What you should be paying attention to in 2021:
For ease of reading, we divide predictions between highly [..]
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- 11/17/2020
Sigma Ratings Wins ‘Best Data Analysis Tool’ Award at 2020 Benzinga Global Fintech Awards
Firm Recognized for Its Revolutionary Cloud-Based Data Intelligence Platform and Customizable Entity Risk [..]
COVID-19’s rise has created significant shocks to the global financial and economic landscape. On April 9, [..]
The co-authored report titled “Governance Risk for Banks: Drawing on Experience and External Expertise to [..]
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- 01/15/2021
Fire & Ice
This week, the outgoing U.S. administration has continued its “aggressive use of sanctions” with a flurry of [..]
Sigma expands Address Risk coverage, releases new matching algorithm and improves search speed by 5x
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- 03/06/2020
Kabul via Khartoum
This week, as the Afghan peace deal went into effect, which includes the potential removal of economic [..]
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- 12/18/2020
When The Feds Come Knocking
This week, media reports alleged that both the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI were investigating Danske [..]
Sigma asked executives at asset management firms and large financial institutions how they make investment [..]
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- 07/24/2020
From Macro to Micro
This week, global firms find themselves in the crosshairs of increasing geopolitical tensions between the [..]
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- 01/22/2021
Rome Wasn't Built In A Day
This week, as the United States’ Senate held the confirmation hearings on presidential nominations, Janet [..]
- White papers
- 08/07/2020
Take the Drama Out of Periodic Reviews With Perpetual Relationship Monitoring
The traditional approach to client reviews for KYC and AML purposes has been to invest in teams of people who [..]
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- 09/25/2020
Embracing A New Era of Transparency
The leak and subsequent investigation of the FinCEN Files hit the financial services industry hard this past [..]
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- 11/13/2020
More With Less
Sigma Ratings is thrilled to have been named the Best Data Analysis Tool at the 6th Annual Benzinga Global [..]
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- 09/21/2020
The FinCEN Files: Address Risk
With the release of the FinCEN Files, what was a common denominator related to an international money [..]
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- 11/06/2020
Governance Gains Ground
Over the last 8 months, the pandemic has brought significant uncertainty in global markets and in short and [..]
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- 12/11/2020
Shifting The Burden
This week, both the United States House of Representatives and Senate, through the “must-pass” annual defense [..]
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- 10/30/2020
Stronger Together!
After senior careers in the U.S. Treasury Department and in law and development finance, we founded Sigma in [..]
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- 09/04/2020
Watch Out!
This week, the WSJ reported that trade sanctions were placed on dozens of Chinese firms in the last week. [..]
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- 01/19/2021
History of Anti-Money Laundering Laws
As the Biden administration prioritizes the recently enacted Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (2020 AMLA), the [..]
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- 10/09/2020
Not So Cooperative!
This week, the Council of the European Union published its latest EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for [..]
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- 09/23/2020
FinCEN Files: SARs
Among the startling findings in the FinCEN files were details on the time it took financial institutions to [..]
- Press
- 05/29/2020
Canada's money laundering problem in the 'hundreds of millions': Financial crimes expert
This week, the United States agreed to remove Sudan from its terror blacklist on the condition that the [..]
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- 09/11/2020
PPPerpetual Fraud
This week, reports emerged that JPMorgan, in an internal memo, stated they’re investigating their own employees [..]
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- 06/20/2020
It All Came Crumbling Down
This week, the share price of Wirecard fell more than 60%, less than 2 years after its debut on the prestigious [..]
- Featured Resource
- 01/22/2021
FT Feature: Fitch invests in AI start-up to improve bank misconduct detection
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- 08/29/2020
300+ Million Pages
This week, Greece’s anti-corruption prosecutor, Eleni Touloupaki, confirmed to the OCCRP that her home was [..]
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- 08/14/2020
Get on Board
Last week, the International Journal of Finance and Economics published a study that appears to indicate that [..]
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- 07/31/2020
What's Wrong With This Picture?
Last week, the Basel Institute on Governance released its 2020 edition of the Basel AML Index. And what a [..]
- Press
- 10/29/2020
Stuart Jones Jr. explores global financial institutions’ perspectives on de-risking and the impact of de-risking on the region’s banking industry
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- 10/17/2020
Remote Controls
This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that many companies are experiencing “new risks or that existing [..]
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- 09/18/2020
The Blockchain of 2020
Early in the pandemic, the FT, in response to the UK regulator sanctioning a digital KYC process, highlighted [..]
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- 08/21/2020
It Takes Two
This week, the United States, in coordination with Panama, announced the formation of a new task force that [..]
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- 08/07/2020
Do I Really Know You?
Last week, we reported on the newly released 2020 Basel AML Index and the importance of a more dynamic [..]
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- 10/02/2020
The United Nations of (Money Laundering)
In the wake of the FinCEN Files , lawmakers and regulators around the world have reacted to the unprecedented [..]
- Press
- 04/09/2019
Stuart Jones, Jr. Presents at NYU's Volatility Conference on the Importance of Non-Credit Risk
- Press
- 10/09/2018
Former U.S. Treasury official and compliance executive Robert Werner joins Sigma Ratings
- Press
- 11/23/2020
Sigma Ratings' CEO on Building a New Rating Model for an Increasingly Complex World
- Press
- 07/23/2018
Sigma Rating’s emerging market expertise is featured in Brazil’s top newspaper Valor Econômico
- Press
- 07/30/2020
Globally Focused Asset Management Firm Rated 'A' with Positive Outlook for its Governance and Control Effectiveness
- Press
- 12/05/2019
Sigma Ratings Releases Breakthrough Features to Become the World's Most Comprehensive AI-Powered Business Risk Intelligence Platform
- Press
- 11/24/2020
Sigma Releases White Paper Highlighting the Utility of Financial Crime-Related Ratings
- Press
- 03/03/2020
Sigma's Gabrielle Haddad Presents at Innovate Finance in London on Future of Regtech
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- 07/02/2018
