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SUMMARY:Proliferation Financing\, Emerging and Current Challenges and Assessing Risk
DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Finance and Security at RUSI is delighted to invite you to join its upcoming webinar ‘Proliferation Financing\, Emerging and Current Challenges and Assessing Risk’. The MENA region’s complex geopolitical landscape presents unique risks in this area\, making it essential for both regulators and private sector stakeholders to grasp the issue and prepare for the upcoming Mutual Assessment cycle\, where proliferation financing will receive increased attention. \nThis 1-hour session will examine the challenges in implementing proliferation financing measures and explore how the upcoming round of FATF evaluations\, along with recent updates to FATF Recommendation 1 on proliferation financing risk assessments\, will affect financial institutions. \nTo join the event on the day\, please click on this URL. \nPlease find below the agenda and speakers for the webinar: \nAgenda\n\n\n\n10:00 – 10:05 Introductions \n10:05 – 10:25 | Addressing Counter-Proliferation Finance and Sanctions Challenges in Banking \nRUSI experts will set the stage by identifying the key challenges banks encounter in implementing counter-proliferation finance and sanctions controls\, while sharing insights from their research and training initiatives. \n10:25 – 10:40 | Approaching Proliferation Financing and Risk Assessment \nIn this session\, experts will explore the key challenges facing the private sector\, particularly with the launch of the Fifth Round of FATF Mutual Evaluations and the updated Recommendation 1 requirements. Practical recommendations and best practices will be shared\, and participants will be encouraged to engage by sharing their experiences and insights. \n10:40 – 11:00 | Audience Q&A and Closing Remarks \nThe webinar will conclude with a Q&A session\, allowing participants to ask questions and seek further clarification on the topics discussed. Closing remarks will summarize the key points covered during the event. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nDr Noémi També – RUSI Associate Fellow \nDr Noémi També is an independent financial crime consultant\, trainer\, researcher and published author with 20 years professional experience across the academic\, public and private sector. Her academic research interests are risk assessment\, crypto risk\, risk appetite and developing a methodology to measure the effectiveness of the global AML framework. She is the author of ‘Deconstructing Money Laundering Risk\, De-risking\, the Risk-based Approach and Risk Communication’ (Springer\, 2022). \nNoémi has a wide international experience spanning the UK\, Luxembourg\, Estonia and Mexico\, with a particular focus on Financial Intelligence Units and private banking. She has managed high-profile investigations focused on AML\, and delivered projects for compliance control environment\, processes improvements\, remediation\, and reputational risks management. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nChristos Christou– Lulu Financial Holdings \nChristos is a seasoned Chief Compliance Officer with over 33 years of experience in banking and financial services. He holds a degree in Banking and Finance\, an MBA from the University of Liverpool\, and certifications in CAMS\, CGSS\, and CCAS from ACAMS. With two decades in banking\, he leads diverse Compliance\, RegTech\, and FinTech teams and chairs the Compliance Committees at Lulu Financial Group. Specializing in AML/CFT/CPF Compliance for Payment Services and Crypto Assets\, Christos is also skilled in Advanced Analytics and Forensics. He lectures at professional institutions and universities\, and frequently speaks at industry conferences. Christos is an active member of the UAE’s National AML/CFT Committee and contributes to the ACAMS Task Force as a subject matter expert. \n  \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFatima Alsancak\, RUSI \nFatima Alsancak is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Finance and Security at RUSI focusing on countering proliferation financing.\nPrior to joining RUSI\, Fatima worked at the Ministry of Treasury and Finance of Turkey\, including the EU and External Relations Department\, the Financial Crimes Investigation Board and finally General Directorate for Foreign Economic Relations. She has broad experience working with international stakeholders including the EU\, OECD and FATF. Additionally\, regarding AML/CFT issues\, she has worked extensively with NPO regulator body and relevant stakeholders\, conducted research and delivered training\, outreach and training assistance\, as well as taking part in international liaison on anti-financial crime measures.
URL:http://menafccg.com/event/proliferation-financing-emerging-and-current-challenges-and-assessing-risk/
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SUMMARY:RUSI Delivering key Webinar on Russia Sanctions
DESCRIPTION:As part of MENA FCCG’s outreach to enhance financial crime literacy across the MENA region and beyond\, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)\, the world’s oldest and the UK’s leading defense and security think tank\, has agreed to present a two-hour webinar on Monday\, July 8 from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM UK time on Russia sanctions. \nSpecifically\, RUSI experts will update participants on the current sanctions regimes affecting the Russian Federation\, as well as relevant – publicly reported – sanctions evasion cases involving the private sector to which participants should be alert in case they face being inadvertently involved in similar cases themselves. This section will also feature the advisories on Russia’s abuse of the global financial and trade systems published by the US\, EU and UK on key risks for financial institutions. Key topics relevant to the MENA region might include the trade in gold\, correspondent banking and the abuse of corporate structures and enablers of sanctions evasion. \nRUSI experts will also discuss the typical responses to Russia sanctions from the private sector and best practices from around the world\, including examples of enhanced KYC and due diligence processes in the context of the MENA region. Case studies will be used to engage participants\, and they will be encouraged to contribute their own experiences and share their challenges. \nClick to view the invitation letter that contains the agenda. \nClick to view presentation material
URL:http://menafccg.com/event/rusi-delivering-key-webinar-on-russia-sanctions/
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SUMMARY:Save the Date for Our Upcoming Webinar 04 October 2022: Implications of the Evolving Russia Sanctions Campaign for the MENA Region 
DESCRIPTION:The evolving multilateral sanctions campaign against Russia in response to its 2022 invasion of Ukraine has been unprecedented in its complexity\, speed\, and impact.  As this campaign continues to expand and evolve\, financial institutions\, other vulnerable industries\, and jurisdictional authorities around the world are grappling to understand sanctions against Russia and meet elevated compliance and risk management expectations\, protect their reputations\, and safeguard collective security. \nWhat do these developments mean for our MENA region and our financial institutions? \nK2 Integrity is at the forefront of efforts to assist financial institutions and countries around the world understand and meet evolving expectations from authorities\, correspondents\, suppliers\, and global markets subject to those jurisdictions sanctioning Russia’s war against Ukraine.  As a key part of these efforts\, K2 Integrity has partnered with the United States Department of State to engage public and private sector stakeholders in multiple countries through an ongoing global outreach\, training\, and certification program. \nWe are excited to bring K2 Integrity’s experience and expertise on these important\, challenging\, and timely issues to our MENA Financial Crime Compliance Group and Union of Arab Banks Membership.  We invite you to attend a one-hour webinar where K2 Integrity’s globally recognized experts will explain what these issues mean for financial institutions across the MENA region.  In particular\, K2 Integrity’s panel of experts will provide an overview of the following key topics: \n\nThe types of sanctions the United States (U.S.)\, European Union (EU)\, the United Kingdom (UK)\, and other authorities are imposing against Russia—and why\nThe extraterritorial application and expansive jurisdictional reach of U.S.\, EU\, and other sanctions authorities\nHow jurisdictional authorities\, financial institutions\, and other private sector and non-profit sector organizations are implementing\, overseeing\, and enforcing these sanctions—and the challenges they are encountering in doing so\nThe specific ways in which sanctioned Russian entities typically attempt to evade sanctions or avoid prohibitions on specified activities—and specific strategies to mitigate sanctions evasion\nHow MENA financial institutions and countries can protect critical financial and economic relationships with the United States and the multilateral coalition of countries sanctioning Russia’s war against Ukraine\n\nCome join this important session with K2 Integrity expert panelists Chip Poncy\, Global Head of Financial Integrity\, Mariano Federici\, Senior Managing Director\, and Katya Hazard\, Associate Managing Director and Head of Sanctions – moderated by Chahdan Jebeyli\, Group Head Legal & Compliance\, Bank Audi\, Lebanon. \nPanelists\n\n\n \nChip Poncy\nK2 Integrity Global Head of Financial Integrity \n+1 202 558 0960\ncponcy@k2integrity.com \n\n\n \nMariano Federici\nK2 Integrity Senior Managing Director \n+1 202 558 0960\nmfederici@k2integrity.com \n\n\n \nKatya Hazard\nK2 Integrity Associate Managing Director and Head of Sanctions \n+1 202 689 4161\nekhazard@k2integrity.com
URL:http://menafccg.com/event/webinar-invitation-implications-evolving-russia-sanctions-mena-region/
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SUMMARY:Threat Finance Typologies and Sanctions Webinar
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe MENA Financial Crime Compliance Group (FCCG) in cooperation with Thomson Reuters are leading a live complimentary webinar “Threat Finance Typologies and Sanctions” on Thursday 2 August at 3:30 PM GST (UAE) that includes: \n\nExpert insight into past\, current and future terrorist financing trends.\nLatest updates around global sanctions related to terrorist financing.\nExamples of best practice for managing terrorist financing risk for your institution\n\n  \nSpeakers: \n\nMr. David Shepherd (Moderator) MENA FCCG Executive Secretary\, and Head of Market Development Risk MENA\, Thomson Reuters.\nMr. Ghaith Zubi\, Expert ISIL / Al-Qaida / Taliban Monitoring Team\, United Nations Security Council.\nMr. Jesse Spiro\, Global Head of Threat Finance & Emerging Risks\, Thomson Reuters\n\n  \nREGISTER \n 
URL:http://menafccg.com/event/threat-finance-typologies-sanctions/
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