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KYI - Know Your Influencer
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Regulators Turn Focus on Consumer Duty and Controls at Challenger Banks
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Product Update - Sigma Expands Its Address Risk Coverage To Include Top 1,000 Shared Addresses Worldwide
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Global News Coverage
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Extended Sanctions Risk
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Sigma expands Address Risk coverage, releases new matching algorithm and improves search speed by 5x
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Embracing A New Era of Transparency
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No Representation Without Taxation
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Yale University Study Finds Companies that Exited Russia Rewarded with Outsize Stock-Market Returns
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ESG’s Next Frontier
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FT Feature: Fitch invests in AI start-up to improve bank misconduct detection
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Putting You On Notice
Corruption and money laundering go hand-in-hand.
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FinTech Week
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A More Powerful User Experience
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When The Feds Come Knocking
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The United Nations of (Money Laundering)
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The Search for an Updated Wolfsberg Questionnaire
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The Three Silos of Defense
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Sigma Ratings Wins ‘Best Data Analysis Tool’ Award at 2020 Benzinga Global Fintech Awards
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State of the Unit
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Banking in Antarctica
Mapping financial networks to the edge of the world.
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Using Soccer to Explain Country Risk Mapping
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The €6,500 billion Grand Duchy
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From the Balance Sheet to the Value Sheet
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A Digital Cold War: Dual Use & The New Frontier
Last month, the announcement of Germany’s arrest of a businessman suspected of purchasing “sophisticated [..]
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Take The Drama Out
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A Pandemic of Corruption
Last week, following weeks of investigative reporting, The Washington Post compiled their various investigations [..]
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AML Act 2020
Sigma Ratings has reviewed the history of anti-money laundering legislation in the United States and highlighted [..]
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Country Risk
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Rather Grim
It is that time of the year when Transparency International puts out its latest country ratings around the [..]
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The Culture War
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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 [..]
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Governance Gains Ground
Over the last 8 months, the pandemic has brought significant uncertainty in global markets and in short and long [..]
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On the FBI’s Radar...
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A Digital Goldmine!
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The e-New Normal
This week, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global AML/CFT watchdog founded by the G7, published its new [..]
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EU Export Control Modernization
Throughout the last few years, export controls have taken heretofore unseen prominence in news media headlines. In [..]
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Survey Says
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Norvik Banka Achieves BB+ Business Integrity Rating
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It Takes Two
This week, the United States, in coordination with Panama, announced the formation of a new task force that will [..]
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Sanctions Flex
This week, the United States, EU, UK and Canada announced coordinated sanctions against key Chinese officials for [..]
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Sigma Ratings Releases Breakthrough Features to Become the World's Most Comprehensive AI-Powered Business Risk Intelligence Platform
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Sigma's Gabrielle Haddad Presents at Innovate Finance in London on Future of Regtech
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Not So Cooperative!
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Error: This Person Does Not Exist
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Alexa Altos operates a web design firm in California, has a number of employees, [..]
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This week, the WSJ rightly highlighted that the biggest impediment to the U.S. Treasury’s plans to implement a [..]
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From "Trade War" to "Tech War" and Back Again
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72% De-Risk vs. Manage Risk
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What the experts are saying about the value of Sigma Ratings
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What Does Transparency Look Like?
Transparency Does Not Need to Be Hard
“To achieve an equitable, inclusive, and more prosperous future for all, [..]
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The Blockchain of 2020
Early in the pandemic, the FT, in response to the UK regulator sanctioning a digital KYC process, highlighted that [..]
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Do I Really Know You?
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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 surprise [..]
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This week, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) marked the 5th anniversary of the [..]
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- 03/05/2021
Too Big To Fail...Small Enough To Jail
The Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) released the ‘ACAMS Compliance [..]
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- 05/29/2018
The Data Problem
According to KPMG, 1 in 3 business leaders don’t trust the information they use to make decisions. How can you act [..]
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- 06/05/2018
Sigma Middle East Poll Follow Up
Many of you were so kind as to fill out our poll on risk in the Middle East . As you’ll see below, perception does [..]
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- 06/19/2018
Scoping LEI Data Availability
In 2014 the Financial Stability Board (FSB) set up a standardized way to label and find the legal identity of any [..]
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- 01/18/2019
Predicting ‘19…
In a few weeks, it will be the year of the pig, but I’m not so sure that its going to be that generous. Much of [..]
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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 Yellen, [..]
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- 07/02/2018
Sigma Ratings, the world's first non-credit risk ratings agency, closes $2.4 million Series Seed funding
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- 07/23/2018
Sigma Rating’s emerging market expertise is featured in Brazil’s top newspaper Valor Econômico
This week, the United States agreed to remove Sudan from its terror blacklist on the condition that the country’s [..]
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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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- 09/04/2020
Watch Out!
This week, the WSJ reported that trade sanctions were placed on dozens of Chinese firms in the last week. While [..]
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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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- 07/13/2018
Perception & Reality
During recent travel in the Middle East, we met with senior executives at leading banks, exchange houses and [..]
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- 08/13/2018
Inconvenient Truths
A New Hub for Money Laundering
Last week the Wall Street Journal highlighted a new, burgeoning money laundering [..]
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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 [..]
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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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- 07/30/2020
Globally Focused Asset Management Firm Rated 'A' with Positive Outlook for its Governance and Control Effectiveness
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- 04/09/2019
Stuart Jones, Jr. Presents at NYU's Volatility Conference on the Importance of Non-Credit Risk
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- 05/29/2020
Canada's money laundering problem in the 'hundreds of millions': Financial crimes expert
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- 10/09/2018
Former U.S. Treasury official and compliance executive Robert Werner joins Sigma Ratings
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- 06/28/2018