Institutions which – through ignorance or a lack of solutions – fail to meet their obligations will not only be supporting fraud, which hampers the mission of making societies more just and inclusive but could also be intermediaries between financiers and dangerous terrorist groups.
Moreover, if money laundering crimes are reported, institutions that make them possible, even passively, run the risk of suffering high reputational losses, which usually translate into a substantial decrease in the stock market value of their shares and a loss of new clients.
In order to comply with the legislation, institutions required by law to have AML systems know that the financial burden of adjustments does not only arise from the acquisition of technology that supports signaling. On top of this comes the need to have human resources allocated to assessing suspicious cases – more than nine out of ten are false positives.

This factor represents a burden on Management, which has to have a large team to deal with this need.