Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Whitepaper July 19, 2021 Resilience Practices Can Help Firms Mitigate Supply Chain and Third-Party Provider Risks - Top of Mind Compliance Issues for 2021 Customers are major drivers of change in the marketplace. In times of stress, how well companies manage customer experience and expectation can determine whether they succeed. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, amid demand spikes and panic buying of household items like groceries and cleaning products, companies that successfully addressed customers’ demands (e.g., restocked alternative… Whitepaper January 23, 2024 Ten Things Foreign Financial Institutions Should Know About Executive Order 14114 By Carol BeaumierOn December 22, 2023, when many of us had already started our holiday breaks, President Biden issued Executive Order (EO) 14114, which among other things creates new secondary sanctions risk for foreign financial institutions. For anyone who missed this development or anyone who is simply trying to understand the significance of this EO, here are 10 things we think you should… Podcast May 18, 2021 Podcast - Transaction monitoring and fraud detection in the post-COVID era Welcome to our Hong Kong Risk & Compliance podcast where we're catching up with Michael Wassell, head of head of fraud detection for health care in the New York State Attorney General's Office as he discusses transaction monitoring and fraud detection in a post COVID era in both the across industries. Podcast Transcript May 18, 2021 Transcript - Transaction monitoring and fraud detection in the post-COVID era Welcome to our Hong Kong Risk & Compliance podcast where we're catching up with Michael Wassell, head of head of fraud detection for health care in the New York State Attorney General's Office as he discusses transaction monitoring and fraud detection in a post COVID era in both the across industries. Video April 27, 2021 ESG Today and Tomorrow - Beyond Compliance Please listen in to our ESG virtual fire side chat with the Head of Green and Sustainable Finance at the HKEX, Grace Hui and Protiviti Sr. Managing Director and Co-Vice Chair of SASB, Robert Hirth. Blogs March 20, 2020 Blog: Financial Institutions Should Prepare for High Absenteeism, Operational Disruptions as Coronavirus Outbreak Worsens By Douglas Wilbert, Managing Director - Risk and Compliance and Dugan Krwawicz, Associate Director - Technology Strategy While the scale and duration of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is not yet fully understood, financial institutions, lawmakers, government and regulatory officials are working urgently to implement measures that will arrest the disruption to employees and customers,… Newsletter April 14, 2021 Hong Kong Top Compliance Risks Over the last 12 months, there has been an unprecedented period of uncertainty and disruption globally. In Hong Kong SAR (HKSAR), the period of uncertainty stretched to 24 months, as the social unrest that began in March 2019 led to heightened geopolitical tensions even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020. These two incidents contributed to changes in regulatory priorities and programs… Blogs July 30, 2019 Financial Action Task Force Set to Rate Hong Kong “Compliant” in Anti-Money Laundering Evaluation According to a press release by the Hong Kong government, Hong Kong is set to receive an overall rating of “Compliant” in what will be its Fourth Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Mutual Evaluation. The Mutual Evaluation Report (MER) is scheduled to be released in September 2019. The expected rating represents a significant improvement over the Partially Compliant rating assigned to… Whitepaper April 29, 2022 Credit Pulse Spring 2022 Geopolitical Instability Moves the Goalposts AgainIn this issue of the Credit Pulse, we look at credit risk considering the macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainties that continue to shape the financial services industry in the opening months of 2022. We assess lessons learned during the pandemic and how they’re driving lenders to recalibrate operations to enable greater resiliency in the face… Whitepaper September 9, 2021 Clean Money is a Click Away: The Money Laundering Risks of E-Commerce The global e-commerce market is projected to approach $5 trillion in sales in 2021[1] — pretty impressive for an industry that only came into existence in 1991 when the internet was opened for commercial use. With brick-and-mortar stores shuttered because of COVID-19 and online buying the only option many consumers had, retail e-commerce sales in 2020 grew by double-digits in every region of the… Load More
