Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Newsletter April 14, 2021 Hong Kong Top Compliance Risks Over the last 12 months, there has been an unprecedented period of uncertainty and disruption globally. In Hong Kong SAR (HKSAR), the period of uncertainty stretched to 24 months, as the social unrest that began in March 2019 led to heightened geopolitical tensions even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020. These two incidents contributed to changes in regulatory priorities and programs… Blogs July 30, 2019 Financial Action Task Force Set to Rate Hong Kong “Compliant” in Anti-Money Laundering Evaluation According to a press release by the Hong Kong government, Hong Kong is set to receive an overall rating of “Compliant” in what will be its Fourth Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Mutual Evaluation. The Mutual Evaluation Report (MER) is scheduled to be released in September 2019. The expected rating represents a significant improvement over the Partially Compliant rating assigned to Hong Kong on… Whitepaper April 29, 2022 Credit Pulse Spring 2022 Geopolitical Instability Moves the Goalposts AgainIn this issue of the Credit Pulse, we look at credit risk considering the macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainties that continue to shape the financial services industry in the opening months of 2022. We assess lessons learned during the pandemic and how they’re driving lenders to recalibrate operations to enable greater resiliency in the face… Whitepaper September 9, 2021 Clean Money is a Click Away: The Money Laundering Risks of E-Commerce The global e-commerce market is projected to approach $5 trillion in sales in 2021[1] — pretty impressive for an industry that only came into existence in 1991 when the internet was opened for commercial use. With brick-and-mortar stores shuttered because of COVID-19 and online buying the only option many consumers had, retail e-commerce sales in 2020 grew by double-digits in every region of the… Podcast April 28, 2022 Podcast: Future of Analytics - Empowering Intelligent Decision Making The current and future state of risk analytics is bedrock to empowering the compliance function’s forward-looking agenda. With the evolution of enterprise risks, advancements in analytics, and the ever-morphing regulatory landscape, compliance can be transformed by being further data driven, and monetise the deployment of advanced analytics in empowering intelligent decision-making and risk… Whitepaper May 1, 2022 The Russian sanctions: A catalyst for ESG? “To put it bluntly, will companies enact courageous ESG policies only when it does not hurt?…This is a moment of truth. Stakeholders have been increasingly mobilised to question the premises of companies’ professed ESG activities. All too frequently, corporations and their executives engage in marketing or obfuscation of what they’re actually doing — what could more accurately be called ‘ESG-… Whitepaper August 20, 2021 Prepare for Changes as Biden Administration Sets Sight on ESG - Top of Mind Compliance Issues for 2021 It’s been fewer than two decades since the term ESG, or Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance, was coined in a landmark report commissioned by the United Nations. ESG has become a hot topic for politicians and regulators, as events like natural disasters and protests on racial and social inequity have led to public calls to action for fundamental changes to the way society interacts with… Whitepaper October 22, 2021 Amid Expanding Definitions and Growing Attention from Regulators, How to Make Conduct Risk Strategy Work There was a time when financial misconduct meant a rogue trader racking up losses on a stock market bet he wasn’t authorised to make or a Ponzi scheme where crooked asset managers spent investors’ money on a posh lifestyle. But the definition of misconduct by financial actors has changed, and greatly expanded, in the past decade-and-a-half due to big scandals, even bigger financial catastrophes,… Whitepaper February 5, 2021 Emergency Management Solution for Healthcare Organisations As we continue to face an unpredictable pattern of emergencies stemming from natural, human and technological events, the COVID-19 pandemic — for however long it may be with us — will likely continue even as other emergencies (such as hurricanes, wildfires, floods and flu season) arise, which complicates healthcare organisations’ plans for every potential event. Healthcare leaders are seeking a… Flash Report July 20, 2021 Proposed U.S. Interagency Guidance on Third-Party Relationships: Leveling the Playing Field for Third-Party Risk Management Requirements On July 13, 2021, the Federal Reserve Board (FRB), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) released a joint request for comment to their Proposed Interagency Guidance on Third-Party Relationships: Risk Management. The agencies have issued this proposed guidance in response to industry feedback requesting alignment among the agencies… Load More
