More From Financial Crime – Page 9
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Analysis
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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Event
PrivSec 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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Analysis
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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News
Guernsey launches agency to fight financial crime
The Economic and Financial Crime Bureau (EFCB) has been set up by Guernsey’s government to investigate money laundering and economic crime, take enforcement action and recover proceeds from unlawful conduct.
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Analysis
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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News
Thousands of fake online pharmacies shut down
A record number of fake online pharmacies worldwide have been shut down in an operation targeting the sale of counterfeit and illicit medicines and medical products.
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Feature
Key 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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News
Malta updates anti-corruption strategy
The Maltese government has refreshed its national strategy to fight fraud and corruption, two years after a report by the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption body Greco highlighted how a promised update had never materialised.
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Analysis
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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News
South Korea’s first regulated crypto exchange could launch in Q3
South Korea has requested crypto exchanges to comply with new regulatory requests, and should the exchanges complete the process by June, the country’s first regulated exchange could launch towards the beginning of Q3 2021.
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News
Philippine AML watchdog gears up for prosecutions
The Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) in the Philippines is prepared to take supervisory action after a review revealed financial businesses submitted incorrect filings in suspicious transaction reports (STRs), says executive director Mel Georgie Racela.
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Analysis
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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Analysis
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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Feature
Two 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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News
China bans financial payment institutions from crypto business
China’s regulatory authorities have banned financial and payment institutions from providing services related to cryptocurrency transactions.
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Analysis
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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Video
The GRC Red Flag Series with Michael Rasmussen - GRC Orchestrate with ING
Access the on-demand video for The GRC Red Flag Series with Michael Rasmussen: GRC Ochestrate featuring ING
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News
New series of video talks led by ‘father of GRC’ Michael Rasmussen begins today
A new series of virtual discussions on governance, regulation and compliance trends will get under way later
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News
‘DeFi’ fraud rises whilst cryptocurrency crime declines
New report reveals an alarming new trend in which decentralised finance hacks now make up more than 60% of the total crypto thefts and hacks volume.
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News
Europe’s new AML watchdog will be in place by 2024
Once operational, the authority will mark one of the biggest overhaul of the European Union’s anti-money laundering efforts in decades.