Criminal liability for breach of AML Laws: Lessons from a toughened regulatory landscape
Last week, Switzerland’s top criminal court delivered a landmark verdict in the country’s first criminal trial against a major lender.
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Financial and social inclusion at risk due to blanket de-risking
On the 5th of January 2022 the European Banking Authority (EBA) published their opinion on de-risking (EBA/Op/2022/01). The EBA is taking a critical stance towards the de-risking strategies used by many institutions today. The authority sees the broad application of de-risking as an indication that… Read More »Financial and social inclusion at risk due to blanket de-risking
Weekly Round-Up, 21-25 March – 22
We have gone through massive troves of information over the week. Due to the war in Ukraine, a lot of information regarding financial crimes is sometimes lost in the noise.
The Contextual Dilemma in Financial Crime
How important is environmental crime in developing effective AML risk indicators and controls
We don’t really care about the environment in the financial crime industry! No, that comment is too harsh. Ethically and morally as individuals we care, of course. But is the environment sufficiently prioritized from a professional perspective?
Pliance x Acuminor – Seminar Summary
Before Christmas we hosted a seminar together with one of our partners, Pliance, at Norrsken House in Stockholm. The topic was “Financial crime regulations – cost or opportunity for FinTech’s in the Nordics?”
Weekly Round-Up, December 3 – 21
In the “Weekly Round-Up” we summarise and give extra reading suggestions for some of the past weeks financial crime news headlines, powered by Acuminor’s crime universe ThreatView®. Finally, there is some snow on the ground here in Sweden. It makes this otherwise dark season a… Read More »Weekly Round-Up, December 3 – 21
Weekly Round-Up, 12 October – 21
If October was Cyber Security Month, then November has a lot of focus on Fraud. Between November the 12th-20th the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) is the driver for International Fraud Awareness Week 2021.
TangoPay x Acuminor
Acuminor is excited to announce a new relationship with TangoPay , a digital payments provider based in the United Kingdom. TangoPay aims to provide essential niche money remittance services around the world, with a specific focus on providing digital financial solutions for the unbanked migrant… Read More »TangoPay x Acuminor
Weekly Round-Up, 1 October – 21
Good morning October! We are amid autumn and in one of our more intense periods with full-on development of our external and internal products, interacting with new partners and customers and ploughing through the avalanches of information.
Weekly Round-Up, 24 September – 21
It’s nearly October which means that we are smack in the middle of the autumn here in Sweden, and this also means the start of Cyber Security Month.