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The Wolfsberg Group (the Group) has released a statement reaffirming its commitment to the risk-based approach (RBA) for financial crime risk management. Further to its 2006 RBA guidance, and in line with the Financial Action...more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: United Kingdom: HM Treasury responds to Payments Landscape Review call for evidence Hong Kong: HKMA publishes white paper exploring the idea of a CBDC Italy: Bank of...more
El aumento de los costos de cumplimiento, las estructuras de clientes corporativos difíciles de entender, las multas y sanciones, el cambio de la responsabilidad corporativa a la responsabilidad individual y las...more
Rising compliance costs, hard to understand corporate client structures, fines and penalties, a shift from corporate responsibility to individual liability, and reputational concerns have led many US Financial Institutions...more
Human trafficking is a global crisis that has an impact on lives around the globe. Over time, there have been many initiatives taken by governments and nonprofits to identify and help victims while promoting enhanced...more
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recently published a report titled Virtual Assets: Red Flag Indicators of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing. The report discusses a number of red flag indicators of suspicious...more
On Sunday June 21, 2020, the Mexican Banking and Securities Commission ("CNBV") ?in charge of the anti-money laundering and counter-financing of terrorism ("AML/CFT") supervision of the banking sector in Mexico? communicated...more
First Post in a Two-Post Series on Recent FATF Activity - Members presumably working from home, the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”) was active last week, first issuing its 3rd Enhanced Follow-up Report & Technical...more
The FATF is an independent inter-governmental entity that develops policies for protection of our global financial system from money laundering (AML), terrorist financing and financing of weapons of mass destruction. ...more
Deficiencies in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) frameworks and policies have triggered a significant number of Financial Institutions (FIs) to de-risk. ...more