The problem that compliance officers face, when dealing with new foreign customers who declare that they are merely successful businessmen in their home country, is ruling them out as Politically ...
There appears to be a difference of opinion among compliance officers conducting enhanced due diligence investigations: do you run the target's image through your facial recognition program at the ...
The identification of Politically Exposed Persons, more commonly known as PEPs, remains one of the most difficult challenges facing compliance officers at international banks, especially when the ...
Does your prospective bank client's passport information match up with known photographs of the subject? Or is the passport simply an alias?The proliferation of Citizenship by Investment passports, ...
I recently published, as exhibits to my article on the widespread use by Asian organized crime syndicates, counterfeit and altered HSBC bank documents, used to commit massive bank fraud in the ...
My name is Monte Friesner and I am a former money launderer who now practices as a Financial Crime Analyst, especially lecturing on the criminal activity of High Yield Investment Programs that do not ...
President Barack Obama was not a war criminal despite US involvement in wars in Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan and against ISIS. His predecessor George W. Bush was. Apart from anything else his ...
Citing South Korean newspaper articles, a story in a security publication noted that a senior North Korean colonel, assigned to a special unit, has defected while in China, and that he allegedly took ...
