Articles and news / matters of concern
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- Legalisation of recreational cannabis in Canada: Did you think about the ramifications for your firm when recreational cannabis was being legalised in Canada? Were you ready or have you adapted yet?
- Money laundering through casinos, real estate and luxury items (cars, yachts...). Lots to say on this.
- Beneficial ownership - transparency and disclosure: Who really owns these offshore/shell/shelf companies? Getting behind the fronts that are corporate service providers. Do the Panama and Paradise Papers ring a bell?
- Human trafficking (sex trade, illegal immigration and other forms of slavery) and how financial institutions can join the fight in identifying and reporting the criminals
- The new minefield: virtual currencies
- How to implement an effective counter-terrorist financing programme. You probably think your current AML programme is enough, but I have news for you: "It's not!"
- Do you have international operations, in high risk countries? Have you thought about kidnapping risk?
- International cooperation - Everyone says it's needed, but how can it be achieved, and safely, when balanced against privacy legislation?
- "Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!" (as spoken by Cassio in Shakespeare's Othello, Act 2 Scene 3)
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