Sébastien Billot

Financial Crime Compliance Sébastien Billot

Very recently, Financial Crimes have gotten a much more critical topics for Financial Institutions. Regulators are indeed nowadays more inclined to investigate on AML, Corruption or compliance with Embargoes measures than ever before and fine Financial Institutions failing to apply fight against Financial Crime frameworks. At the same time, educational programs are spreading to train professionals and students on Financial Crime risks identification. This book aims at becoming an operational guide for any person looking for an accurate but concise handbook discussing Financial Crime matters. His targeted audience includes professionals seeking for guidelines to implement a risk identification framework and a control set-up to mitigate Financial Crime risks but also students willing to know how Financial Institutions processes are operated. The handbook covers both Banks and Insurance companies on such matters as: -Know Your Counterpart (Know Your Client and other third-parties), -Anti-Money Laundering, -Fight against Bribery and Corruption and, -Fight against terrorism financing, which encompasses controls to prevent fund transfers to Sanctioned parties or involving countries under Embargoes. An introducing section is also dedicated to Permanent Control as to support professionals or students to identify the methodology applying to controls implementat