All On Demand articles – Page 15
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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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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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VideoTrust: The Children’s Code – Insight and Design at the Heart of Compliance
The privacy regulators have a message for brands – unless you can prove otherwise, you must assume that children – people under the age of 18 years old – are using your digital products and services.
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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.
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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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VideoBusiness Through the Prism of Cyber
When integrating a new technology into your organization, engaging in or trying to mitigate third party risk, one must think of its cyber hygiene. It starts with understanding where your vulnerabilities are, and how you can efficiently manage it
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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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VideoAre you ignoring the elephant in the room - Your Organization’s Data?
Everyone is talking about compliance and fines when it comes to an organization’s data. Fines must not be the driving factor to take control of your data. It must start with Trust.
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VideoWomen and Diversity in Cybersecurity: Why Are We Still Having this Conversation?
Recent research by Tessian found that a higher proportion of young men were likely to consider a career in cyber security than young women.
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VideoSchrems II and International Data Transfers: The Journey to a new Privacy Shield and Who Is Leading the Way
Companies are still feeling the impact of the European Court of Justice decision last July that torpedoed the Privacy Shield, raising huge question marks about the future of international data transfers between the EU and US.
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VideoEnvironmental, Social, and Corporate Governance: Why a Privacy-Focused Company is a Sustainability-Focused Company
Holding less data means less storage, less power usage and this is better for the environment. In short, be lean with data, less power, more profit, better for the environment.
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VideoData Privacy and Integrated Technologies
The rapid development of new technology presents organisations, regulators and society with data privacy and security risks. In our interconnected world, personal data can be shared between devices, networks and borders rapidly.
