Segunda edition congressional “Collaboration Public-private in the Fight Against the Financing of the Terrorism and the Radicalisms”
The congress, held in Madrid during the tomorrow of today, has had lectures of different experts in the prevention and fight against the financing of the terrorism and the radicalisms
The event, to that which have attended 200 specialists of the field of the prevention of the terrorism's financing, has been organised by the General Information Police station, within its commitment in the research and neutralisation of the serious menaces to the National Security
This edition has had the collaboration of the Executive body Service of the Fee of Prevention of the Monetary Money Laundering and Offences (SEPBLAC), of the AEB associations, ASNEF, CECA, UNACC and the company MasterCard
The National Police has organised in Madrid the second congressional “edition Collaboration Public-private in the Fight against the Financing of the Terrorism and the Radicalisms”. The meeting brought together numerous specialists in the field of preventing, detecting and combating the financing of terrorism. The meeting, organised by the General Information Police station, has had the collaboration of the Executive body Service of the Fee of Prevention of the Monetary Money Laundering and Offences (SEPBLAC), Spanish Banking Association (AEB), Financial Establishment National Association of Credit (ASNEF), savings banks and bank Association created by they (CECA), Credit cooperatives National Union (UNACC) and MasterCard.
Strengthen links between the National Police and the private organisations
In this second edition has been deepened in the support of the collaboration between the National Police and obliged subjects in the prevention and detection of the financing of the illicit terrorism and radicalisms for the good end of the police researches. For this, have been tackled during the meeting, in format of round tables, subject matters as “The Prevention of the Terrorism's Financing from the SEPBLAC”, “The Fight against the Financing of the Terrorism from the police”point of view, “The Use of the Artificial Intelligence for the prevention of the washing of capitals” and “Radicalisms, phenomena macrodesestabilizadores and counterproliferation”. Within the framework of this subject matter exist nationwide different working groups that they have as an object establish and strengthen the links with obliged subjects in the prevention and detection of the financing of the terrorism and radicalisms.
The meeting has begun with a first round table where, generally, the importance of the collaboration has been highlighted public-private in this fight, emphasising the intervention of the boss of operations of the Police station General of Information, Manuel Rodríguez, who has pointed out that: “The economic research supposes a basic in the combating terrorism and the radicalisms not only directed to the clearing up of the criminal offences of financing, but also to the related penal types to the activity of organisations. The collaboration of the private sector is essential so much for the preventive activity as for the neutralisation of the terrorist threat ”.
Furthermore, the director of the SEPBLAC, Pedro Comín, it has wanted emphasise that: “In this new congress have been able to check how the financing of the terrorism is still a relevant threat in a global world that makes good use of the technological innovation that is transforming our company in its own profit; that is why, that the collaboration public-private, which this congress is a good example, be a crucial factor so that with the assistance of the financial institutions and the rest of the obliged subjects prune anticipate us and prevent this seals”.
The prevention of the terrorism's financing
Analysts of the Unit of Financial Intelligence of Spain (SEPBLAC) have shared its experiences in the prevention when carry out its financial intelligence reports with the information contributed by the obliged subjects. This subject matter has been lowered by María Peco, of the Spanish Association of the Banking (AEB), that it has reviewed that: “The collaboration public-private, with which the financial institutions are fully committed, is essential to prevent and fight the financing of the terrorism. In a world as the actual, marked by the interconnection and the immediacy of the transaction, the knowledge of the tenancies observed by the authorities is vital to guarantee some effective”prevention measures.
During the congress, the responsible for research of the financing of the terrorism have explained the new discovered types in the researches to finance the terrorism and they have shared actual cases of concluded researches successfully in a space that it has been lowered by the corporate director of Risks and Fulfillment of CECA, Raquel Cabeza Pérez, who has wanted emphasise that: “The private sector is firmly committed in the fight against the financing of the terrorism, and the information supplied by the authorities on actual and warning signals cases, redounds in the great effectiveness of systems of prevention that they implement the companies”.
Use of the Artificial Intelligence for the prevention of the financing of the terrorism
Furthermore, Alberto López González, Product Management deputy chairman of Innovation in Cybersecurity of MasterCard, company sponsor of the event, has emphasised in its intervention that: “The money laundering has gone evolving throughout the years, and it has happened of being used masivamente cash and in banking transfers, to get around quickly and enter in any existing means of payment, such as cards or criptomonedas. In order to be able to detect and stop these transactions, from MasterCard take years working with the last Artificial Intelligence technology, to detect all the transactions suspected of be concerned in capital washing movements that involve our network. Our algorithms are able to identify them between the thousands of million transactions that they go through our network annually. Thanks to the acquired knowledge, are offering this technology also in the instantaneous payments, where have been able to identify and prevent until 120 million euros in scams and fraud. The instantaneous payments suppose be exposed to instantaneous fraud, which is why the use of the IA is done essential to avoid it”.
Finally, different specialists of the General Information Police station have tackled the subject matter of the illicit radicalisms, the phenomena macrodesestabilizadores and the counterproliferation, moderates by the person responsible for Prevention Fraud and Money Laundering of ASNEF, Juan José Matías González, which has reviewed that: “This type of events, are fundamental so that the financial sector acquires the necessary knowledges in order to achieving an improved efficiency in the fight against this seals social that represent the criminal offences related to the money laundering and the financing of the terrorism and, in turn, understand the important work that develop Security Forces and Bodies of the State in the public safety ”.
Furthermore, the representative of UNACC Cristina Freijanes has indicated that: «During the meeting celebrated today the importance of the collaboration has been highlighted public-private to fight the major threat that supposes for our company the financing of the terrorism. Share experiences between government institutions and financial institutions and be a day of the latest innovations is essential to be efficient in this task that it is of all”.