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AML KYC data collection brings benefits as well as challenges

Establishing a coherent system of legal entity identifiers has been an important challenge for the swaps industry over the past two years. Now, in the face of regulatory pressure, anti-money laundering teams face the same challenge – but meeting it could bring some unexpected benefits

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As banks and financial institutions collapsed one after another in the disastrous second half of 2008, their peers – and their regulators – realised they had one thing in common: none of them had a truly clear picture of their exposure to a defaulting counterparty. Over the past two years, industry efforts towards a system of common legal entity identifiers (LEIs) for derivatives counterparties

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Emerging trends in op risk

Karen Man, partner and member of the global financial institutions leadership team at Baker McKenzie, discusses emerging op risks in the wake of the Covid‑19 pandemic, a rise in cyber attacks, concerns around conduct and culture, and the complexities of…

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