2020 saw landmark enforcement actions from regulators across Asia-Pacific as financial institutions across the region paid $5.1 billion in fines for anti-money laundering failures.
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Compliance Clarified – a podcast by Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence
Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence is excited to announce the launch of its new podcast, Compliance Clarified. Featuring our in-house experts and thought leaders from across the financial services industry, we…
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SURVEY: Participate in the 12th Annual Cost of Compliance Survey!
Participate in the Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence 12th annual survey on the cost of compliance for regulated firms in the financial services industry.
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Thomson Reuters Wins Two Awards for Best Regulatory Change and Compliance Training Solutions
Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence (TRRI) has scooped two coveted industry gongs at the Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence during an online ceremony on Wednesday evening. The awards were selected by…
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ASIC slow off the mark as retirees lose millions in Managed Investment Scheme
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched an internal investigation into whether it needed to do more to stop the marketing of Sterling First (Aust) Ltd and associated companies (Sterling First) to vulnerable elderly investors.
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Public-private sectors must work together to restore trust, manage risks post-COVID
The public and private sectors must work together more closely to restore trust and stability across international institutions and to enable them to respond more quickly to major risk events, a leading compliance expert has said.
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Ethics and risk management in the time of COVID
Ahead of the Governance Institute’s Leadership Trust Foresight conference on 7-8 December 2020, Dr Klaus Moosmayer, Member Executive Committee & Chief Ethics, Risk and Compliance Officer, Novartis AG (Switzerland) speaks with Virginia Ginnane, Marketing Content Specialist, Thomson Reuters about steering an ethical business in this challenging time.
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Cash Converters in AUSTRAC’s gunsights, as regulator sizes up next enforcement targets
Pawnbrokers, payday lenders and other non-bank reporting entities have been urged to review their financial crime controls, as the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) broadens its supervision and enforcement crackdown.
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Dirty money’s dirty secret: We’ve all been deceived – there is no ‘war on drugs’
In this article former U.S. undercover agent, Robert Mazur confesses that he, his fellow law enforcement agents on the front lines, the U.S. public and the world’s communities have been deceived. A small band of the politically powerful have, time and time again, undermined the integrity of “the war on drugs”. It’s not a war; it’s a lie, he writes.
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New Zealand’s central bank takes on first major money laundering investigations
New Zealand’s central bank is well advanced in its first major investigations into anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) compliance failures, as it ramps up its financial crime compliance enforcement presence.
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