Blog post 03 Aug 2023 • 4 min read Why does a financial crime taxonomy need to be built from the bottom up? I have had some super interesting discussions about building a financial crime taxonomy over the last few months, and one question all of these conversations have raised is - can you build a...
Acuminor Reports 31 Jul 2023 • 1 min read A Threat-Led Approach to Financial Crime Prevention Threats occur in the real-world, they involve real people – perpetrators, victims, enablers, insiders - and many other people and objects that get caught up as collateral damage.
Acuminor Reports 11 Apr 2023 • 1 min read The case for a standardised taxonomy for economic crime A threat-matrix should be a dynamic guiding document, one that allows you to understand how criminality perpetrates your organisation and what actions you could take to prevent it. However, it is...
Risk Assessment Blog post 19 Jun 2022 • 5 min read Top 5 pain points for financial crime risk assessments Over the last year, Acuminor have spoken to hundreds of regulated institutions about their financial crime risk assessments.
Blog post 13 Feb 2022 • 3 min read The spider's web of threat detection: which threats you are catching? When I think about transaction monitoring rules, I like to imagine a mess of spider’s webs – overlapping and tangled together. The webs are so large and tangled that they catch many flies, more than...
