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The coronavirus pandemic has reinforced the hunger to urge world leaders to take consistent action to fight climate chan...
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The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) draws a clear legal line between profit and harm. By...
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Faced with the urgent challenge of climate change, green bonds are emerging as an innovative response to finance sustain...
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With the rise of environmentally and socially conscious consumers, companies are under more pressure than ever to prove ...
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On November 12, 2018, the European Parliament issued new rules to strengthen the fight against money laundering through ...
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European Payments Package: PSD3 & PSR: What financial institutions need to prepare for
The European Commission's European Payments Package, consisting of the third Payment Services Directive (PSD3) and the new Payment Services Regulation (PSR), represents the most significant overhaul of EU payments regulation since PSD2 in 2015. Together, the directive and the regulation aim ...
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How to build an effective anti-bribery & corruption program
Your financial institution doesn’t have to be Enron to face a corruption scandal, but a plan to embed integrity deep within your operations is essential. Corruption doesn’t start with bribes but with blind spots in your controls. How does one create an effective anti-bribery & corruption pr...
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AML Package 2024–2026: What Financial Institutions Need to Know about AMLA, AMLR & TFR
The European Union has launched its most ambitious anti-money laundering (AML) reform to date. The “AML Package 2024–2026” introduces a new EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA), a directly applicable Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR), and an updated Transfer of Funds Regulation...
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Why is cash prevalent in money laundering?
Despite the growing prevalence of digital payment systems and tighter financial regulations, cash remains an attractive tool for criminals. Its intractability, portability, and its difficulty to regulate offers a level of anonymity that digital transactions simply cannot match. While government...
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DORA: practical guide for small businesses
Compliance with the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) represents a real challenge for small businesses in the financial sector. Unlike large institutions with dedicated cybersecurity and risk management departments, SMEs often lack specialized resources. They may not even have formal go...
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SEPA Instant Payments : understanding the requirements and deadlines of regulation 2024/886
AML, Compliance, Data Security, EU, Financial Institutions, GDPR, Know your Customer, KYC, Risk, instant payment, IPR, VoP, Transaction, Sanctions,The silent payments revolution is finally upon us. With the first compliance date of Regulation 2024/886 set for January 09, 2025, instant payments are set to become an integrated part of day-to-day banking. The Instant payment regulation (IPR) was ...
How important are audit trails for your company?
Financial firms, Audit, Ethics, Governance, Conduct Risk, RegTech, Transparency, Financial Institutions, AML, MiFID2, KYC,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 successive activities or events within an operational environment, a p...
How has Russia circumvented sanctions?
Corruption, Cryptocurrencies, Due Diligence, Europe, European Commission, Russia, Sanctions, Financial Sanctions,In the contemporary political and economic landscape, relations between Russia and the European Union (EU) are a theater where complex games of power, influence and rivalry are played out. At the heart of these interactions are sanctions, instruments...