Simone Jones
This post has been provided courtesy of ICA
Ensuring your employees are adequately trained in anti money laundering (AML) is a crucial component of managing financial crime risk. Not only is it vital to protect your firm, but it’s often required by regulations. In the UK for instance, …
Curiosity is not often seen as an attractive trait : as the saying goes ‘curiosity killed the cat’. But for compliance professionals, I would argue that it is a key skill we need to improve both personally and professionally, and …
Training can be a powerful tool to drive behavioural change. But to be truly effective, learners need to bridge the gap between what they know, and how to apply that knowledge in their daily role. Crafting a learning experience through …
Mandatory training can be a difficult topic to broach with staff, who carry with them memories of low-budget health and safety videos or generic e-learning compliance modules with little interaction. Employees know that it must be completed, often with consequences …
G lobal in its scope, it’s important to recognise that n o country or sector is immune from c orruption . It remains an issue affecting a diverse range of countries across the world. However , there are factors that …
The festive season is well and truly upon us. Some of the common themes of this season are the giving, and receiving of, gifts and invitations to different parties and events. Often fraught with difficulty (will family members actually like …
It is often said that the only c onstant in life is change, but in the 21 st century change itself is evolving, becoming quicker and less predictable. Technological advances that seemed like science fiction only 20 years ago have …
The question of whether technology and automation will replace humans in the workplace isn’t new. Today we talk of artificial intelligence (AI) and robots, but the threat posed to workers by technology goes much further back – when Henry Ford …
Virtual currencies – four key updates in 2019 Move over Bitcoin and Blockchain – there’s a new raft of terminology to come to terms with in the form of virtual assets, crypto-derivatives and Libra. Adding to the mix the recent …
Verifying the identity of a customer can be as gloriously simple as meeting a customer face-to-face and taking a copy of their original passport and a utility bill. On the other side of the client due diligence ( CDD ) …