A compilation of guides, how-to's, tips and more from CCL Academy's highly professional subject matter experts who have significant industry/practitioner experience.
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Trade Based Financial Crime and Managing the Compliance Risk
According to the WTO Trade Volume Index 2022, world trade volumes have grown between 4% - 6% annually since 1995, and the total value of annual trade currently stands at around USD 31.0 trillion. This vast and still growing volume... -
How to combat Trade-Based Money Laundering: Podcast
Bruce Viney features in this month's episode of The Laundry as a guest speaker where he discusses how to combat Trade-Based Money Laundering. -
The patterns of AML compliance failures, and what they mean for your own firm
For those working in financial services, it is important to understand how and why enforcement action is taken against firms. This helps us assess our own firm’s AML controls against the key areas of failure highlighted in the cases, and... -
Compliance training – face-to-face or virtual?
Peter Haines discusses the ‘new normal’ in terms of hybrid working, and what this means for a firm’s compliance training programme. -
Proliferation financing: Carrying out a risk assessment
Proliferation financing can be considered to be the provision or processing of funds which are linked to the illegal manufacture, acquisition, development, transfer or use of chemical, nuclear or biological weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery and... -
Fraud and the outlook for 2023
In the UAE, the Central Bank has formed a National Fraud Awareness Campaign in conjunction with Abu Dhabi police, Dubai police and others aimed at motivating customers to fight fraud by being informed. It has been reported that Dubai police... -
Reducing the risk of greenwashing of investment products
With rising concern about climate change pushing people to act in a responsible and sustainable way, the demand for financial services products and services with green or ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) credentials is increasing. As a result, so too... -
Sanctions - ownership and control issues
Ownership and control of entities has received significant media attention recently following the introduction of the UK Register of Overseas Entities on 1 August 2022. The Register requires foreign entities that own land or property in the UK to provide... -
3 steps towards an effective compliance training strategy
Michael Sacks, Director of Digital Learning Strategy at CCL Academy reveals how firms can enhance their compliance training strategy by taking three simple steps. Step 1... -
Building a strong culture in financial services
Culture has always been vital to an organisation’s reputation and long-term success, and it remains central to how regulators supervise financial services firms. A culture of ethics and integrity doesn’t happen by accident, and it needs more than policies and... -
Takeaways from the Pandora Papers Data Leak
The Pandora Papers is the latest (and largest) offshore data leak to hit the headlines. Like the Panama Papers (2016) and the Paradise Papers (2017) it exposes the secret offshore affairs of wealthy and powerful individuals – including more than...