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Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) drafted by financial institutions contain some of the most valuable information availa...
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The Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessment (EWRA) or Overall Risk Assessment has become a regulatory obligation from an EU and ...
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The understanding and management of risk by financial institutions, banks, and entities, has improved over the years. To...
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For one week, from the 13th to the 18th October, representatives of 205 countries and jurisdictions, the IMF, UN, World ...
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In today’s financial challenging environment, institutions are exposed to numerous economic abuses making it necessary...
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While the world is on hold, financial crime has not taken a step back amidst the coronavirus emergency. Scammers, money...
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How to conduct KYC on Russian Counterparties ?Doing business with Russian entities in non-sanctioned sectors of the econ...
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Each year we are entitled to different lists about tax havens issued by governments or international organisations, but ...
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Efficiently fine-tuning AML Transaction Monitoring can help financial firm's compliance teams to increase productivit...
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How to write the perfect SAR?
Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) drafted by financial institutions contain some of the most valuable information available to law enforcement agencies in the fight against financial crime. Yet, the FinCEN Files scandal of 2020 has shown that major banks have consistently failed to write and s...
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Why do most AML programs fail?
Despite the consistent efforts adopted by banks to fight money laundering and financial crime, fines for AML breaches have hit an all-time high. In 2020, financial institutions were fined a grand total of $15.13 billion (€12.79 billion) worldwide, a 51.3% increase compared to 2019, with U...
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What are the impacts of Financial Data Leaks?
In the past decade, a series of leaks from insider sources have shed light on the complex systems of money laundering, tax evasion, and fraud perpetrated by certain countries and wealthy individuals. The profound work carried out by international journalists in publishing the wrongdoings have ...
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AML: What is adverse media or negative news?
The digital era has given KYC analysts unprecedented access to a plethora of information on individuals and companies. Newspaper articles, online blogs, and social media are accessible and filterable with one click and may reveal important news on a financial institution’s customer. However, ...
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Financing terrorism: The billion-dollar blood antiquities art dealing
The destruction of the ancient city of Palmyra and the beheading of its Antiquities Chief, Khaled al-Asaad, in 2015 by the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq & Syria (ISIS) are still fresh in the minds of many. Beginning in 2014, the terrorist group has wrecked havoc across the Middle East and...
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6th AML Directive (AMLD6) : The European Harmonization
AML, Financial Sanctions, European Commission, Financial firms, 6AMLD, Compliance, Money Laundering, Europe, EU, Environmental, Anti Money Laundering, Green Crime,On November 12, 2018, the European Parliament issued new rules to strengthen the fight against money laundering through the 6th EU Money Laundering Directive (2018/1673). Member States have until 3 December 2020 to transpose the Sixth AML Directive a...
How and why to embed AML Lookbacks within financial firms?
Money Laundering, AML, Audit, Audit Findings, Financial operations, Due Diligence, Financial firms,In recent years, regulators have begun to scrutinize more closely financial institutions regarding the soundness of their AML/CTF program, dissecting the nuts and bolts of their procedures and controls. But the current set-up isn’t what they are s...
How is BMR changing the landscape of benchmarks?
Compliance, European Commission, Europe, BMR, Benchmark Regulation, Euribor, , Eonia,The recent creation of Benchmark Regulation has been the catalyst for a major transition from the old regime of benchmarks towards new and alternative reference rates set to transform the world of finance. In the past years, a global benchmark refor...