MiFID 2 and Deceptive Advertising

MiFID 2; Investor Protection and Fair Advertising Rules. Many details concerning the MiFID 2 regulation have yet to be clarified by ESMA and AFM the coming months as a part of the “Level III”…

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KYC is not a project – five points to get right

inancial institutions continue to be fined for failures to comply with AML/CFT regulations and continue to fail in remediation of these errors. See for instance this article…

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Offshore Financial Centres – Dogs May Bark But the Caravan Moves On

Tax Optimisation & Offshore Financial Centres: Dogs May Bark, But the Caravan Moves On, Part 2[1] One of the interesting aspects in the current discussion about multinational corporations and…

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The ugly truth about compliance and…..what to do about it

This article 7 ugly truths for compliance officers is not new but the observations still hold. Compliance is not a favorite topic for many in financial institutions and it’s still extremely hard ‘to…

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