UK Financial Reporting Council Revises Audit Standards on Le...
Revised Audit Standards: The UK's Financial Reporting Council has revised ISA (UK) 250 and ISA (UK) 270 to strengthen how auditors consider risks associated with non-compliance with laws and regulations. Risk-Based Appro...
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UK Financial Reporting Council Revises Audit Standards on Legal & Regulatory Compliance
Revised Audit Standards: The UK's Financial Reporting Council has revised ISA (UK) 250 and ISA (UK) 270 to strengthen how auditors consider risks asso...
CPMI and IOSCO Release New Guidance on Managing Business Risks in Financial Market Infrastructures
The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and IOSCO have released final guidance to help financial market infrastructures strengthen...
Decision-Focused Risk Management Sounds Good, but Do CEOs & Boards Really Want It?
Key Takeaways Focus on Mission-Critical Objectives: Tim Leech argues that formal risk management should begin with the objectives most important to or...
CPMI and IOSCO Release New Guidance on Managing Business Risks in Financial Market Infrastructures
The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and IOSCO have released final guidance to help financial market infrastructures strengthen their approach to managing business risks and preparing for potential financial losses. The guidance clarifies existing requirements under Principle 15 of the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures, following an assessment that identified weaknesses in how some institutions were applying the standards.
# Telemedicine CEO Sentenced to 19 Years Over $1 Billion Medicare Fraud Scheme
A Kansas healthcare technology executive has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for his role in a fraud scheme that generated more than $1 billion in claims against Medicare and other federal healthcare programmes. The case exposed how fraudulent medical orders, illegal kickbacks and deceptive telemedicine practices were used to exploit public healthcare funds.
FATF Warns Gaming and Gambling Sectors Face Growing Financial Crime Risks
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has identified new ways criminals are exploiting gaming and gambling platforms to move money, evade controls and support wider criminal activity. With online and cross-border gambling expanding rapidly, the FATF has issued new risk indicators to help regulators, financial institutions and industry operators detect suspicious activity and respond to money laundering, terrorist financing and other financial crime risks.
"The compliance profession has spent two decades building frameworks to detect financial crime. It is now time we build institutions capable of preventing it – not merely reporting it after the fact."
— Dr. Enoch Foluso Amusa, PhD · Founder & Chairman, IGRCFP & The Morgans ConsortiumRead The Full Column
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