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Background 11.5 million documents, a staggering number, were leaked from Panamanian law firm ‘Mossack Fonseca’ in 2015. The contents of these documents, mostly financial information about wealthy indi...
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The 2016 Global Terrorism Index reported a 650% increase in deaths from terrorism amongst OECD member countries. In this environment, it is no surprise that governments are making a strong attempt to...
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This week's CSFI (Council for the Study of Financial Innovation) discussion between representatives from the Bank of England, VC Illuminate Financial and Kompli-Global, an intelligent KYC/AML utility,...
At the occasion of the 2017 Standards Forum to be held at Sibos in Toronto, Canada from 16 to 19 October, I interviewed a number of SWIFT standards experts about the content of this year's programme....