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Deutsche Bank Says Software to Detect Money Laundering Had a Bug

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Re: Deutsche Bank Says Software to Detect Money Laundering Had a Bug

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Bug or feature? Also, wonder how they're verifying "The bank maintained that no suspicious transactions had slipped through as a result."

1. fix bug, run through the data again

or

2. get a bunch of low level analysts or interns to review all past transactions

Re: Deutsche Bank Says Software to Detect Money Laundering Had a Bug

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post #3

It would be interesting to know what the bug is. I can't translate the German site as I can't really get to it due to a popup. A math problem, just not checking some transactions, something else?

"In one of these applications, two of the 121 parameters were not defined correctly. What the exact parameters are, the speaker did not want to say."

Is all the further information in the German article.

Re: Deutsche Bank Says Software to Detect Money Laundering Had a Bug

#7

Bug or feature? Also, wonder how they're verifying "The bank maintained that no suspicious transactions had slipped through as a result."

They should do some back testing to verify the validity of the updated software. This would uncover past fraudulent activity and possibly any new bugs introduced by the fix.

Re: Deutsche Bank Says Software to Detect Money Laundering Had a Bug

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post #6
post #3

It would be interesting to know what the bug is. I can't translate the German site as I can't really get to it due to a popup. A math problem, just not checking some transactions, something else?

"In one of these applications, two of the 121 parameters were not defined correctly. What the exact parameters are, the speaker did not want to say." Is all the further information in the German article.

Thank you.
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