- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Aaron Nicodemus2022-09-16T14:30:00
Determining the ultimate beneficial owner (UBO) of individuals and companies your firm does business with can be a tricky thing.
Find out too little about your customers and counterparties, and your firm unknowingly could be partnering with sanctioned individuals, terrorist groups, or money launderers. Tasking a compliance department to ferret out who is behind every bank account and shell company in your firm’s network, though, is impossible using manual processes.
So, where is the sweet spot on understanding the UBO of the entities your firm does business with? And what technology is available to get you there?
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The reporting requirements of the beneficial ownership information registry being developed by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network will likely be revised following harsh criticism from lawmakers and businesses.
The Department of Justice’s charges against a U.K. businessman and his Russian partner for evading U.S. sanctions against a Russian oligarch provide insight into how the use of shell companies, third parties, and other methods can thwart the compliance efforts of financial institutions.
Determining the true owner of a company might become more difficult after Europe’s top court ruled automatic access to registers of beneficial ownership conflicted with the right to privacy.
A Bank of England report warned of private equity risk management deficiencies as interest rates remain stagnant, with international coordination important.
Compliance departments at financial institutions must become more involved in ensuring their firm’s operational resiliency to address emerging risks, the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said in its semi-annual risk perspective.
Compliance has been “sleeping on” artificial intelligence, two panelists discussed at Compliance Week’s Women in Compliance Summit. The profession should be positioned to lead on AI governance at the business level.
