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4 steps for effective anti-money laundering compliance training

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  AML training can effectively help detect and report suspicious activity in your organization—including the predicate offenses to money laundering and terrorist financings, such as securities fraud and market manipulation. You can explore our anti-money laundering course and other effective compliance training material with a free trial here. 

Battling E-Learning Fatigue in 5 Ways: Adjusting to the New Normal

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  E-learning weakness is the new side effect of this new type. The spread of the pandemic and the going with limitations of social removing among others is driving significant colleges and schools to rehash their way to deal with instructing and learning. On the off chance that you glance through the news for the beyond a couple of weeks, there will be plenty of articles discussing different colleges taking on an e-learning approach till what is going on gets to the next level. While virtual learning is turning into a standard, accompanying it is e-learning exhaustion. Perpetually, every one of the partners including the understudies, personnel along institutional bodies is investigating approaches to successfully manage this e-learning exhaustion. The goal is to make virtual learning a hearty other option and change to a mixed learning approach as the circumstance standardizes. Considering how you can cause your post to Coronavirus time more useful? Look at these abilities you can...

5 Steps to a Comprehensive AML Programme

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  Don’t let the title fool you. Establishing a comprehensive AML Program may involve “Five Steps” – but the steps are giant. We’ll break them down, but each area is time-consuming and takes a focused mindset. We don’t suggest holding someone new to the AML profession solely responsible for implementing an AML Programme. Senior Management needs to understand that there are significant financial and reputational risk exposures if you have an underdeveloped AML Programme. Seek the input of an experienced advisor rather than trying to build a programme alone if you don’t have the experience. for more info check out 5 Steps to a Comprehensive AML Programme .

The most effective method to Combat Online Training Fatigue

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  We're finding out about "online course weakness" and "Zoom weariness" following quite a while of working on the web. Regardless of whether you're sufficiently fortunate to be back in the workplace consistently, you might in any case be going about a lot of your responsibilities on the web and collaborating from a distance. You're additionally probable actually doing a great deal of internet preparing and requiring your associates to take web-based preparation to consent to your enemy of anti-money laundering staff training . In any case, in an exceptionally controlled industry where you basically should keep on giving preparation to the staff at your association, how might you guarantee your internet preparing program is powerful in a distant world? How might you switch things up a bit? How might you urge staff to concentrate and comprehend the significance of your enemy of tax evasion approaches and methodology? The following are a couple of thoughts...

Why Your Business Needs An Anti-Money Laundering Solution

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  AML regulations have been changing rapidly in recent years, both in-depth and breadth. The AML 2020 Act, for example, includes the most sweeping changes in AML laws since The Patriot Act was passed in the wake of 9/11 in 2001. Among other changes, the new act focuses on: Eliminating anonymous holding companies  Expanding its definitions to include antiquities traders and virtual currencies This means companies are required to know exactly who their customers are, and businesses that facilitate the transfer of virtual currencies are under greater scrutiny. To learn more about AML compliance , check out our website. It will walk you through the best practices you need to help keep bad actors away from your business.

Effective AML Training in Four Steps

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  Anti-money laundering training (AML) is a critical part of any business that operates in the international financial sector. Any allegations of money laundering involving your organization can cause serious reputational damage, incur severe penalties, and significantly damage one’s career. As the AML Compliance Officer, Money Laundering Reporting Officer, or Risk Manager of your company it is important that you can demonstrate you have provided adequate AML training. A company’s weakest link is always one of the employees – so company-wide money laundering awareness and compliance training are very important because it can help protect you and your organization from severe penalties if you can prove you provided sufficient and relevant AML training . While everyone understands that effective anti-money laundering training is essential, not everyone understands how to build an effective training program. The process is relatively simple and can be summed up in four steps: Use Real...

5 Key Components of an AML Compliance Program

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  Security controls continue to advance in order to keep financial businesses stress- and fraud-free. Though, not everything in the garden is rosy: incorporating new measures doesn’t come as smoothly as it should. Business owners have to invest their time and resources in renovating their Anti-Money Laundering ( AML) and Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF) policies, building compliance programs more steadily.

Due Diligence - Physical Security and Visitors

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  With the prevalence of cyber-related attacks and data breaches, it is easy for the focus of small business leaders to be drawn away from the physical security of their organization. But without a solid base of physical security, the policies and procedures we put in place to mitigate cyber-attacks become useless. When implemented correctly, physical security should: Prevent unauthorised persons accessing your premises, information or assets; Maintain the trust and confidence of the people and organisations you serve or work with; Deliver services without disruption in the event of a disaster; Meet any regulatory obligations your business falls under. Put simply, physical security is the combination of physical and procedural measures implemented to mitigate risks to your people, information and assets. Just like with any other steps we take to minimise potential harm to our businesses, the best way to start is with a risk-based approach. The people, information, physical assets a...

What is anti-money laundering compliance?

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  An anti-money laundering program is a set of regulations and procedures that financial institutions follow to prevent and detect money laundering or terrorist financing activities. Request demo AML Compliance Software at SILO Compliance Systems.

Acuris Risk Intelligence partners with SILO Compliance to boost AML Investigations

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  Acuris Risk Intelligence, a provider of data intelligence and cybersecurity professionals, recently announced its partnership with diligence management solutions provider SILO Compliance System to enhance  Anti-Money Laundering  (AML) efforts. Based in the Cayman Islands,  SILO Compliance  is a comprehensive and risk-based diligence management solutions platform, providing its services to corporate service providers, law and accounting firms, and other financial organizations services providers that observe AML regulations. Established in 2004 as C6,  Acuris Risk Intelligence  has now become as one of the top suppliers of proprietary data on PEPs, sanctions, and AML data for due diligence and compliance. It’s a trusted and independent provider of data intelligence for anti-money laundering, anti-corruption, and cybersecurity professionals. The company claims that it combines a world-class dataset, that includes fraud and  cybersecurity  con...

Methods to Shore up your Anti-Money Laundering Training

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  Most industries now require all staff and management to undergo anti-money laundering training annually. Banking, insurance, law and accounting firms, trust and corporate services providers and others have anti-money laundering regulatory obligations and ongoing AML training requirements. This is because these industries are often dealing with high value transactions, international banking transactions and complex corporate structures that can be used to hide currency transfers that hide criminal proceeds. Here are 3 methods to shore up anti-money laundering training . Check out SILO Compliance Systems...

Your Company Needs AML Practices

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  In business, one of the most important assets that you have is capital. Every company looks for ways of generating more revenue, but there are limits to how your company can acquire and use its money. If you are not careful, money laundering could become a serious problem that puts the future of your company on the line. This is especially true in international business operations where money laundering becomes more difficult to predict and track. Although you don’t want to be involved in a money-laundering scheme, there is a real chance that someone will use your company for their own, nefarious ends.  What is AML Compliance? Anti-money laundering compliance practices have proven effective at reducing criminal activity on a global scale. This includes anti-money laundering training for your staff and implementing AML compliance software to automate and check for potential fraud. These are all components of a strong corporate AML compliance prog...

Assessing the Risk Categories

  In a previous newsletter I spoke on three basic steps required when conducting a risk-based approach risk assessment of your business. Step one was to assess the risk of the four different categories within your business which include clients, products, countries, and channels. The second step was to determine what your business’ risk appetite is. And the final step is to review your internal controls. In today’s article we will look a bit more in detail at how to assess your business’ clients, products, countries, and channels. The first category we have are your clients. Remember to keep in mind that you want to tailor your risk assessment based on your institution or firm. All businesses are different and will require different policies, procedures, and controls based on who and what you are dealing with. Let’s start with an easy enough question in terms of your customer base; Who are your customers? Sounds simple enough, but you’ll need to dig to find out information on who y...

Cyber security risk analysis

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  Cybersecurity article series: Cybersecurity risk analysis Staff training Detecting a breach and immediate action Recovering from a breach Cybersecurity risk analysis The first in our series of articles on cybersecurity will cover aspects of risk analysis for your business. Risk analysis is something that everyone in the world of regulatory compliance and AML is familiar with and deals with every day. For the most part though, our focus tends to be on external risks like new clients, businesses and industry practices. When performing a risk analysis on our assets in relation to cybersecurity, we must also have a clear focus on internal threats.

Completing IT Risk Assessments

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  In the world of Compliance, risk assessments are the foundation of a protected business. Knowing what risks are out there, how to mitigate them, and what your risk appetite is, will all help to ensure vulnerabilities and shortfalls can be addressed and managed properly. Just like with compliance, IT risk assessments are especially important because the risk landscape is constantly evolving, making it harder to keep up with the changes in risk to your business. Risk assessments can also help to keep costs under control and make audits more efficient. The following steps will assist your business in undertaking a quality IT risk assessment. Identify all possible  vulnerabilities : Make time to document all the possible vulnerabilities that could pose a risk to your business. Include ransomware, DDoS attacks, phishing campaigns, possible routes into your networks and which departments or personnel are more vulnerable than others. Also note any gaps in your current security po...

How to Find Your AML Compliance Gaps

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  As an avid reader, my favorite genre is mystery.  A good mystery writer will drop a clue now and then, just enough to keep me guessing and occasionally I may be able to figure out who did the deed once I reach The End. However, as much as I love a good mystery, a compliance manual should not read like one.  And yet, sadly, so many do.  Too many require the reader to hunt for the clues to a company’s anti-money laundering (AML) processes and policies and approach to risk analysis.

Anti Money Laundering Compliance System

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  SILO is Designed to Make AML Compliance Simpler, Faster, and More Comprehensive.  If you’re constantly updating spreadsheets to manage your Anti-Money Laundering customer due diligence obligations, SILO Compliance System is for you. AML compliance is too important to be managed on a spreadsheet or through a “module” bolted on as an afterthought to an accounting or document management system.