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Improving Transaction Monitoring Through Data Reconciliation and Financial Data Quality Analytics


Author: Md Shehab Hossain*, Saddam Nasir Chowdhury
Texas A & M University- Commerce, Master’s in Business Analytics
Published Date: 2023-12-29
Keywords: Transaction Monitoring, Data Reconciliation, Financial Data Quality Analytics, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Financial Crime Detection.
Abstract:

 Financial crime prevention should also deal with transaction monitoring, however, the quality of the data available to the transaction monitoring is typically insufficient, inconsistent or of low quality. In the present paper the importance of Data Reconciliation Tools and Financial Data Quality Analytics to achieve high quality and accuracy of the transaction monitoring systems is discussed. It talks about the common causes of data differences among the core banking systems, payment processors, and the external reporting systems, and how these differences can result in a false positive, missed alerts, as well as inefficient investigations. The study suggests a formal design, namely automatic data reconciliation, and real-time data quality examination. Matched data with enhanced quality scoring systems can help the financial institutions to achieve better accuracy in the generation of alerts, thereby minimizing operational noise. The paper also discusses how more complicated analytics (e.g., anomaly detection and pattern recognition) can be used to leverage quality data that has been reconciled to improve detection.It is offered with a conceptual implementation strategy on how these practices can be deeply embedded in the existing compliance systems by institutions without necessarily having to do a re-engineering of the system in its entirety. The findings suggest that the combination of the reconciliation processes, and the current data quality analytics can be used to improve the trustworthiness of the results of the transaction monitoring. This is not only efficient in enhancing regulatory compliance, but also operational efficiency and risk detection is more efficient in the financial systems today.