 countries, including HSBC, Credit Agricole, Fortis, and Rabobank, Norkom is proven to reduce financial losses, protect reputation, improve operational efficiencies and lower the total cost of ownership. Norkom has operations across North America, Asia Pacific and Europe.

Media Contact:
Contact Fiona McLoughlin, Marketing Manager, Norkom Technologies,
on +353-1-8739612 or email fiona.mcloughlin@norkom.com
To find out more, visit http://www.norkom.com

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Enterprise Wide Financial Crime Management becomes mainstream

Leading Financial Service Providers are Embracing an Enterprise Wide Risk Based Approach to Financial Crime Management, Says Datamonitor & Norkom More than half of all major global financial service providers have consolidated AML and fraud prevention across the enterprise Almost half have centralised management structures by establishing Financial Intelligence Units Risk-based approach and customer due diligence are the new priorities

Sydney (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - New research, carried out by Datamonitor on behalf of Norkom Technologies, confirms that a radical change has taken place in the way financial services providers manage regulatory compliance and financial crime. Our respondents -- senior decision makers in global financial services institutions -- are combining their management of both activities on an enterprise wide basis. This change was predicted by the same research programme one year ago, though at that stage, only an enlightened minority had begun the consolidation process.
Today's research makes it clear that enterprise wide management is now a firmly established business approach.

Almost three quarters (73%) of respondents -- leaders in global tier one institutions -- confirm that they are managing anti-money laundering (AML) in tandem with other types of financial crime. More than half (53%) have achieved this on an enterprise wide basis, embracing all geographies and business lines.

20% are progressing towards this goal, having achieved it in some territories.
47% of respondents say they have established Financial Intelligence Units in order to overcome the organisational barriers traditionally associated with enterprise wise management and to centrally manage investigative resources. A further 14% plan to do so within the next 12 to 24 months.

"As we predicted, enterprise wide financial crime management is now a reality in most major financial institutions, with those organisations seeing significant improvements in detection rates and cost reductions as a result," says Norkom's CEO, Paul Kerley.

"Organisations are now focusing their attention on successfully adopting a risk based approach -- not just for AML as the regulator requires -- but for all areas of financial crime. And they expect these two new priorities to deliver even greater business benefits."

87% of institutions report that they have experienced or expect to experience improvements in crime detection capability as a result of their enterprise wide approach; 80% say they've experienced or expect cost savings.

But 93% agree that the business benefits of a risk based approach to customer due diligence and ongoing monitoring will be even greater.

"A risk based approach -- in which the extent of monitoring attention given to an individual account or customer is directly commensurate with the degree of business risk they pose -- is now a regulatory requirement within AML," explains Kerley. "But far sighted organisations have recognised the potential for commercial benefit, too, and will extend this approach to all areas of financial crime. Costs will reduce as detection accuracy and investigative efficiency improves.

Customer responsiveness will also rise, since low risk new business will be able to be brought onto book more quickly."

To obtain your copy of the research report: 'Securing the Future Against Financial Crime: Enterprise wide management and beyond' email marketing@norkom.com

Norkom is a market-leading provider of innovative financial crime and compliance solutions to the global financial services industry.

Used by clients in over 100 countries, including HSBC, Credit Agricole, Fortis, Rabobank, and Washington Mutual, Norkom is proven to reduce financial losses, protect reputation, improve operational efficiencies and lower total cost of ownership. Norkom has operations across North America, Asia Pacific and Europe.

Norkom media contact:
Hilary Duffy,
Marketing Manager,
Norkom Technologies,
Tel: +353-85-121-9414
hilary.duffy@norkom.com
http://www.norkom.com
CONTACT: Hilary Duffy,
Marketing Manager of Norkom Technologies,
+353-85-121-9414,
hilary.duffy@norkom.com Web site: http://www.norkom.com
SOURCE: Norkom

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