The Ugly Ones are NOT YET born
The late Pablo Escobar, famous for the wrong reasons, was regarded as the richest and most successful criminal in world history. In 1989, Forbes magazine declared Escobar as the seventh (7th)...
The Presidential Royal Asian Tigers Greed
https://open.spotify.com/show/3Mz3JvBaVFtoQSHW0E3mpd Over the last 30 years, the amount of money laundered has steadily been increasing. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime approximately...
Pan-Africanism and call for Unity in Diversity
There appears to be some new wave and breeze of yet another “dispensation” sweeping across the entire Continent of Africa. It may not happen just yet, soon or now, but the momentum has been...
Why Banks carry out Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) on Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)
Some few salient points for further debate, discussion and dialogue. In my book, Financial Crime Risk Management and Compliance (2016) , I have provided some simpler working definitions for everyone...
Indonesia’s Ex-President Suharto’s greed
Surprisingly, it is not only in Africa where some Political Leaders want to cling on to power for more than three (3) decades in Office, Asia has had its own share of such leaders. The immense scale...
Customer Due Diligence (CDD) – Final Rule
The regulatory landscape of Know Your Customer (KYC) Policies and Customer Due Diligence (CDD) requirements and expectations for Financial Institutions like Banks, Brokers, FinTech and Insurance...
