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  • Whitepaper

    October 22, 2021
    There was a time when financial misconduct meant a rogue trader racking up losses on a stock market bet he wasn’t authorised to make or a Ponzi scheme where crooked asset managers spent investors’ money on a posh lifestyle. But the definition of misconduct by financial actors has changed, and greatly expanded, in the past decade-and-a-half due to big scandals, even bigger financial catastrophes,…
  • Newsletter

    August 30, 2022
    Your monthly compliance news roundup FinCEN: BSA Reporting Obligations Remain Crucial During COVID-19 as Fraud Trends Rise The first case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States was confirmed on January 20, 2020, two months after the first known cases are believed to have originated in China. While the world turned its attention to the virus and finding effective treatment, a…
  • Whitepaper

    April 13, 2020
    . . .Second in a Series on Risk Quantification Nearly every financial institution expresses a commitment to fair and transparent treatment of customers, investors and partners, but many still struggle to articulate and communicate to employees what they deem to be appropriate conduct. Often, employees are left to presume whether their actions align with their organisation’s culture. This chasm…
  • Flash Report

    May 4, 2020
    The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act that was signed into law on March 27, 2020, offers a lifeline to small businesses and sole proprietors (generally those with 500 or fewer employees) in the form of the Paycheck Protection Programme (PPP) administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). This programme initially authorized $349 billion in forgivable loans,…
  • Whitepaper

    August 1, 2022
    U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco has called sanctions “the new FCPA.” [1] The EU has issued a proposal that would make sanctions evasion an EU crime [2] . The U.K.’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) is under pressure from key global partners to step up its enforcement activity [3]. These developments are just a few of the signs that the national security considerations…
  • Whitepaper

    August 11, 2023
    The International Organisation for Standardisation’s (ISO) new global messaging standard, ISO 20022, is set to be adopted by payment processing organisations globally by 2025.
  • Newsletter

    July 29, 2020
    In your monthly compliance news roundup, you will read about: Implications of Class Action Suit Alleging Misleading Autopay Options Recapping Regulatory Responses to COVID-19 DOJ Updates Guidance on Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programmes Regulators Aim to Provide Financial Institutions Clear Guidance and Improve Compliance
  • Whitepaper

    March 28, 2022
    As governments across the globe, including the EU, US, Canada, UK, Japan, Singapore and more, have imposed sanctions on Russia, with promises of additional action if Russia persists with its war on Ukraine, financial institutions and their customers are forced to review their trade and commodities transactions involving Russia to assess their legal and reputation risk. These reviews are…
  • Newsletter

    May 28, 2020
    Your monthly compliance news roundup BSA/AML Examination Manual Updates from FFIEC On April 15, 2020, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) released updates to the Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) examination manual. The manual is used to evaluate an institution’s compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering requirements. This is the…
  • Flash Report

    March 26, 2020
    As public filers are preparing to file their first quarter financial statements for the period ending March 31, the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic and the related economic fallout have thrown mounting uncertainty as to what losses to report – and how to estimate them. Before the pandemic hit the market and caused stocks to lose 35% of their value, banks were well on their way preparing to estimate…
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