Risk Assessment Money Laundering Terrorist Financing Blog post 31 Jul 2023 • 10 min read How competent authorities can enhance their risk assessments Background and Purpose The European Banking Authority (EBA) have recently published a report assessing the AML/CFT supervision approach of twelve Competent Authorities (CAs) [EBA/REP/2023/20]....
Terrorist Financing Acuminor Reports 01 Feb 2023 • 2 min read Detecting the financing of right-wing extremism Combatting Terrorism Financing: Right Wing Extremism Emerges as Priority, But Detection Remains a Challenge
Money Laundering Terrorist Financing Blog post 20 Apr 2022 • 4 min read Financial and social inclusion at risk due to blanket de-risking On the 5th of January 2022 the European Banking Authority (EBA) published their opinion on de-risking (EBA/Op/2022/01). The EBA is taking a critical stance towards the de-risking strategies used by...
Money Laundering Compliance Terrorist Financing Blog post 13 Feb 2022 • 1 min read Pliance x Acuminor – Seminar Summary Before Christmas we hosted a seminar together with one of our partners, Pliance , at Norrsken House in Stockholm. The topic was “Financial crime regulations – cost or opportunity for FinTech’s in the...
Money Laundering Terrorist Financing Sanction Violations Blog post 02 Sep 2021 • 5 min read The rise and fall of the national risk assessment Let’s start with the summary: The 6th EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive poses a potential threat towards EU’s fight against money laundering, terrorist financing and sanction violations. Worrying?...
Money Laundering Compliance Terrorist Financing Sanction Violations Acuminor News 25 Aug 2021 • 2 min read Another tier 1 bank places its trust in Acuminor Acuminor is delighted to announce it has engaged in a new collaboration with another international financial institution to provide its financial crime threat intelligence database, ThreatView.
Money Laundering Terrorist Financing Sanction Violations Blog post 11 Aug 2021 • 4 min read We all know our high-risk countries, don’t we? North Korea. Iran. Myanmar. Because it’s easy – Just take the FATF grey list, the EU high-risk third countries and top up with Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index and we’re home...
Money Laundering Terrorist Financing Sanction Violations Blog post 27 Jun 2021 • 5 min read The Map: How to create effective Business-wide financial crime risk assessments Imagine that you are in a vast forest. It’s getting darker and you have no idea how to find your way back home. Without a map you’ll probably end up even more lost. Best case, you’ll find your way...
Terrorist Financing Tax Crimes Europe Narcotics China Smuggling Weekly Round-Up 23 Jun 2021 • 3 min read Weekly Round-Up June 24, 2021 It’s Midsummer! Here in Sweden, it’s an old (really old) national holiday, somewhat like the Christmas of the summer, with a bit of the same food but with no gifts. Some of you might be tired this...
Money Laundering Compliance Terrorist Financing Canada Netherlands Philippines Australia Sanction Violations Cybercrime USA Sweden Germany Weekly Round-Up 06 May 2021 • 4 min read Weekly Round-Up May 7, 2021 Child sexual abuse networks taken down by law enforcement On Monday, Europol came out with a press release about a joint police operation. Law enforcement in Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden,...
Money Laundering Compliance Terrorist Financing Spain Sanction Violations Sweden Weekly Round-Up 02 May 2021 • 3 min read Weekly Round-up May 3, 2021 The week has gone by fast. When doing a brief retrospect, we want to pass on a few pieces of information for your weekend reading. Our week started off with the OCCRPs article relating to the Italian...
Money Laundering Compliance Terrorist Financing Netherlands Denmark United Kingdom Norway Sanction Violations Weekly Round-Up 29 Apr 2021 • 3 min read Weekly Round-up April 30, 2021 To branch out a bit on our regular story reporting, we wanted to share a bit on what is happening @Acuminor. Things are moving fast!
Risk Assessment Money Laundering Compliance Terrorist Financing Acuminor News 25 Apr 2021 • 1 min read Leading global car leasing company signs agreement with Acuminor We are delighted to announce we have signed an agreement with one of the foremost global car leasing companies, who have partnered with us to help support their financial crime risk management.
