What is the Right Number of SARs? Is Low Reporting a Sign of Weak Compliance?
What is the Right Number of SARs? Is Low Reporting a Sign of Weak Compliance? And how should they be used to demonstrate the ‘effectiveness’ of a firm’s framework of anti-financial crime controls? [Updated for 2025]
Financial crime professionals are…
Why Firms Are Still Struggling with FWRAs – And How to Get It Right
It has been nearly ten years since the FCA released its Thematic Review (TR14/16) How Small Banks Manage Money Laundering and Sanctions Risk in November 2014, which highlighted critical deficiencies in financial crime systems and controls. The repor…
Boost the Effectiveness of EDD, SARs, and PEP Reviews using OSINT
In the evolving landscape of financial crime and terrorism financing (TF), the need for advanced investigative tools and techniques has never been greater. Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is a game-changer, offering financial crime professionals th…
Is your Counter Terrorism Financing Framework effective?
As we approach the 23rd anniversary of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the critical role financial professionals play in combating terrorism financing (CTF) remains as pertinent as ever. The 9/11 attacks highlighted how terrorist groups exp…
What is OSINT?
OSINT is Open Source Intelligence Investigation Training. It is a specific training course which helps risk and compliance professionals to learn and develop new skills to search the Internet safely and securely, whilst also obtaining and validating…
Effective Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) Training
One of the most common questions that we are asked by our clients is, “What is the most effective way to train our staff knowing that for some, financial crime compliance (“FCC”) training is perceived to be a boring subject?”
Our response is always…
Financial crime compliance – do you know everything there is to know?
It’s difficult to keep up when change is happening so fast. Here at Great Chatwell Academy of Learning we are offering a series of public financial crime compliance workshops in London and Birmingham starting in June 2018 that are designed to suppor…
Cross Border Risk Conference – a Post Event Update
At Great Chatwell Academy of Learning, we are continually looking to improve our offering by getting feedback from attendees at our courses and conferences. Recently, we had plenty of really positive feedback from our recent Cross Border Risk Confer…