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Newsletter – 01 July 2019
What we’re hearing… Anyone who knows me well will know that I’m a passionate advocate for the benefits of using RegTech to help regulated businesses manage financial crime risk and compliance exposures and protect them from being exploited by organised criminal networks. I’m often asked by prospective clients to help them justify why they should adopt…
Read MoreConsultant case study: Aub Chapman consulting services
We invited AML/CTF consultant, Aub Chapman from Aub Chapman Consulting Services, to share his thoughts on why he uses AML Accelerate on client engagements. When I’m doing independent audits, I find that clients have deficiencies or misunderstandings in two fundamental areas. The first is, do they really understand the risks that their industry or their…
Read MoreIs Excel really fit for purpose to run risk and compliance assessments?
Author: Anthony Quinn, CEO and Founder, Arctic Intelligence I am often asked by prospective banking and consulting clients to help them justify why they should adopt RegTech and not continue using spreadsheets for managing risk and compliance engagements. So it got me thinking and here are my top 15 reasons why RegTech beats Excel hands…
Read MoreConsultant case study: Initialism – AML Compliance solutions
Neil Jeans, Principal at Initialism and co-founder of AML Accelerate, shares how he uses AML Accelerate to grow his AML/CTF consultancy. When we designed AML Accelerate, we designed it with the consulting market in mind. Delivering clients the product and service that they need – the AML program, the risk assessment, due diligence standard –…
Read MoreConsultant case study: Clement advisory group
We invited AML/CTF consultant, Garry Clement from Clement Advisory Group, to share his thoughts on why he uses AML Accelerate on client engagements. Having working in the financial crime and anti-money laundering (AML) arena for over four decades, firstly in law enforcement and most recently as a consultant, it has become abundantly clear that establishing…
Read MoreFMA NZ cracks down on non-compliant AML/CFT programmes
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has issued formal warnings to 10 reporting entities under Section 80 of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act (AML/CFT Act). The FMA carried out a risk-based assessment of independent audit reports for reporting entities it supervises in February this year, targeting 69 reporting entities. The FMA supervises…
Read MoreFMA warns NZ companies they need to do more to comply with AML/CFT regulations
The Financial Markets Authority of New Zealand issued a stark warning for regulated entities in its recently published Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) 2018 Monitoring Report. Given the Act has been in place for more than five years, the FMA stated that they had expected to see more mature processes and policies…
Read MoreCase study – Suncorp
Suncorp Group is in the top 20 ASX-listed companies employing over 13,000 people, with nearly 9 million customers, resulting in AUD$99 billion in assets under management. Suncorp offers a broad range of products and services including banking, wealth management and insurance. Arctic Intelligence worked with Suncorp on their Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF)…
Read MoreTier one people – Anthony Quinn of Arctic Intelligence
Anthony Quinn talks to Dexter Cousins about his journey so far. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter for a daily dose of financial crime news across the globe.
Read MoreBusinesses need to assess money laundering risk more frequently
In a recent industry presentation to credit unions and mutual banks in Australia, by Arctic Intelligence, a provider of financial crime prevention audit, risk and compliance software, an audience poll found that many businesses vulnerable to money laundering and other financial crime may not be conducting a comprehensive risk assessment often enough. While half of…
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