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VENDORS KEEP PUSHIING HIGH TECH CDD SOLUTIONS – COULD THEY ENABLE A NEW MODEL FOR AML?



Vendors continue to roll out what they claim are ever more powerful CDD/KYC systems, helping enable compliance with increasingly comprehensive ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) laws.

But do these technologies offer the AML community the potential to consider a new model – focusing on robust CDD by obliged entities, without the need to report STRs, and relying on better financed law enforcement to demand information via subpoenas to firm up ML cases?…

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HACKING BACK MAYBE ILLEGAL BUT ACTIVE CYBER DEFENCE IS NOT – WHERE IS THE REGUATORY BOUNDARY?



With cyberattacks on the rise, organisations are having to devote ever more time and resources to defending against malicious activity – and some are now considering active defences, hacking back the hackers, to deter them and maybe damage their ability to harm victims.…

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GROWING INDIAN PREMIUM SPIRITS MARKET FUELLED BY RISING INCOMES AND FALLING PRICES



India’s premium spirits market is growing fast with rising incomes and sharply falling prices in many states boosting sales. India’s gross national income per head in 2021 was USD7,220 compared to USD4,190 in 2010, according to World Bank data. With more money, “Indians are drinking better, but unlike the west [also] drinking more,” Ruchika Gupta, marketing director of Beam Suntory told Just Drinks.…

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A BUILDING SITE FOR FRAUD AND CORRUPTION - FRAUD IN THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR



The global construction industry is highly vulnerable to fraud and corruption say industry specialists, who argue such crime can account for up to 30% of the sector’s overall costs.

“A whole load of factors make the construction sector a building site for fraud and corruption.…

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CHARACTER-BASED RECRUITMENT MAKES SENSE AS FRAUD CASES GROW FAST



With corporate fraud rising fast, “hiring for character as well as competence is now the hottest trend” in recruitment practice, Bruce Weinstein, a high-profile USA-based business ethics speaker has told Fraud Intelligence. Securing honest senior managers and board members matters, said the self-styled ‘The Ethics Guy’, who has worked for All State Insurance, the National Football League, Northrop Grumman, the South Carolina National Guard, and more: “It is not only possible to do this; it is essential,” Mr Weinstein stressed.…

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EUROPEAN AND UK EXPORTERS DECREASE AMERICAN FORMULA SHORTAGE, BUT TRADE HINDERED BY RED TAPE



Continental European and British manufacturers are stepping up to supplement the depleted US infant formula market, but their efforts may be limited by too little supply and too much red tape. “In the short run, major export volumes from the EU [European Union] to the US in these products is not a very realistic expectation,” said Pekka Pesonen, secretary general of Copa-Cogeca, which represents EU farmers and agri-cooperatives.…

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FRAUDSTERS EXPLOIT CIRCUMSTANCES AS MUCH AS VICTIM PERSONALITY TRAITS TO TARGET THEIR MARKS, SAY EXPERTS



Despite the widespread warnings about the risk of fraud, victims are still often their own worst enemy, displaying significant gullibility, especially when they are rushed and under pressure, fraud experts have shown.

Indeed, while older people who are less technically literate are often more vulnerable to scams than younger tech-savvy consumers, it is victims’ circumstances that can make them particularly susceptible, noted UK-based bank fraud consultant Richard Emery.…

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IRISH ACCOUNTANTS HELP CLIENTS NEGOTIATE COMPLEX GENDER PAY GAP CALCULATIONS



Irish accountants are actively helping clients understand the country’s Gender Pay Gap Information Act, in force from May 31 (1), requiring firms to publicly report gender pay gaps – and action to solve them – in their organisations.

Companies and advisors are concerned about the tight June-to-December timescale for reporting pay data, said Aoife Newton who leads KPMG’s gender pay gap (GPG) reporting services: “The timeline for reporting is very limited.…

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CLEAR HALAL AND STUNNING LABELLING NEEDED TO HELP CONSUMERS CHOOSE MEAT SAY ANIMAL RIGHTS AND HALAL GROUPS



Consumers in Europe need to be offered clear labelling so that they only buy halal meat, especially from animals not pre-stunned before slaughter, if they want to, animal rights organisations and halal groups have told Salaam Gateway.

“We think it would be helpful if all meat was labelled pre-stunned or not so people can make informed choices,” said Dr Nick Palmer, head of Compassion in World Farming UK, an animal welfare campaign and lobbying group: “It is undesirable for non-pre-stunned meat to be accidentally purchased by consumers who would prefer to avoid it.”…

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EU TEXTILE HEAD CALLS FOR ACTION TO COMBAT RISING ENERGY PRICES



 

THE CURRENT global energy crisis and its attendant price rises have had “a dramatic impact on the profitability of many companies” in the textile and clothing sector, and a European Union (EU)-wide cap on gas prices is essential, Dirk Vantyghem, director general of the European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex), has told WTiN.…

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