Jamil Ahmed: How financial compliance teams will evolve in 2021 HSBC Singapore’s chief compliance officer, Jamil Ahmed, discusses the skills and mindsets that compliance officers will need to develop as…
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BLOG: APAC regional spotlight from Cost of Compliance 2021: shaping the future
Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence has carried out its 12th annual survey on the cost of compliance focusing on the challenges the compliance functions at financial services firms around the world expect to face in the year ahead.
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Report: Singapore’s Regime on Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism
Singapore’s openness as an international transport hub and financial centre presents inherent risk exposure to cross-border money-laundering and terrorism financing opportunities. While a strict legislative framework is in place to…
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Whitepaper: Building a Cyber-Aware Compliance Culture
“We’re going to build systems, people are going to find vulnerabilities, we’re going to close those vulnerabilities and attackers will find new ones. And it’s just going to keep rolling…
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IMPACT ANALYSIS: Financial Stability Institute paper on supervising crypto-assets for AML highlights divergence risks
The Financial Stability Institute of the Bank for International Settlements has published a policy paper on supervising crypto-assets for money laundering. The paper highlights that the supervision of crypto-asset service…
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Regtech: The Governance Lifecycle
By Susannah Hammond and Mike Cowan from Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence It is estimated that the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation by as much as three years. Regulatory technology (regtech)…
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Speed, volume of regulatory change continue to challenge firms in Asia – poll
The pace and volume of regulatory change will be the single greatest challenges for compliance officers across the Asia-Pacific region in 2021.
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Brace yourself: New Risk Alerts on Terrorism Financing in Singapore
Our in-depth analysis of Singapore’s Terrorism Financing National Risk Assessment reveals which types of firms are most vulnerable to enabling financial crime. Financial institutions in Singapore are at a high…
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Shining the spotlight on anti-money laundering in Asia
Expert analysis by Brian Burke, Mathew Orr and Rishikeesh Wijaya, Shearman & Sterling LLP This article was originally published on Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence. Effective enforcement of anti-money laundering (AML)…
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10 Things Compliance Officers in APAC Must Do This Year
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. By March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic…
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