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How important are audit trails for your company?
An audit trail (also called audit log) is a relevant chronological recording of actions, a set of files, or the destination of a collection of records that represent a sequence of succe...
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AML - Transaction Monitoring & Detection Scenarios
Efficiently fine-tuning AML Transaction Monitoring can help financial firm compliance teams to gain in productivity while carefully avoiding pointless investigations by reducing the amo...
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The UBO Register in practice | Belgium
Is the UBO Register useful during KYC processes?It was a tedious job to complete the UBO Register for companies. There were a number of start-up problems that made it difficult to trans...
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Look up company VAT number in Europe
How to find the VAT number of a counterparty or customer ?How can you, as a company or obliged entity, search for the VAT number of a counterparty or customer? Whether you are a comp...
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VAT carousel, fiction or truth for financial institutions ?
VAT Carousels - The look back in the transactions For several years there have been occasional stories of VAT carousels that are exposed after the facts and where banks then do a look b...
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GDPR Privacy Update: Fines, penalties and recent sanctions
It did not take long after the entry into force of GDPR on 25th May 2018 for many companies that remained sceptical about the idea that Europe would impose fines from the new data protection regulation, to revise their positions and business priorities. The reality of the number of financial sancti...
Protection of Whistleblowers : What is the EU framework?
On March 12 2019, the European Parliament and European Union Member States made a provisional agreement on how to protect whistleblowers. This new agreement guarantees a higher level of protection for whistleblowers than the level given in the original proposition of 23 April 2018. This agreement m...
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