Financial Crime risks rarely become unmanageable because relevant information is entirely unavailable. More often, control is lost because available information is dispersed across business units, client files, transaction systems, legal entities, jurisdictions, operational processes and separate control functions. A relationship manager may identify inconsistencies in a client’s explanations, while an…
Read moreIntegrated Financial Crime Risk Management requires an organisation to assess Financial Crime risks not only by reference to incidents that have already occurred, transactions that have been selected by existing detection systems or deficiencies identified through formal control activities. A genuinely integrated approach is directed towards recognising, at an earlier…
Read moreIntegrated Financial Crime Risk Management begins with an unequivocal decision by the organisation’s leadership not to treat Financial Crime Risk Management as a collection of separate compliance obligations, technical controls or reactive investigative measures, but as an integral component of strategy, governance, commercial decision-making and institutional responsibility. Financial Crime risks…
Read moreThe chemical industry operates within one of the most highly regulated, internationally interconnected and operationally complex environments in the global economy. Your organisation may simultaneously act as a manufacturer, importer, exporter, distributor, storage operator, waste producer, permit holder, employer, taxpayer, contractual counterparty and participant in international supply chains through which…
Read moreBanks, financial institutions, payment institutions, electronic money institutions, lenders, investment firms, asset managers, insurers, crypto-asset service providers and FinTech companies operate at the centre of the fight against financial crime because they are responsible not only for managing their own Financial Crime Risks, but also for performing a structural gatekeeper…
Read moreAviation, aerospace and defence rank among the most highly regulated, geopolitically sensitive and technologically critical sectors of the global economy. Within a single mandate, programme, consortium, joint venture, government contract or international supply chain, your organisation may simultaneously face defence procurement requirements, national security considerations, export controls, sanctions regimes, anti-bribery…
Read moreThe automotive industry is evolving at pace from a traditional manufacturing and distribution model into an internationally interconnected ecosystem in which vehicle production, software development, semiconductors, battery technology, critical raw materials, artificial intelligence, vehicle data, financing, leasing, mobility services, digital sales channels and cross-border supply chains are becoming increasingly interdependent.…
Read moreThe art and cultural sector operates at the intersection of cultural heritage, international flows of wealth, high-value assets, private wealth, philanthropy, public funding, international trade, reputation, tax structuring, geopolitical developments and increasingly intensive regulation. Works of art, antiquities, archaeological objects, historical collections, design objects, manuscripts, cultural property and other valuable…
Read moreThe agricultural sector, agribusiness and food production operate at the intersection of food security, international trade, public funding, the Common Agricultural Policy, subsidies, land use, climate transition, emissions, biodiversity, labour mobility, food safety, product certification, logistics, commodity trading, tax structuring, trade finance and increasingly complex domestic and cross-border chains involving…
Read moreA narcissistic former partner represents, within family and youth law, an exceptionally complex and often destabilising theme, because the problem rarely lends itself to being captured in one visible incident or one straightforward legal allegation. The complexity lies in the combination of manipulation, gaslighting, control, conflict management, shifting outward presentation,…
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