Mission

Good governance, transparency, accountability and the rule of law by enhancing the integrity of financial and other legitimate value exchange systems.

global-financial-intelligence.com (Global-FinInt) is a consultative platform that brings together–on a single online resource–international agreements, laws and regulations, public private initiatives, industry best practices, and other tools for financial intelligence analysis, essential in the global efforts to combat major financial crimes.  

Global-FinInt covers Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Counter-Financing of Terrorism (CFT), Economic Sanctions, Anti-Corruption, Tax Evasion and Asset Recovery efforts on a single platform to assist Financial crimes Compliance (FCC) efforts in public and private institutions.  By consolidating regulatory and compliance efforts on a single platform, Global-FinInt facilitates a holistic view of the complex field of Financial Crimes, and the multi-dimensional regulatory responses to combat such crimes resulting in substantial compliance obligations on private institutions, in particular financial institutions.  

Global-FinInt platform consolidates industry and regulatory best practices for use by policy and decision makers in public and private institutions to assist in the designing of effective and responsive FCC programs.  Global-FinInt disseminates regulatory developments, facilitates knowledge acquisition and training, and eases the identification of interconnections and synergies within these different but related fields, to enhance FCC Governance in all 3 lines of defenses.  

 

The current world, characterized by complex cross-border interconnections and rapid technological innovations, is also a fertile landscape where different typologies, methods and strategies of financial crimes proliferate. 

In order to combat, contain and counter such financial crimes, policy makers and regulators are diligently attempting to enhance their capacities.  Countries across the globe routinely announce new organizations, initiatives and legislations.  On the global scale, organizations such as the United Nations, the European Union and the Financial Action Task Force, among others, prescribe and evaluate the sufficiency and effectiveness of the country level efforts to combat financial crimes.  As the regulatory requirements across the globe have become more stringent, particularly with respect to financial institutions, there has also been marked rise in the willingness of the regulators to impose increasingly punitive enforcement measures on such institutions for failing to comply with anti-financial crimes rules and regulations. 

Professionals engaged in this arena face tremendous challenges to keep up with the evolving typologies and methods to launder proceeds of crimes, finance terrorist activities, evade sanctions etc.  They also need to implement effective systems and craft responsive procedures to counter criminal strategies and comply with a wide range of legal obligations to protect their respective institutions from regulatory risk and monetary and reputational damage. 

Global-FinInt is designed to address the needs of the institutions and professionals engaged in combating financial crimes. 

The Global-FinInt aggregates and efficiently brings together critical resources on financial crimes from a range of authoritative sources on a single user-friendly platform. 

Global-FinInt coverage consists of in-depth materials in the following areas:

• Anti Money Laundering
• Counter Financing of Terrorism
• Economic Sanctions
• Anti Corruption
• Tax Evasion
• Asset Recovery

Features:

• In-depth coverage of the financial crimes areas

• Breaking news

• International Organizations: Treaties, Agreements and resources

• Leading countries: Laws, Resources and Links to key agencies and Financial Intelligence Units

• Compliance guides for banks and financial institutions

• Research, investigation and analysis tools and tips for professionals in the anti-financial crimes compliance field

   

 

Global-FinInt contains curated materials from authoritative sources from multilateral and other authoritative actors leading the efforts to combat financial crimes.  They include organizations and agencies such as the FATF/FSRBs, the EU, the UN and UNODC, the OFAC, the SFO etc.

Global-FinInt's broad platform is intended to help professionals conduct meaningful financial intelligence analysis.  Users can access fundamental learning, design and improve compliance programs in financial and other institutions, track recent developments, consult guides and other tools to drill down on the subject matters, conduct due diligence, investigations to write regulatory reports.

Users can access materials and live links on:

• Treaties, agreements and conventions etc. promulgated to criminalize financial crimes such as money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions evasion;
• Classification and links to key international organizations in the global efforts to combat financial crimes;
• Agencies and bureaus engaged in anti-financial crimes efforts in influential and powerful countries such as the G7 countries;
• Consultative and other materials pertinent for financial and other institutions to design and enhance anti-financial crimes compliance programs, conduct due-diligence and investigations, file regulatory reports and keep up with the developments in this arena.  These include:
  •  practitioners’ guides on best practices, customer due diligence, risk assessment, system design and validation;
  • Materials on methods and typologies of various financial crimes;
  • research and investigative tools;
  • materials on new technologies such as cryptocurrency, digital assets, machine learning and artificial intelligence;
• News and analysis

Practitioners are encouraged to use Global-FinInt: to identify, research, investigate and to combat existing and emerging financial crimes risks and challenges; to craft appropriate regulatory response; to map policies and procedures in order to mitigate financial crimes risks and to discourage illicit use of financial systems, other value exchange systems and organizations.

Global-FinInt is intended for use primarily by:

1. Financial and banking sector professionals, such as:
   • Executive leaders concerned with their organizations' exposure to the regulatory and reputational risks of financial crimes;
   • Compliance professionals and consultants engaged in formulating policies and procedures and designing, testing and assessing the effectiveness of compliance programs and systems;
   • Financial Crimes Investigators and Analysts engaged in investigating and reporting suspicious activities;
2. Government and Regulatory Agencies, such as:
   • Financial Intelligence Units;
   • Regulatory Examiners and Auditors;
   • Investigative and Law Enforcement Agencies;
3. Designated Non-Financial and Business Professions, such as:Precious metals and stones dealers;
   • Casinos and online gambling;
   • Professionals such as Lawers, Accountants and Real Estate Agents;
4. Thought Leaders and Influencers of nonprofits/policy organizations;
5. Journalists, Scholars and others;