Seamless Middle East Postponement to September
We wanted to let you know that, in light of the recent global developments around the COVID-19 virus, the event organiser has decided to postpone
We wanted to let you know that, in light of the recent global developments around the COVID-19 virus, the event organiser has decided to postpone
ICG MECOS is delighted to announce its participation as an exhibitor in the Seamless Exhibition, Dubai World Trade Centre, 25 - 26 March 2020.
A recent report on Cyprus by MONEYVAL (the Council of Europe’s anti-money laundering body) asked for more aggressive procedures on tackling AML/CFT. It concluded that Cyprus understands the money laundering and terrorist financing risks that it faces to a large extent, albeit the understanding of terrorist financing risk is less comprehensive. MONEYVAL noted that major improvements are necessary, on various aspects, for the effectiveness of the Cypriot AML/CFT regime.
According to a 2019 LexisNexis cost of fraud study, whether you’re a massive institution or a small firm, you’re experiencing the effects of fraud. It affects all parts of the industry, and is increasing sharply everywhere.
Every sector is experiencing fraud differently. As you might expect, due to the large volume of transactions processed, mid/large banks continue to report the most fraud attempts (2,278 per month), with mid/large lending firms not faring much better (1,565 attempts per month).
Sanction lists are growing daily and sanctions published by the multiple different issuing bodies don’t alwa