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Meet the financial crime expert series: Luke Raven
Who are you and what do you do? I’m Luke Raven! Across a little over 13 years now I’ve worked at Big 4 banks and world class FinTechs, helping each tackle Financial Crime. Whether it’s Sanctions, Anti-Money Laundering, Fraud Prevention, Anti-Scams, Bribery & Corruption, Terrorist Financing – I enjoy all of it! I love helping…
Read MoreNeo Advisory and Arctic Intelligence to help digital currency and crypto asset service providers navigate AML/CTF
Neo Advisory links up with Arctic Intelligence to help Digital Currency Exchange Providers and Crypto Asset Secondary Service Providers navigate AML/CTF risk assessments As crypto assets continue to intrigue and make waves across the globe, organisations like Neo Advisory exist to help these businesses navigate the accounting, administrative and business requirements within related jurisdictions. They…
Read MoreACAMS Australasia 2022 recap
OPINION: The Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) held its 2nd annual AML & Anti-Financial Crime Conference for Australasia in Sydney 21st and 22nd June 2022. Anthony Quinn, Founder of Arctic Intelligence attended the event and connected with many peers, regulators, industry leaders and risk and compliance professionals for the first time since the pandemic.…
Read MoreEast 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 MoreRisk assessment platform (RAP) enhancement
Arctic Intelligence’s Risk Assessment Platform is a proprietary solution designed to be customisable and configurable. The enterprise-wide risk assessment solution enables businesses to identify risks and demonstrate compliance more efficiently and effectively. It hosts financial crime IP across 8 different risk domains (AML, Bribery & Corruption, Fraud, Sanctions, Correspondent Banking, Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking &…
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: Senators Kim Carr (Labor), Raff Ciccone (Labor), Karen Grogan (Labor), Nick McKim (Greens), Deborah O’Neill (Labor) and Paul Scarr (Liberal) presided over the Inquiry. Since as early as May 1991, the Financial Action Task…
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 MoreAML insights that help set the global benchmark in compliance
Arctic Intelligence have produced their 2022 insights survey to gather data from financial crime risk and compliance professionals across the globe. The focus is to understand how organisations conduct their money laundering and terrorist financing governance. This survey delves into the intricacies of what Arctic Intelligence believes to be the cornerstone of every anti-money laundering…
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…
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