A Matter of Good Corporate Governance, Good Ethics, and Quite Simply  

Cyber security has risen as a key issue on the radar of virtually all organisations. As a recent AT Kearney report suggests, cyber-attacks have been topping executives’ lists of business risks for three straight years. In fact, the overwhelming majority of organisations have experienced some form of cyber-attack at some point over the past few years. This

The impact of compliance on cloud and the payroll  

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News At a time when so much attention is placed on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union and the Protection of Personal Information Act (Popia) in South Africa, companies must consider a plethora of permutations when it comes

Finance ministry and LHV differ on e-residency money laundering risk  

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News “The aim of the e-residency program is to bring new e-residents to Estonia who consume Estonia’s e-services and, among other things, also conduct their legal business. The purpose of the anti-money laundering rules is to prevent the exploitation of the Estonian

Get vital compliance education in Bangkok this July 

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The importance of compliance and ethics is gaining momentum at corporations across all industries and around the world. Help your organization navigate compliance issues during this time of increased corruption enforcement activity in Asia. Attend the Society of Corporate Compliance’s (SCCE’s) first-ever

Baltimore’s Ransomware Mess Is Its Own Fault 

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Since early May, Baltimore has been grappling with a city-crippling ransomware attack. A fiery debate has erupted within the information security community over who is to blame for the mess. The match that lit the blaze: A story published by the The New York

 Illegal money is in casinos

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News People are spending and raising tons of cash from casinos, betting companies and real estate –and that quantified in tax terms should make government happy but it isn’t. Why? Because most money earned from criminal activities is being washed or laundered

Vancouver considering a ban on Bitcoin ATMs  

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News VANCOUVER—Police have called Bitcoin ATMs “an ideal money-laundering vehicle,” and Vancouver’s mayor has even suggested a ban, but experts and businesses say federal regulation is what’s really needed to rein in a currently unregulated sector. Unlike other money-service businesses such as

Former OLOL foundation president charged with wire fraud and money laundering

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – John Paul Funes, the former president of the Our Lady of the Lake Foundation, was officially charged with wire fraud and money laundering, according to a June 4 news release from the Department of Justice (DOJ).

The EU’s Embassy In Russia Was Hacked But The EU Kept It A Secret

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News BRUSSELS — The European Union’s embassy in Moscow was hacked and had information stolen from its network, according to a leaked internal document seen by BuzzFeed News. An ongoing “sophisticated cyber espionage event” was discovered in April, just weeks before the