Oct 4, 2021 | Advisory, Risk & Compliance, Insights
The Maltese financial services industry is a tightly regulated sector. Some would certainly argue that financial services operators are shackled by over-regulation, especially following the financial crisis of 2008/09. When operators are required to comply with...Apr 23, 2020 | Insights, Advisory, Risk & Compliance
An online webinar in April saw the much-anticipated official launch of the ACAMS Malta Chapter. The Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), the largest international membership organization of financial crime prevention professionals with a...Apr 6, 2020 | Insights, Advisory, Risk & Compliance
Try casting your mind back to two years ago? Back then, organisations were busy preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation, our email inboxes were brimming with consent requests and at business conferences the topic of privacy was unavoidable. An...Mar 13, 2020 | Insights, Risk & Compliance
The risk-based approach to AML / CFT is at the heart of European anti-money laundering legislation and regulation. Dominic Fisher, Head of Risk & Compliance (Advisory) at ARQ reviews the challenge of integrating AML risk concepts and enterprise wide risk...Mar 2, 2020 | Insights, Risk & Compliance
An REQ (‘risk evaluation questionnaire’) is an annual regulatory submission related to Anti-Money Laundering. In 2019, the first year of the REQ, organisations generally struggled with the deadline and the FIAU sent no less than 207 letters to subject persons who had...Feb 19, 2020 | Risk & Compliance, Insights
ARQ’s Dominic Fisher Reviews The MFSA’s New Corporate Governance Consultation One feature of the popular multiplayer online game Fortnite, is the ever decreasing playing area as the storm engulfs the virtual island on which the game is set. Similarly there will...
