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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a country with immense economic potential and growth. The banking, tourism, real estate, retail, and even technology sectors have experienced impressive growth in recent year...
Shell companies, also known as shell corporations or personal investment companies...
In the world of anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF), there are a lot of acronyms thrown around...
Two of the most important compliance regulations are AML and KYC. Both AML and KYC have their own set of guidelines that businesses and organizations must follow...
To combat this complex and persistent problem plaguing societies, economies, and organisations around the world, AML laws have been designed to make it harder for criminals to move and hide their illicit money...
KYC stands for "Know Your Customer". It is a customer identification process that organisations use to verify the identity of their customers...
Most people have probably heard of "smurfing" or "smurfs" in relation to the popular cartoon characters...
Everyone's heard of money laundering, but not everyone knows how it really works. Money laundering is the sneaky process of moving illegal money from...
When it comes to laundering money, many people think of huge schemes with complex financial transactions...
As a business owner, it is vital to ensure you are doing everything possible to comply...
In recent years, South Africa has experienced an economic boom. This is particularly true in the financial services industry...
A recent Australian government study reveals that do not have improved policies to manage personally identifiable information
Are you concerned about the risk of working with a Politically Exposed Person (PEP)? ...
The Singapore Presidency of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) from 2022 to 2024 intends to enhance...
The process of money laundering attempts to release criminally based funds into the legal financial system...
Are you concerned about the FATF Blacklist?...
Incombination with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations, non-compliance canresult in substantial fines...
The country of France is challenged with a large range of money laundering risks (ML) both domestically and internationally...
Being the first dual-party legislation that proposes to govern the regulation of digital assets, the Responsible Financial Innovation Act (RFIA) aims to...
Know Your Customer (KYC) is an important step when dealing with cryptocurrencies. Learn what KYC for crypto means and why it’s so important...
With advancements in technology and constant regulatory updates, it is hard to know if your business has taken all the precautionary measures to ensure you ‘Know Your Customer’...
AML/CTF compliance begins with mandatory client verification and screening for Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)/Sanctions...
Are you losing good customers to a cumbersome onboarding process? Do you want to stay ahead of potential data breaches and risks of farming out the customer verification process to third-party vendors?...
With Anti-Money laundering (AML) and Counter Terrorism Financing (CTF) legislation at the focus of security and fraud detection globally...
As businesses scale up and expand operations beyond borders, they also need to conduct transactions rapidly and seamlessly...
The past few years have seen a rise in regulatory pressures across the world, together with an increase in the number of high profile fines and probes...
Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) are financial companies that provide small loans to the unbanked sections of society or low-income groups.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was established in 1934 with a mission of protecting investors, maintaining fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitating capital formation...
In recent times, money laundering and terrorism financing have attracted a lot of attention forcing governments and regulators, across the globe, to focus their energies on stopping the illicit flow of funds...
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is Hong Kong’s central banking institution. It was established on 1 April 1993 by merging the Office of the Exchange Fund and the Office of the Commissioner of Banking. The HKMA’s four main functions are...
Artificial Intelligence within Financial Crime Financial crime is a major threat to financial institutions (FIs) today. Criminal networks are employing financial crime to underpin...
The Reserve Bank of India, which was established on April 1, 1935 in accordance with the provisions of the Reserve Bank of India Act...