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East African risk consultancy Hazton assigns award-wining Arctic Intelligence as their RegTech partner of choice
Hazton Risk Consultancy is a financial crime consultancy firm based in Uganda. Their services span across policy and risk framework reviews, evaluating lines of defence, conducting risk assessments, and board/exec management governance assessment and training. Hazton wanted to improve their offering to customers by digitising critical aspects of the risk management process. The arduous risk…
Read MoreLegal Briefings: Scope of Australia’s AML/CTF Regime To Be Widened
BACKGROUND The terms of reference for the Inquiry, which took place on 9 and 10 November 2021, included, among other things: the regulatory impact, costs and benefits of extending AML/CTF reporting obligations to Gatekeeper Professions, often referred to as the extent to which: DNFBPs take account of money laundering and terrorism financing risks, and the…
Read MoreTransforming risk assessment techniques
Historically risk assessments have been subjective, inefficient, slow, and infrequent. Moreover, they are the cornerstone to any robust risk and compliance framework. Most GRC platforms do not provide the “know-how” or the content or the data-driven approach, resulting in organizations defaulting back to spreadsheets – until now. Bridging this gap is Arctic Intelligence, a company…
Read MoreThe gathering storm – AML/CTF regulation for lawyers back on the table
OPINION PIECE: Amidst the hurly-burly of pre-federal election chicanery and Budget 2022 hysteria, it would have been easy to blink and miss one of the more important Senate committee reports for lawyers in the last few years. Federal Parliament’s final sitting week in March 2022 produced many shocks and revelations, but the Senate Legal and…
Read MoreMoney laundering reform recommendations for ‘gatekeeper professions’
On 30 March 2022, the Federal Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee (Committee) released its report regarding the adequacy and efficacy of Australia’s anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing (AML/CTF) regime. The Committee’s report focused on the implementation of an AML/CTF regime applicable to designated non-financial businesses and professions (DNFBPs) (often described as ‘Tranche…
Read MoreIt’s all just a little bit of history repeating itself: How Business Risk Assessments Could Help to Reduce the De-Risking of the Crypto Currency Sector
Introduction In 2021, a Select Committee was set up in Australia to receive evidence on the country’s role as a technology and financial centre. Several different topics were canvassed, for which a variety of stakeholders made written submissions. One of these topics was the evolution of the cryptocurrency sector and the service providers who support…
Read MoreWeighing up the risk
Organisations are switching to automated assessments of financial crime risks as regulators flag more rigorous scrutiny, says Darren Cade GAICD, CEO of Arctic Intelligence. Risk assessments have in the past been conducted via spreadsheets and based on subjective assessments of what staff perceive to be the likelihood and impact of a potential risk. “Regulators like…
Read MoreEU Update – July 2021
Business Wide Risk Assessments are a hot subject We recently wrote about the Dear CEO letter sent by the FCA to Retail banks naming the Business Wide Risk Assessment (BWRA) as an area of concern and one that they need to see significant improvements in. Financial Services aren’t the only firms failing under scrutiny for…
Read MoreNews in Brief – July 2021
Americas The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is cracking down on crypto-asset tax evasion with virtual currencies and non-fungible tokens. Although designed to be invisible, this scrutiny also aims to identify users who use crypto to launder funds Commission-free stock mobile trading platform Robinhood fined $70m by Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) for “systemic supervisory failures…
Read MoreNews in Brief – June 2021
AMERICAS Stephen Calk, founder and former CEO of The Federal Savings Bank, is being prosecuted in New York for bribery. He is accused of approving multi-million dollar loans to fund Trump’s 2016 campaign in exchange for a White House appointment. Find out about more about our anti-bribery and corruption solution here. Former CANNTRUST executives charged…
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