All FinCrime World Forum articles – Page 4
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EventHow do we measure effectiveness? FinCrime World Forum shines a spotlight
Experts at FinCrime World Forum have asked how the public and private sectors can better measure the effectiveness of action taken in the fight against financial crime.
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AnalysisJohn 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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EventPrivSec Global & FinCrime World Forum is live!
Two live and on-demand livestream experiences, brought to you by GRC World Forums will get underway this morning.
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ArticlePrivSec Global and FinCrime World Forum go live tomorrow
Starting tomorrow, PrivSec Global and FinCrime World Forum will bring together leading experts from around the globe to address the fragmented privacy, cyber, and AML challenges worldwide.
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AnalysisTackling 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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WebinarThe future of AML– How Customer Intelligence is the basis of truly risk-based AML
Join Lucinity and Currencycloud as we cover innovative ways of understanding customer behavior through insights derived from KYC, transaction monitoring, screening and other data sources to create a holistic view of the customer.
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AnalysisStablecoins, 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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FeatureKey Theme: Virtual Assets in the FinCrime Mainstream
With FinCrime World Forum taking place on 22-23 June, Nick Furneaux, MD at CSITech and CTO at Asset Reality, gives us an introduction into one the key themes ’Virtual Assets in the FinCrime Mainsteam.’
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AnalysisKeynote: 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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AnalysisPooling 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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FeatureTwo must attend livestream experiences - PrivSec Global & FinCrime World Forum
Next month, GRC World Forums will kick off Tuesday 22nd June with the first day of two live and on-demand livestream experiences.
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AnalysisThe 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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Analysis‘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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AnalysisMeasuring 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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AnalysisThe 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
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VideoDue Diligence in the Age of Digital ID. A Revolution in Anti-Financial Crime?
Knowing and trusting who customers are is the primary responsibility of due diligence.
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VideoTechnological Promises, Criminal Realities. A conversation between Julian Dixon and Oliver Bullough
In the past decade, the ‘Regulatory Technology’ sector, or ‘RegTech’, has developed quickly in response to the need to manage existing financial crime risks better, enabled by the growing capacity and capability of evolving technologies themselves.
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VideoThe transparency illusion- UK companies and the Beirut Explosion
The explosion in Beirut was allegedly the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. But it has since emerged that the cause of the explosion was Ammonium Nitrate owned by a dormant UK company.
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VideoCase Study: The Role of Digital Behavior in Identifying Mule Accounts
Money mules have become a modern day gold rush for cybercriminals.
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VideoTransforming Compliance into Risk Management. A presentation by Michael Rasmussen
Regulators consistently talk about the need for a ‘risk-based approach’ to financial crime, and many organisations have created ‘risk management’ functions to complement, and in some cases replace, legacy compliance functions. This shift is based on a recognition that it is not just what you do, it is how you do it that matters. Financial criminals are agile and reflexive, and those that seek to stop them need to be so in response.