All GRC World Forums articles in September 2020
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VideoGRC TV: Addressing the imbalance: Women in GRC
Access this episode on demand, as we delve into addressing the imbalance - women in GRC.
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NewsPhilippines ‘could face FATF sanctions’ for failing to implement legislation
The Philippines risks being put on the Financial Action Task Force’s “grey list” if it does not fully implement the necessary amendments to its anti-money laundering law, according to the country’s Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC).
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NewsSaudi Arabia to implement stricter AML rules for Forex offices
The authorities in Saudi Arabia have reportedly approved stricter rules to combat money laundering and terrorism financing.
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Q&ABuilding the FinCrime team of the future
Gayatri Viswanath of Standard Chartered Bank talks about the skills that compliance teams need in the future, ahead of her appearance at the FinCrime World Forum
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Q&AFinCrime Job Focus: tell us about your role
Do you work in a field tackling financial crime? Don’t miss the chance to feature in one of FinCrime Report’s regular job focus Q&As.
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NewsUS attorney general raises concern about criminal and terrorist exploitation of cryptocurrency
The US attorney general has raised concern about criminal uses of cryptocurrency in a taskforce document outlining the problem.
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WebinarNavigating Global Privacy Laws Along the IT Asset Lifecycle
As if cyberthreats weren’t enough, consumer privacy laws have put increased pressure on IT leaders to keep personal or sensitive data from being breached. This includes mandates to immediately and thoroughly respond to data deletion requests, data retention expirations, and other cases of no-longer-needed data across your entire data ...
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WebinarThe Balancing Act: Productivity, Collaboration and Data Protection
Join Microsoft for a deep dive on how you can use intelligent and built-in solutions to identify, label and protect sensitive data without impeding collaboration, even in an environment of remote work. We will follow the journey of an organization as individual workers collaborate on a patent pending project ...
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FeatureEnsuring security in the journey towards digital healthcare
There are more digital touchpoints in the healthcare systems we experience today than ever before.
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NewsAirbnb admits to ‘technical issue’ that resulted in exposure of users’ private messages
The internal leak exposed Airbnb hosts’ personally identifiable information (PII) to other users.
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NewsSARs system is ineffective at uncovering money laundering, warns United Nations panel
The system under which banks report suspicious activity has uncovered “very few” instances of money laundering, corruption or other financial crimes, a United Nations (UN) panel report has said.
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WebinarSafely Unleash the Value of Sensitive Data in the Cloud
Organizations are leveraging the Cloud to maximise the value of data, consolidating it in data lakes and committing to analytics and machine learning initiatives to convert it into actionable insights. As analysts and data scientists have started working with these tools it has become clear that to provide accurate ...
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Q&AFacing up to the cyber security challenge
James Eaton-Lee, head of information security and data protection officer at Oxfam, discusses the cyber threats and challenges facing third sector organisations tackling poverty, equality and democratic disempowerment.
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FeaturePreparing for the cybercrime challenge: tips from a former FBI agent
Few have witnessed the developments in cybercrime unfold over the past 20 years as closely as Jeff Lanza. The former FBI agent has followed the progression of white-collar crime since the 1980s and has seen first-hand how investigations went from being all about catching gangsters operating in the physical world, to catching online hackers in just a matter of years.
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NewsFresh complaints against Danske Bank push total damages sought to $1.12 billion
More investors and pensions funds are seeking damages against Danske Bank over money laundering claims, bringing the overall figure for damages sought from the institution to $1.12bn.
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NewsBritish MPs write to ministers to demand AML answers as FinCEN Files blame game begins
The chair of a UK parliamentary committee has written to government ministers and watchdog heads after the country’s anti-money laundering controls were put under the spotlight by the FinCEN Files.
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NewsZerologon vulnerability actively exploited, says Microsoft
Microsoft has observed attacks exploiting the serious security flaw dubbed “Zerologon”, the company’s security intelligence team reported in a tweet yesterday.
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Q&AFinCrime Job Focus: Tamás Kádár, chief executive, SEON
In our first reader-submitted Q&A, Tamás Kádár explains how cyber attacks led him to develop his own anti-fraud solution
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ebookAnnulment of Privacy Shield – What Comes Next?
In striking down Privacy Shield, EU judges instantly threw into doubt the operations of more than 5,000 US companies that relied on it.
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Q&ADIFC’s data protection landscape: aligning global measures
As the region approaches the end of the DIFC Data Protection Law transition period, PrivSec spoke with Mohammad Khalaf, Senior Regulatory Compliance Officer at Arab Bank in Jordan to discuss the significance of the new law.