Aug 21, 2024 | Beneficial Ownership | OwnerCheck, Compliance, Cryptocurrency Diligence | CryptoCheck, Due Diligence, Executive Background Checks | ExecCheck, Thought Leadership, Uncategorized, Wealth Intelligence | WealthCheck
As the countries of the Middle East strive to diversify their economies and attract foreign investment, they have become intertwined in the global flow of goods and services, beyond just oil and gas production. However, certain jurisdictions in the region have also...
Aug 7, 2024 | Compliance, Due Diligence, Thought Leadership
This is the second in a series of articles on the challenges, limitations, and opportunities presented by artificial intelligence (AI). In our first article, Rise of the Machines?, we looked at the application of AI in our own due diligence industry. We acknowledged...
Jun 18, 2024 | Due Diligence, Executive Background Checks | ExecCheck, Investigations, Thought Leadership
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it filed 784 total enforcement actions in fiscal year 2023, a three percent increase over fiscal year 2022, including 501 original, or “stand-alone,” enforcement actions, an eight percent increase over the...
Jun 10, 2024 | Due Diligence, Thought Leadership
Originally published July 14, 2023 Investment Company Act. False Claims Act. Securities Act. Advisers Act. These and many other compliance regulations exist to prevent fraudulent activities on the part of private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Yet,...
May 3, 2024 | Full Spectrum Diligence, Investigations, Thought Leadership
How to Avoid Endemic Business Risks in a Country so Perón to Crisis Argentina is predictably unpredictable. Once amongst the world’s wealthiest countries during its Belle Époque over a century ago, Argentina has since fallen into a protected economic tailspin. With...
Apr 2, 2024 | Cryptocurrency Diligence | CryptoCheck, Investigations, Thought Leadership
In mid-March, Bitcoin investors sweated out a week of the most volatile trading the cryptocurrency had seen in a year, with prices climbing to an all-time high of $73,794 on March 14, 2024, dropping as low as $64,550 over the weekend, and finally settling at $68,193...
