European Agency for Financial Intelligence and Anti-Corruption

The European Agency for Financial Intelligence and Anti-Corruption (AFIAC) is a leading organization comprised of experts, human rights defenders, financiers, analysts, and journalists, who are committed to promoting financial transparency and combating corruption and fraud.

Ethical problems persist in Nomura’s corporate culture 

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Koji Nagai, group CEO of Nomura Holdings Inc., left, apologizes at a news conference in Tokyo on May 24. (Katsunori Takahashi) Nomura Securities Co., Japan’s leading brokerage, has been accused of leaking important nonpublic information to clients in a fresh scandal

Facebook investors vote to fire Mark Zuckerberg as chairman  

According to an analysis of the results by Open Mic — an organization that works with activist shareholders to improve corporate governance at America’s biggest companies — independent shareholders overwhelmingly backed two proposals to weaken Mark Zuckerberg’s power. Some 68% of ordinary investors, those who are not part of management or the board, want to

Man charged with money laundering as part of ‘money mule’ investigation  

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Police have charged a 43-year-old man with money laundering as part of an investigation into individuals suspected of acting as “money mules”. Money mules are people who transfer money acquired illegally on behalf of someone else. The money can be transferred

ED summons senior executives of Deloitte in IL&FS money laundering case

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Trouble is mounting for audit firms as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) issued summons to senior executives of Deloitte Haskins and Sells in connection with an ongoing money laundering probe against Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS). According to enforcement sleuths, audit

How to Use a Physical Security Key to Safeguard Your Exchange Account  

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News A physical security key is a piece of hardware used for verifying you have permission to access sensitive online services. It can be used for securing accounts on cryptocurrency exchanges employing two-factor authentication, replacing more vulnerable methods such as receiving verification

Westpac breach highlights cyber-security threat

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News In yet another breach of what consumers are justified in expecting should be a watertight security environment, the private details of almost 100,000 Australian bank customers have been exposed in a cyber-attack on the real-time payments platform PayID, which allows the

Dominica PM Rosevelt’s corruption exposed by US authorities  

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit faces a series of allegations of corruption, political fraud, money laundering, and involvements into numerous criminal activities, including drug trafficking. For years, he has successfully suffocated the voice of the independent media in that country

Enormous Impact of Ethics & Compliance Training 

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Employee training is a subject that has been examined at length. This ECI research report offers an exclusive ethics and compliance perspective on training.  The report acknowledges a certain amount of overlap with studies that more broadly examine training methods. However,

BlackSquid malware uses bag of exploits to drop cryptocurrency miners  

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News A new form of malware has emerged from the depths to attack web servers with a barrage of exploits designed to land illicit cryptocurrency miners. The overall aim is to compromise web servers, network drives, and removable storage to install XMRig, a