All FinCrime World Forum articles – Page 5
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Effective Financial Crime Risk Management. How do we evidence what we are doing in AFC is actually effective?
We have started to see a shift in the AFC community, as the pressure from regulators for firms to achieve good outcomes in financial crime prevention increases. There is likely to be greater focus on how outcomes are measured and how confident firms are that their controls are effective at tackling financial crime.
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Keynote: ‘Everyone Is Doing Badly’: AML After 30 Years - A Conversation with David Lewis, Executive Secretary of FATF
In 1989, the Group of Seven leading industrialised nations formed the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to create international standards in Anti-Money Laundering (AML).
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The Fraud Pandemic Predicting the next wave. A presentation by Onfido.
In the last twelve months, the world has faced two pandemics. In the wake of Covid-19 has come a significant increase in digital fraud. Although much of that fraud has continued via what we now see as ‘traditional’ routes - such as phone, text and email - it has spread into the wider digital spaces of the internet, encouraged by social restrictions that force so many of us to live our lives largely online. But, is this change here to stay? Or will the landscape return to normal as vaccines roll out worldwide.
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Spotlight: Modern Slavery. A Conversation with Andrew Wallis OBE, CEO of Unseen
Many of us living in developed economies have liked to believe that slavery is a thing of the past. But we are coming to understand that it remains a very modern reality; one that blights the lives of 40 million men, women and children across the globe and creates criminal profits only rivalled by counterfeit goods and illegal narcotics. Shockingly, human misery is once again one of the biggest of global businesses.
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The Risks in Asia’s Fintech Paradise. Can the region grow and fight financial crime?
The Asia-Pacific region is undoubtedly home to some of the fastest growing and most innovative Fintech markets, with rapidly advancing customer adoption rates in developing and developed economies alike.
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The Biden Presidency - Key financial crime challenges in a new political landscape
Following the federal elections of 2020, both the US executive branch and both chambers of Congress are under the effective control of the Democrats.
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Striking the balance between FinCrime, Privacy Law, and Encryption - What needs to change?
Efforts to tackle financial crime and requirements to protect privacy can seem conflicted and, in some cases, drive opposite regulatory expectations for the private sector. Increasingly, entities regulated for anti-money laundering (AML) are drawing large amounts of information from third parties to understand customer FinCrime risks.
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The drive for Corporate transparency
For decades scandal after scandal has demonstrated that anonymous shell companies have been used to divert public funds, channel bribes and ill-gotten gains as part of cross border corruption and money laundering schemes.
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“Off-Grid Workflow” for AML and CLM
It is extremely rare to find an organisation at can claim that its CLM and AML processes have become more efficient and cost-effective over the last ten years.
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DeFi Technologies will change banking forever - Decentralised Finance and New Frontiers for Blockchain
In the minds of many, blockchain technology – the use of encrypted blocks of data to create a shared ledger of activity – is synonymous with cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.
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Cryptocurrencies: Dispelling the Myths
The world of cryptocurrencies can be a disorienting place. Now, we are seeing one of the periodic booms in the value of Bitcoin and its sister currencies, with businesses and some governments exploring the possibility of launching their own versions, while others warn of the financial crime risks that crypto brings.
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Block… Change? Blockchain and the transformation of compliance
The financial services industry has spent the last decade warily eying Blockchain technology as a challenger to conventional ways of ‘doing money’ and as a potential risk to pre-existing regulatory norms.
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A world in Crisis. How has COVID-19 transformed financial crime – and our response?
The COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed what we think of as ‘normal life’.
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Financial Crime: Tackling A Growing Threat. A conversation with Sir Rob Wainwright
Financial Crime is a trillion-dollar global industry that allows criminals and corrupt elites to protect their illegal gains.
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Analysis
Seven key themes from FinCrime World Forum Day Two
Here are some of the highlights and key topics of debate from the second and final day of FinCrime World Forum.
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Seven key themes from FinCrime World Forum Day One
Financial crime professionals from all over the world gathered virtually today for the FinCrime World Forum. Here are the talking points and takeaways from Day One.
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Human hacking: how an understanding of social engineering can combat crime
We hear a lot about technology in anti-financial crime, but human beings can often be the weak link. Chris Hadnagy, ahead of his FinCrime World Forum appearance, talks about the psychological techniques criminals use to deceive humans and what we can do to counter them.
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How powerful a weapon is AI in the fight against financial crime?
FinCrime World Forum speaker Janet Bastiman explains the benefits of using AI in Anti Money Laundering compliance processes
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Transforming compliance into effective risk management
The “father of GRC” Michael Rasmussen will address FinCrime World Forum next week on the topic of transforming compliance into effective risk management. Here, he tells us about the importance of collaboration, right-brain thinking, enforcing rules, ethics and more.
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Blockchain’s ‘insane visibility’ for AML
Blockchain technology is still often seen as enabling secretive behaviour, but FinCrime World Forum speaker Amanda Wick argues that it has huge potential for Anti Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing compliance