FATF Effectiveness Report
Last week, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) released its Report on the State of Effectiveness...
List of Jurisdictions with a Golden Visa Program
Golden Passports or Visas, a citizenship by investment or residency by investment program, has...
Top 10 Compliance Podcasts for April 2022
Need some inspiration for Fincrime, compliance and risk podcasts in April 2022? Here's what the...
Are You With Me?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has abruptly transformed the world. In response, an increasing number...
The Russian Exposure
In just over a week since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the global economy has experienced a...
Sigma Ratings Makes Key Russia Data Available to Help Users Uncover Hidden Risks
Over the past week, the world has watched the crisis unfolding in Ukraine in disbelief, anger and...
Why This is Different
When I interviewed with the U.S. Treasury in 2005, the Department was undergoing a major...
WSJ: U.S. Treasury’s Beneficial Ownership Rules Stirs Debate
This week, the WSJ reported that the U.S. Treasury is “facing a wide range of views on the details...
Unveiling Instant Detection of Line of Business & Transparency Risk
Time and resource commitments dedicated to manually determining line of business and verifying...
2022 Predictions
Every year, we highlight predictions for the year. We are doing so again this year, though it seems...
Advocacy Groups Urge Biden Administration to Expand AML Rules to Private Investment Industry
Last week, the WSJ reported that Senator Sheldon Whitehouse along with a collection of...
New Research Study Suggests Poor AML Oversight of Shell Companies by Financial Industry
This week, the ICIJ reported on a new study by a group of renowned academics that revealed that,...
Know Your Country | KYC goes beyond Know your Customer in AML Analysis
While KYC stands for “Know Your Customer” and is at the heart of AML efforts, for compliance teams...
Heightened Scrutiny On Prime Brokers Following KYC Failure at Archegos
This week, Credit Suisse announced it will exit the hedge fund business as the Swiss bank looks to...
Extended Sanctions Risk
Not everybody has a glass-half-full kind of mentality, but when it comes to ownership by sanctioned...
Afghanistan and the March of Time
I served as the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Attache to Afghanistan during the eighth,...
Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)
A Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) is a report made by a regulated institution in a variety of...
Putting You On Notice
Corruption and money laundering go hand-in-hand.
A Digital Cold War: Dual Use & The New Frontier
Last month, the announcement of Germany’s arrest of a businessman suspected of purchasing...
Shell Companies
For years shell companies have been at the heart of both legitimate business activity and money...
Rather Grim
It is that time of the year when Transparency International puts out its latest country ratings...
