All articles by GRC World Forums – Page 59
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NewsBusiness Update: SafeGuard Cyber Raises $45M In Strategic Growth Financing
Digital risk protection platform secures communications across all third-party social media, collaboration, and mobile chat channels (Press Release)
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NewsOnline privacy may ‘effectively disappear’ in face of greater tracking, warns US intelligence
Privacy and anonymity may effectively disappear by “choice or government mandate”, according to a US National Intelligence Council report on likely global trends for the next 20 years.
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VideoDue Diligence in the Age of Digital ID. A Revolution in Anti-Financial Crime?
Knowing and trusting who customers are is the primary responsibility of due diligence.
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VideoTechnological Promises, Criminal Realities. A conversation between Julian Dixon and Oliver Bullough
In the past decade, the ‘Regulatory Technology’ sector, or ‘RegTech’, has developed quickly in response to the need to manage existing financial crime risks better, enabled by the growing capacity and capability of evolving technologies themselves.
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VideoThe transparency illusion- UK companies and the Beirut Explosion
The explosion in Beirut was allegedly the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. But it has since emerged that the cause of the explosion was Ammonium Nitrate owned by a dormant UK company.
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VideoCase Study: The Role of Digital Behavior in Identifying Mule Accounts
Money mules have become a modern day gold rush for cybercriminals.
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VideoThe Cyber-Fincrime Nexus The Impact of COVID-19 and the Next Steps
Even before 2020, law enforcement agencies had been warning of a growing nexus between cyber and financial crime, and an expanding role from international serious organised crime groups.
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VideoTransforming Compliance into Risk Management. A presentation by Michael Rasmussen
Regulators consistently talk about the need for a ‘risk-based approach’ to financial crime, and many organisations have created ‘risk management’ functions to complement, and in some cases replace, legacy compliance functions. This shift is based on a recognition that it is not just what you do, it is how you do it that matters. Financial criminals are agile and reflexive, and those that seek to stop them need to be so in response.
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VideoEffective 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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VideoKeynote: ‘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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VideoAlternative frontiers in RegTech: Going Beyond AI
There is a persistent buzz in the sector about the financial crime potential of ‘new technologies’, but often, the discussion ends with AI and machine learning.
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VideoThe 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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VideoBrave New Worlds - is Artificial Intelligence the ultimate weapon against Financial Crime?
The financial crime compliance world has had high hopes for ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) – the specific role that supervised machine learning might play in improving the performance of legacy controls in screening and monitoring.
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VideoKEYNOTE: Hacking the Criminals. A conversation with Chris Hadnagy.
Evolving technology is often described as a key vulnerability in the fight against financial criminality, an argument made eloquently by the boom in cyber fraud during the pandemic. But the problem is not just technology - but the way we, as human beings, use it.
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VideoSpotlight: 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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VideoMaking Compliance Work (NorthRow session)
The demands on compliance functions are increasing, but resources are limited. As the pace of business accelerates and both customer expectations and regulation are rising, the management of compliance and customer due diligence demands fresh thinking. Simply repeating how things have been carried out in the past will ultimately lead to failure.
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VideoThe 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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WebinarHow you can prevent data loss and maintain compliance in your email system
80% of data exists in unstructured format - in the emails, attachments and documents we work with daily. This opens the door to significant risks, particularly as employees use email to send and receive sensitive information.
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NewsFour in five UK banks say Covid-19 hampered their financial crime effectiveness, survey finds
The switch to remote working during the coronavirus pandemic has impacted on UK banks’ financial crime prevention measures at a time cases of fraud and money laundering were rising, survey respondents have said.
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NewsBusiness Update: Digital Shadows announces new threat intelligence capabilities
By integrating with MITRE ATT&CK®, Digital Shadows customers will benefit from the collective insight of thousands of security professionals worldwide (Press Release)
