All Financial Crime articles – Page 8
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EventFraud & Loss Prevention: A one-day livestream experience
8 December 2021: A one-day livestream experience bringing together thought-leaders, experts and senior industry leaders to debate the latest issues surrounding fraud & loss prevention.
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NewsNew Zealand bank to pay penalty for money-laundering failures
The TSB in New Zealand has agreed to pay NZ$3.85m (US$2.67m, €2.27m) in penalties after acknowledging a failure to comply with anti-money laundering rules.
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NewsDutch turn AML spotlight on second-hand lease car trade
The government and banks in the Netherlands are turning their attention to the second-hand lease car market in their fight against money laundering.
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NewsEC proposes setting up AML agency
The European Commission plans to create an EU authority to fight money laundering, along with new legislation to strengthen anti-money laundering and countering terrorism financing (AML/CFT) rules.
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NewsIsle of Man refreshes AML strategy
The government of the Isle of Man – an important international banking centre – has released an updated policy to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.
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WebinarTackling the Expanding ‘Shadow IT’ Environment
The ever-growing extension of the official IT environment is one of the biggest challenges for digital forensics practitioners today.
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WebinarInstant payments need instant screening
Everyday millions, if not billions, of transactions flow through the financial system. At the same time the consumer and commercial demand for instant payments is increasing, shrinking the transaction processing window.
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NewsMalta ‘given deadline’ to exit FATF’s greylist
The Maltese government has reportedly agreed to implement an action plan with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to leave the organisation’s greylist by January 2023.
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NewsFinCEN has turned its attention to crypto
The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has identified cryptocurrencies as one of the anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) priorities.
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NewsHead of Guernsey’s new financial crime agency seeks tougher powers
Kevin Davis, director of the Economic and Financial Crime Bureau in Guernsey, is working on acquiring greater powers to seize illegally acquired cash and property.
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VideoThe Strength of the Pack - Partnerships to Tackle Illegal Wildlife
Financial crime professionals now recognise that cross-organisational partnerships are essential to countering criminal networks. This is especially the case with illegal wildlife trafficking, which, with its global reach and increasing complexity, demands a ‘whole-of-society’ and transnational approach.
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VideoScams: Fuelling the Crypto Fire : A presentation by Scott Johnston, Chainalysis
In its 2021 Crypto Crime Report, Chainalysis, a leading blockchain analysis company, found that scams – ranging from Darknet market abuse, extortion, phishing to Ponzi schemes – continue to be the highest-grossing forms of cryptocurrency-based crime, bringing in around $2.7 billion to criminals.
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VideoScanning the Virtual Horizon: The next steps for global Virtual Asset regulation
In March 2021, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the international standard setter for FinCrime, issued new guidelines on a risk-based approach to Virtual Assets and Virtual Asset Service Providers.
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VideoOff the Crypto Rollercoaster: Are stable coins and centralised digital currencies ‘safe’ alternatives?
In the face of soaring market values for a variety of cryptocurrencies, public authorities and established financial institutions across the world have been forced to start considering the implications of these assets’ wider usage. Cryptocurrencies are no longer seen to be a ‘fringe’ interest, or of little relevance to the wider economy.
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VideoCrypto 2.0 – New ways of performing old tricks? Exploring Crypto Typologies with Nick Furneaux
Any sufficiently new technology can seem like magic to the uninitiated, and it can become easy to assume that its abuse by criminals is equally magical and just as perplexing. It can also become a natural next step to assume that there is a particular type of ‘crime’ inherent to the new technology in question.
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VideoThe Real Ingredients of Virtual Compliance ‘Baking-in’ FinCrime good practice from the start
For entrepreneurs in any space there is often a desire to do things ‘differently’. Indeed, that is a prime motivation: to deliver a new product to customers. It can be tempting to focus on getting this right, providing a high-quality customer experience, and stimulating growth, to the exclusion of other concerns. Although compliance, regulation and risk management do not get ignored, they can slip down the list of priorities.
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VideoFinCrime’s Wider Responsibility- Environmental, Social and Governance Reporting in FinCrime Compliance A presentation by Michael Rasmussen
In a world increasingly concerned with nurturing sustainability, businesses now take a greater interest in the wider impacts that they have on the environments and societies in which they operate.
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VideoFrom Regulator to Crisis Manager: A conversation with James H. Freis, Jr. - former CEO of Wirecard AG
Faced with fines and censure for financial crime failings over recent years, several major financial institutions have recruited senior figures from the regulatory world, along with their reputations for integrity, to help them tackle the problem.
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VideoThe Key to FinCrime? Encryption, Privacy Enhancing Technologies and the data-sharing challenge
A common refrain amongst FinCrime professionals is that it would be easier to take on the criminals if they were more readily able to share sensitive information between organisations.
