Mar 17, 2020 | Beneficial Ownership | OwnerCheck, Due Diligence, Third Party Screening | ScreenCheck, Thought Leadership
No enterprise is untouched by the epic, and sometimes unforeseen, pressures that world events are putting on bottom lines this year. And all of this comes at a time when 2020’s risk management challenges, even prior to the most recent global economic and public...
Mar 4, 2020 | Beneficial Ownership | OwnerCheck, Due Diligence, Executive Background Checks | ExecCheck, Inside IntegrityRisk, Third Party Screening | ScreenCheck, Thought Leadership, Wealth Intelligence | WealthCheck
Our IntegrityRisk team has been around the risk management industry for decades, and we’ve seen tremendous change in the types of business risk companies must contend with. Digital technology has disrupted the way organizations operate, introducing immense cyber risk...
Oct 3, 2019 | Beneficial Ownership | OwnerCheck, Due Diligence, Thought Leadership, Wealth Intelligence | WealthCheck
Efforts around the globe to identify Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO) within companies, trusts and funds have intensified in recent months. This puts extraordinary pressure on global businesses to remain alert to, and in compliance with, fast shifts in the...
May 16, 2019 | Beneficial Ownership | OwnerCheck, Compliance, Third Party Screening | ScreenCheck, Thought Leadership
Recent developments on the US and foreign law enforcement fronts, alongside signals of a potential shift in Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) obligations, renew pressure on entities to ensure that the quality of their beneficial ownership compliance and third-party screening...
Jul 24, 2018 | Beneficial Ownership | OwnerCheck, Due Diligence, Thought Leadership
Beneficial ownership compliance is in flux. Even experienced legislation watchers and savvy compliance experts are confounded by erratic posturing and mixed messages emerging from global jurisdictions. We’ve followed the turns and twists as bankers, lawmakers, and...
Mar 9, 2017 | Beneficial Ownership | OwnerCheck, Thought Leadership
The 2016 release of the Panama Papers cast a spotlight on an issue that financial institutions and real estate firms had been wrestling with for years: the need to step up their processes for verifying beneficial ownership. Even before the Panama Papers, government...