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AnalysisDigital Transformation, Third Party Risk Management and Trust on the agenda of day one at PrivSec Global
PrivSec Global’’s audience enjoyed a first day packed with sessions dedicated to key issues driving the data protection, privacy and security debate.
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Wildlife trafficking, RegTech and Measuring Effectiveness on the agenda of day one at FinCrime World Forum
FinCrime World Forum’s global audience enjoyed a first day packed with sessions dedicated to the key issues driving the financial crime debate.
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John Scanlon discusses the wildlife/FinCrime nexus at FinCrime World Forum
Before a global audience, Australian lawyer John Scanlon today presented his experiences of the illegal wildlife trade, and explored how the illicit industry props up international financial crime.
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Tackling Europe’s underground laundering networks
Burkhard Mühl is the head of Europol’s new European Financial & Economic Crime Centre and a speaker at FinCrime World Forum in June. Weeks after an influential Europol report shed light on the complexity and scale of laundering in Europe, he tells GRC World Forums of his plans to step up the fight against financial crime.
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Hear from “The man who took on Facebook and won” next week at PrivSec Global
Max Schrems, aka “The man who took on Facebook, and won” will be giving an exclusive keynote at PrivSec Global on Thursday 24 June at 2pm (BST).
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Stablecoins, Central Bank Digital Currencies and the future of digital money
Governments across the world are looking at setting up Central Bank Digital Currencies as a way of competing with ‘traditional’ cryptocurrencies and improving control. Experienced financial crime investigator Ari Redbold, ahead of his appearance at FinCrime World Forum, explains how he sees the future shaping up
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Key Theme: Trust
When it comes to data privacy and cybersecurity, trust needs to go hand in hand. It is an important aspect of running an enterprise sucessfully, as without trust businesses and organisations cannot grow. With this being a major topic at PrivSec Global next week, here we take a brief look into Trust.
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Keynote: Tackling the devastating impacts of wildlife trafficking
John Scanlon has been leading the charge to tackle wildlife trafficking and in June he will talk about the issue at FinCrime World Forum. Here, he explains how he is campaigning for a change to a key United Nations Protocol and how the Covid-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on the issue
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Key Theme: Digital Transformation
Without doubt, the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation and its rapidly evolving landscape has led businesses and organisations worldwide to adopt new practices and processes. With this being a major topic at PrivSec Global next month, here we take a look at some of the key aspects in digital transformation.
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Demystifying vaccine passes and the privacy challenge
The technology for open and secure vaccine passes is already here, but it will take more than technology to roll passes out effectively, says Eric Piscini, a speaker at next month’s PrivSec Global.
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Pooling obligations through fincrime utilities can help us be the ‘gatekeeper’
Helene Erftemeijer, ahead of her talk to GRC World Forums next month, discusses an innovative collective transaction monitoring project in the Netherlands and why we must break down siloes to keep up with the criminals
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The key theme: building next generation fincrime partnerships
Next month’s FinCrime World Forum will feature a whole stream of panel debates on future fincrime partnerships. Here we look at some of the eye-catching partnership projects from around the globe
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Pushing the pace of RegTech adoption to fight the criminals
Next month, Dr Sian Lewin will address FinCrime World Forum on the topic of removing barriers to RegTech adoption in financial crime. Here, she talks about the benefits of technological solutions and explains why the pace of adoption needs to speed up.
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The key theme: Aligning RegTech to FinCrime realities
Interest is growing in the use of RegTech solutions in financial crime and this will be a major topic at FinCrime World Forum next month. Here we take a look at some of the major technologies and techniques that could be utilised as well as some of the barriers to adoption
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‘AML is the least effective anti-crime measure anywhere, ever’
Outcomes scientist Dr Ron Pol has been ruffling feathers with his strong criticism of current anti money laundering (AML) frameworks. Ahead of his appearance at FinCrime World Forum next month, he argues current thinking is not working because it has no basis in effectiveness and outcomes science.
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The lowdown on South Africa’s long-awaited privacy act
Enforcement of South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) begins in July and businesses are rushing to make sure they comply in time. Nicole Gabryk, ahead of her appearance at PrivSec Global next month, explains the key planks of the legislation and how the act differs from GDPR.
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Measuring effectiveness: the $64,000 dollar question
How we define, measure and ultimately improve effectiveness is becoming a major topic in the world of financial crime. Ahead of her appearance at FinCrime World Forum, Gemma Rogers argues for a change in thinking in the sector.
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Qualified for the job: time for the role of DPO to become a protected title?
The role of Data Protection Officer is becoming more important as technology allows the sharing of data more quickly and on a much larger scale. Despite this, no minimum qualification is required to take on the role. The latest UK Data Protection Index reveals DPOs overwhelmingly want this to change, we look at the reasons why.
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The key theme: regulatory developments in the world of privacy and data protection
The privacy legislation picture is growing ever more complex with more countries adopting new laws all the time. A key theme of PrivSec Global next month will be focusing on these legislative changes and other regulatory developments and what they mean. Here we pick out several jurisdictions that are seeing major changes.
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The key theme: focusing effectiveness on tackling financial crime
Regulators, government departments, private businesses and law enforcement agencies carry out a huge amount of activity every single day to combat financial crime, but how much of it is actually effective? How do we measure and improve our effectiveness? Next month’s FinCrime World Forum global live stream experience will feature several sessions on this topics. To get you in the mood, Matthew Redhead explains the key issues and argues for a systemic approach
