All FinCrime World Forum articles – Page 2
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VideoThe Network-Centric Approach to Identifying Risk
Recent events such as the Pandora Papers have highlighted the importance of being able to identify increasingly complex criminal networks. Blackdot will explore what a network-centric approach means, where it can be useful, and how it looks in action.
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VideoHow is the approach to fincrime strategy changing as organisations embrace technology?
Robert Bateman, analyst and research director at GRC World Forums discusses with Laura Hutton Co-founder and Chief Customer Officer at Quantex, how the approach to fincrime strategy is changing as organisations embrace technology.
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VideoDevelopments in Credit Solutions esp. BNPL in Apac
Virat Patel, Managing Director of Pioneer Consulting Asia-Pacific, discusses with the panel the core developments in credit solutions esp. buy now pay later (BNPL) in the APAC region.
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VideoInstitutional Fraud Prevention, it takes a network.
Frank Versmessen, Head of Customer Security and CSP programme Director at SWIFT discusses institutional fraud prevention and the focused area of cyber security.
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VideoSanctions: rewriting the script
Guy Sheppard, Head of APAC Financial Crime Compliance Initiatives at SWIFT moderates this session on the changing landscape of sanctions.
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VideoExciting and transformational times in payments and FCC….. how SWIFT is supporting the community
Matt Hobbs, Global Head of FCC Strategy at SWIFT discusses the exciting and transformational times in payments and FCC and how SWIFT are supporting the community.
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EventDon’t miss! FinCrime Global - 27-28 October
In three weeks, GRC World Forums kicks off FinCrime Global with another two-day live and on-demand livestream experience.
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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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VideoOff the Crypto Rollercoaster: Are stable coins and centralised digital currencies ‘safe’ alternatives?
In the face of soaring market values for a variety of cryptocurrencies, public authorities and established financial institutions across the world have been forced to start considering the implications of these assets’ wider usage. Cryptocurrencies are no longer seen to be a ‘fringe’ interest, or of little relevance to the wider economy.
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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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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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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.