More from Banking, Financial Services & Insurance – Page 5
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VideoNew Machine Learning, Financial Crime & Tax Evasion Risks in 2022: A Deep Dive Into The Key Learning Points for Your Compliance Programme
Businesses have to follow quite a few requirements which this session will take a look into including: · Effective reporting · Staying aware of high-risk customers · A compliance officer in the team
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NewsFinCrime Global explores compliance and FinTech in the fight against financial crime
Regulatory compliance and financial technology took centre stage on day one of FinCrime Global.
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NewsFinancial crime landscape remaining volatile as pandemic recovery continues
Suspicious activity reports (SARS) and cybercrime fears are among chief concerns for businesses on the financial crime landscape, specialists say.
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NewsEurope to toughen up on crypto transfers to close net on financial criminals
The European Union is making moves to shore up security around the transfers of cryptocurrency as part of a programme of measures designed to enhance governance and control in the rapidly evolving crypto sector.
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NewsFinCrime Focus: Sanctions takes audiences to the heart of the fight against financial crime
Yesterday at FinCrime Focus: Sanctions, experts gave their views into the laws and multinational initiatives defining the global sanctions landscape at a crucial time in the fight against the financial criminals.
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VideoMove Towards Sanctions for Cyber, Corruption, Election Fraud, Climate Control and Human Rights: What to expect in 2022 and Beyond?
Companies often resist government mandates or say that no single set of regulations can capture the challenge of locking down different kinds of computer networks. This session takes a look at what companies can and should be doing in 2022.
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VideoUnpacking US Finance Regulatory Developments: Cryptocurrency, CBDC, and Sanctions
David Rowe-Francis, Founder of Praxis Compliance Consultants talks to Amanda Wick, former FinCEN and DOJ attorney about the impact of President Biden’s recent executive order on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) and the challenges of regulation and enforcement.
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VideoThe FATF’s Revised Recommendations and Proliferation Financing Targeted Financial Sanctions: Bridging the Gap between a Rules-Based Standard and a Risk-Based Approach
Striking the balance between the rules-based standard and the risk based-approach creates new requirements for obliged entities and beyond.
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VideoA Look at the Development of new Russian and Belarusian Sanctions Regimes with an emphasis on the Development of Countermeasures and the use of Crypto in Light of the Current Situation in Ukraine
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) observed that economic growth “virtually stopped when sanctions and lower oil prices hit in 2014. This session takes a deep dive into the effect of the current sanctions and looks at how effective have they really been?
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EventFinCrime Focus: Anti-Money Laundering is a one-day livestream event
Regulators and legislators have been requiring banks to detect and prevent money-laundering for many years. But in recent decades, financial institutions have faced unprecedented regulatory pressure to implement robust and effective anti-money laundering (AML) procedures.
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WebinarAfter the attack: There’s No Place for Guesswork in Cyber Attack Investigations (On-Demand)
You can’t ignore the headlines. We have seen that any organisation, at any time, can suffer a cybersecurity attack, resulting in a devastating data breach. It’s a question of “when” rather than “If”.
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NewsManual processes in financial sector push up fraud risk
Inefficiencies in financial departments across the UK and US are slowing down business, new research finds, with four-in-five finance leaders admitting that their accounts payable (AP) function is not fit to enable continued growth.
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NewsFinancial crimes see former Nicaragua presidential candidate held for eight years
Nicaraguan politician Cristiana Chamorro was sentenced to eight years detention earlier this week for her involvement in financial crimes.
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NewsUS companies report a surge in suspicious loan applications
Levels of attempted vehicle loan fraud skyrocketed through 2021, a trend that experts fear may continue throughout this year.
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NewsUS Departments of Treasury and Justice launch oligarch whistleblower programme
The US Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has created a new whistleblower programme that will pay more than $5 million to any whistleblower with original information that helps them seize assets of Russian elites seeking to evade US sanctions.
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NewsNew US bill aims to reduce Russian use of cryptocurrency
Democratic senators in the United States have brought in a new bill to allow the US president to restrict overseas cryptocurrency companies in their dealings with sanctioned Russian organisations.
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EventFinCrime Focus: Sanctions is a one-day livestream event
The use of unilateral and multilateral sanctions continues to rise in international relations and fast-changing, far-reaching laws, regulations, and multinational initiatives are transforming the sanctions field on a regular basis meaning organisations need to be at the top of their game.
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NewsCybersecurity certification to strengthen renewable energy sector
A new report has recommended that more cybersecurity testing be carried out as part of improved cyber certification for distributed energy resources (DER) and inverter based resources (IBR).
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NewsRussian money diverted to “grey listed” UAE as sanctions mount
Huge swathes of Russian money are being diverted from Europe to Dubai as Western sanctions increase pressure on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
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NewsFATF puts UAE on “grey” money laundering list
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has placed the United Arab Emirates on a list of zones that require more monitoring over money laundering activity.
