Marital captivity occurs when a person is trapped in a religious marriage against her/his will because the marriage cannot be dissolved.…
Read moreMarital captivity occurs when a person is trapped in a religious marriage against her/his will because the marriage cannot be dissolved.…
Read moreFinancial services organizations (e.g. banks, investment banks, insurance companies, credit card companies and stock brokerages) should look beyond end-point solutions and investment in individual functional areas and instead build an effective and comprehensive Financial Crime Risk Management (FCRM) program that espouses the following characteristics: Holistic: Gaining transparency and a greater view of risk by connecting data and systems across disparate groups, channels, and silos is essential to identifying potential risks and ongoing threats to the institution. Shrinking such gaps directly translates into reduced risk to your organization and customers and in time will deter criminals looking for easy targets. End-To-End:…
Read moreThe last phase of financial crime risk is often the most overlooked, but it underpins the entire financial crime risk lifecycle. While prevention and detection each deal with types of risks, investigation encompasses how those risks are handled and resolved once they have been identified. Intuitively, the necessity of this step in the overall lifecycle makes sense; however, the often unnoticed aspect is how essential the manner in which issues are discovered and decisioned affects the institution in terms of both risk and cost. Highlighting how different effective resolution and investigation of risks can be from traditional, often human-driven analysis…
Read moreThe next phase in the financial crime risk lifecycle involves identifying and responding to threats that are active or ongoing. Effectively handling these types of risks requires both accuracy and speed, as a few seconds mean the difference between stopping a criminal act or suffering the effects of a financial or data loss, compliance violation, or major customer disruption. Financial services organizations (e.g. banks, investment banks, insurance companies, credit card companies and stock brokerages) have acquired and built a myriad of systems and sensors to monitor for specific events and types of behavior; however, the many technologies lack the wider…
Read moreThe initial phase in the lifecycle of financial crime risk deals with threats that have not yet affected the institution; this can be thought of as the programs and activities to halt any suspicious or non-compliant activities before they become an issue. For financial services organizations (e.g. banks, investment banks, insurance companies, credit card companies and stock brokerages), many of these activities require a great deal of resources and insight into customers that may not be available or easy to aggregate. These examples highlight the complexity of prevention and associated risks: (a) Stopping suspicious persons from opening accounts or moving…
Read moreFinancial services organizations (e.g. banks, investment banks, insurance companies, credit card companies and stock brokerages) have the difficult task of effectively identifying the greatest risks to themselves and to their customers, protecting both parties against unnecessary risks and satisfying regulatory requirements for greater transparency, awareness, and consolidation of information across the organization. For many such organizations, this challenge is compounded by a stagnant or even shrinking budget allocation, making these tasks even more daunting. Financial services organizations (e.g. banks, investment banks, insurance companies, credit card companies and stock brokerages) are increasingly realizing that they must move beyond the traditional reactive…
Read moreFinancial-economic crime, including fraud, corruption and bribary, is a significant social problem that can have a severe and adverse financial impact on citizens, organisations and the government. Financial-economic crime occurs in both small and large organisations. In addition to causing financial damage, Financial-economic crime can prevent you from achieving your business goals and jeopardise the continuity of your organisation as a going concern. In addition, Financial-economic crime damages the integrity of your organisation and may potentially have a detrimental effect on your organisation’s image. The board and the supervisory body are primarily responsible for the prevention and timely detection of…
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Read moreOrganisations with a workforce of 50 employees or more must have a works council (WoCo). A WoCo is an employee participation and co-determination body within an organisation and its members are employees who consult with the employer on behalf of the staff about company policy and employee interests. The Works Councils Act (Wet op de ondernemingsraden) establishes the rights and duties of the Works Council.…
Read moreA whistleblower exposes malpractice in an organisation. Employers with a workforce of 50 or more must set up a procedure for reporting (suspected) malpractice in the employer’s organisation. The obligation to have an internal whistleblower policy referred to here is part of the Dutch Whistleblowers (Authority) Act (Wet Huis voor Klokkenluiders) and its purpose is to improve the conditions for reporting social malpractice within organisations, by facilitating the investigation of malpractice and providing for better protection of whistleblowers. Your whistleblower policy describes how you deal with reports of suspected malpractice within your organisation. In the near future, the Dutch Whistleblowers…
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