2024 Financial Crime Predictions and Trends - The Convergence of New Technology and an Expanding Risk Surface
Risk managers faced significant challenges in 2023 and also experimented more deeply with the...
Network Approaches to Detecting Global Crime
Knowing your clients and knowing your risk go hand-in-hand.
Staying Ahead of Terror Finance Risk
A flurry of activity by the Biden Administration and other allied nations following the October 7,...
Identifying the Players and Growing Risks in Russian Oil Trading
Russia’s economy relies heavily - roughly half - on the sale of oil. This lifeline and the brass...
Tracking Terrorism Financing News & Networks
Unsurprisingly, “terrorism related events” are being reported and covered from every corner of the...
Staying in Front of 'The Evergrandes'
From Wirecard to the Adani Group, staying ahead of changing risk - both direct and indirect - has...
Leveraging Global Media to Detect and Contextualize Entity Risk
Fighting financial crime and enabling a more proactive risk management posture benefits from...
Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO)
The concept of “Ultimate Beneficial Owner” (or UBO) is critically important in corporate law and...
Sigma Ratings launches ongoing KYB & KYC monitoring
Delivering ongoing monitoring to clients is a massive evolution of Sigma Ratings' platform, and our...
Sigma releases new enhancements to its global monitoring capabilities
In our effort to further enable customers to control their own Sigma platform and data experiences,...
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...
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...
State of the Unit
This month, a new report titled the ‘True Cost of Financial Crime Compliance Global Report’...
Adopting a Perpetual KYC Approach
During a recent industry workshop, several leading institutions, including Goldman Sachs, HSBC and...
Too Big To Fail...Small Enough To Jail
The Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) released the ‘ACAMS...
Shell Companies
For years shell companies have been at the heart of both legitimate business activity and money...
The Three Silos of Defense
With the SEC whistleblower program setting new records in 2020 and with a renewed focus on...
A Pandemic of Corruption
Last week, following weeks of investigative reporting, The Washington Post compiled their various...
Error: This Person Does Not Exist
First Fake News, Now Fake People Alexa Altos operates a web design firm in California, has a number...
