OANDA, New York based forex trading serving provider recently revealed in an announcement that it has made a new addition to its APAC region senior level leadership team. As per statement released by the firm…
Director General Rowland launches Guidelines on Preventing Money…
Central Bank launches guidelines to assist firms to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing Criminal Justice Act 2018 provides for enhanced customer due diligence of domestic Politically Exposed Persons Global money laundering estimated at between…
FINRA’s AML Program Explained
Anti-money laundering investigation and enforcement has only gone on in the securities industry for less than two decades, but that does not mean that money laundering is not happening with traders. [caption id="attachment_324757" align="alignleft" width="300"]…
FINRA To Consolidate Examiners
[caption id="attachment_320856" align="alignleft" width="148"] Robert W. Cookat, FINRA President and CEO[/caption] FINRA is consolidating some of its monitoring programs. Bari Havlik is Executive Vice President of the newly named Member Supervision team, at FINRA, the…
Inquiry From EBA Concerning Anti-Money Laundering Supervision
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has today informed the Danish FSA that this week EBA expects to forward a formal inquiry to the Danish FSA concerning the FSA’s handling of anti-money laundering supervision. The background…
FCA Publishes Annual Report and Accounts 2017/18
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published its Annual Report and Accounts, which looks back on the key pieces of work undertaken by the organisation throughout 2017/18. Highlights from this year include: our work to…
BitPay Receives Virtual Currency License From New York
[caption id="attachment_312249" align="alignleft" width="174"] Stephen Pair, CEO of BitPay[/caption] BitPay, a blockchain payments provider headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, has received its Virtual Currency License from the New York Department of Financial Services, which enables…
Technology and global ties: turning the tide on…
Speech by Christopher Woolard, Executive Director of Strategy and Competition at the FCA, delivered at the Anti-Money Laundering TechSprint, London. Speaker: Christopher Woolard, Executive Director of Strategy and Competition Location: Anti-Money Laundering TechSprint, London Delivered on: 24 May 2018…
Muinmos Partners with Northrow to Further Improve the…
RegTech software specialist muinmos has partnered with NorthRow to provide a fully automated process to help companies navigate the compliance issues that come with client onboarding. muinmos PASS, which went live in early 2017…