All Financial Crime articles – Page 9
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VideoFrom Siloes to Systemic Solutions: FinCrime Utilities - Long term solutions?
FinCrime professionals often argue that one of the major challenges they face is the fragmentation of the anti-FinCrime effort: not only between the public and private sectors, but between firms themselves.
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VideoTackling the Dark Underbelly of the Illegal Wildlife Trade
Anti-financial crime practitioners know that the illicit trade in wildlife has become a major source of illicit funds in the global criminal economy. But what do practitioners know about how the criminals conduct their business?
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VideoFighting Kleptopia - A conversation with Tom Burgis, author of ‘Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World’
Even a decade ago, the emergence of kleptocracy – a political system where leaders use their positions of power to enrich themselves – was seen by those living in ‘developed’ states as being a marginal risk that affected only poor or undemocratic societies.
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VideoFinCrime’s Pivotal Moment - A conversation with Burkhard Mühl
The 2021 Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (SOCTA) from Europol, the EU’s policing agency, made for sombre reading. According to the report, organised criminality in Europe is more complex and fluid than ever before, with different criminal gangs working together ‘as needed’, on the basis of mutual self-interest.
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VideoA Gulf to Cross The Middle East’s Race to Comply
According to critics, the past prosperity of some Middle Eastern countries has been supported not only by the flow of oil into the global economy, but by corruption and illicit funds.
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VideoThe Next Step with RegTech A panel interview with the Napier team
Regulatory Technology (RegTech) for the FinCrime space is now a multi-billion-dollar global industry, and is being promoted by leading regulators as an important new weapon in compliance and risk management.
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VideoBiden’s Radical Agenda? Jim Richards on the Implications for the Fight Against FinCrime
The Biden Presidency – less than six months old – has been a surprise to many who expected that the vicissitudes of the past four years and the challenges of the pandemic would lead to a period of stability over change. Instead, President Biden seems to have decided to take a different approach, pushing forward with far-reaching economic policies such as the extensive COVID-19 relief act. As some have suggested, if Biden campaigned as a moderate, he appears eager to govern as a radical.
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VideoPushing for the RegTech Revolution Removing the barriers to adoption in FinCrime
In a recent report, the City of London Corporation has argued that the financial services sector needs to leverage new regulatory technologies (RegTech) to meet their obligations and fight financial crime. The report follows a succession of other statements from leading regulators in the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific, all making similar points.
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VideoUnited We Stand The potential for integrated FinCrime teams and controls
The problem of fragmentation affects the world of FinCrime in many ways. Within compliance and risk management functions, the past isolation of AML, fraud and sanctions teams has led to key risks falling between the institutional gaps – a problem exacerbated when the teams use different platforms and data streams.
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VideoBeyond the Banking Bubble Leveraging technology lessons from other industries
In the last few years, financial services providers and Regulatory Technology (RegTech) firms have talked a great deal about the deployment of new data-driven technologies, usually with a focus on automation and supervised machine learning to core compliance tasks such as sanctions screening and transaction monitoring.
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VideoThe Last Lines of Defence - Strengthening the professions’ fight against FinCrime
Most public attention on the private sector’s efforts against FinCrime is devoted to the role of financial institutions, and in particular, banks. This is quite logical, given the centrality of their roles as the gatekeepers of the financial system, and the parts they have unwittingly played in moving illicit funds around the global economy.
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VideoCultural Capital - Can we achieve a positive FinCrime ‘compliance culture’?
For most of the last decade, regulators have encouraged financial institutions to instil a positive compliance culture amongst staff to help ensure that they meet their FinCrime obligations. ‘Tone from the top’ is a phrase that has often been invoked to emphasise the need for business leaders to lead the way for their teams in this.
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VideoAbove the Law? The challenge of bringing financial criminals to justice
The social restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic have been a major impediment to financial criminals, who rely on easy access to the financial system to move dirty money.
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VideoMoving the Needle - Defining, measuring, and improving FinCrime effectiveness
Many key players in the FinCrime world have been seeking to define the term ‘effectiveness’. Following the lead of the global standard setters, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), most regulators have sought to assess the issue through subjective evaluations of ‘how well’ businesses meet their compliance obligations.
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VideoPutting Corruption on Notice Bill Browder in conversation with Oliver Bullough
Leading international law enforcement agencies such as Europol tell us that corruption has become one of the most vital enablers of serious organised crime and financial criminality – and a problem that touches not only so-called ‘high risk’ emerging markets, but developed societies too.
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VideoA Talk on the Wild Side - A conversation on the Wildlife-FinCrime nexus with John Scanlon
The potential link between the illegal wildlife trade and the spread of COVID-19 has focused attention once again on the trafficking and exploitation of wild animals, as well as plants.
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VideoComplying with Diversity Building an inclusive Compliance profession
Critics often complain that the compliance profession is something of a closed-shop for white, middle-class men who have worked for decades in the financial services sector, and dominate the top tiers of senior management in the field.
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EventFinCrime World Forum day two explores cryptocurrencies, kleptocracies and FinCrime in the MENA region
FinCrime World Forum’s second day has delivered another agenda packed with fascinating ideas and insight into the current and emerging landscape of global financial crime.
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EventFinCrime World Forum focusses on the stark reality of financial crime facing the EU, with Europol’s Burkhard Mühl
Day two of FinCrime World Forum begins with an investigation into the sheer scale and complexity of the financial crime crisis facing governments across Europe and beyond
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AnalysisWildlife 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.
