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...
FinTech Week
In recent years, the term “FinTech” has been swirling around media reports and economic discourse...
New Rules, Old Goods
This week, the OCCRP reported that an “owner of a swanky Manhattan art gallery, who sold ancient...
Trade-Based Money Laundering & HS Codes
Previously, we have discussed the large, though often overlooked, role that trade-based money...
Extended Sanctions Risk
Not everybody has a glass-half-full kind of mentality, but when it comes to ownership by sanctioned...
Global News Coverage
What if you need the latest about business developments in Mongolia or better continuous monitoring...
Trade-Based Money Laundering
One might imagine the surprise a Customs Official has when viewing an invoice for toilet paper...
What Is an AML Analyst?
An alert in a bank’s transaction monitoring system notifies that there is a large amount of money...
A Digital Cold War: Dual Use & The New Frontier
Last month, the announcement of Germany’s arrest of a businessman suspected of purchasing...
Level 1 vs Level 2 Investigations
“Two heads are better than one”, as the old saying goes. However, in anti-money laundering and risk...
From "Trade War" to "Tech War" and Back Again
Last week, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced it added 7 Chinese companies in the...
The Role of International NGOs in the Fight Against Financial Crime
At first glance, one may not think that NGOs are big players in the anti-money laundering (AML)...
EU Export Control Modernization
Throughout the last few years, export controls have taken heretofore unseen prominence in news...
Shell Companies
For years shell companies have been at the heart of both legitimate business activity and money...
What is OSINT and how is it used for investigations?
As the Internet has come to play an increasingly central role in people’s lives across the globe,...
Challenges of OSINT
Open-source Intelligence (OSINT) is an incredibly powerful tool for both the public and private...
Impact of AML Act of 2020
Sigma Ratings has reviewed the history of anti-money laundering legislation in the United States...
