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The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 have been in force since 26th June. While the SRA have said that they are taking a proportionate and pragmatic approach as firms take steps to comply with the new requirements, there is no indication of what this means in practice and is likely to be of little comfort if your firm comes under scrutiny.
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Finalised in mid-2015, the ‘Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds Regulations 2017’ was only just recently approved by parliament and commenced on the 26th June 2017. Despite being aware of it for over two years, firms have only had access to a draft version of its content since March 2017 and as such, have had a notably limited amount of time to prepare for the new regulations.
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I’ve been reading up recently on the growth of the Amazon business and was intrigued by founder Jeff Bezos’ constant refrain that Amazon is a long-term business – in fact he still describes the company as having a start-up mentality. His point is Amazon was never intended to be a get-rich-quick scheme that would yield immediate benefits but one that would develop over years (and decades) into an industry giant.
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Recruitment is a major cost for most organisations, taking into account agency and social media fees, staffing, advertising and other overheads. Sourcing candidates with the relevant experience, skill set and culture fit can be a struggle for HR and hiring managers.
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Deltek explain how to deliver cost-effective projects that are also rewarding for your financial position.
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We are deeply embedded into the age of the customer, and the key to survival is data-driven and insights-driven customer obsession. Forrester’s research shows that positive customer experience (CX) correlates to greater increases in revenue and profitability. In February 2017, Dun & Bradstreet commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate how enterprises are leveraging data and analytics to drive decisions and strategy in pursuit of customer obsession and the role the CFO plays in achieving that goal. Forrester conducted an online survey of 250 finance executives at organizations with $150 million or more in revenue to explore this topic.
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Wayne Johnson, CEO at Encompass, speaks to LPM about how firms can ensure compliance with the EU’s Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive at a reduced cost
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Pitching teams took centre stage at Briefing 5P 2016 – presenting all they’d learned about the power of pricing, projects, process, and themselves as empowered business services people
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Watch Dun & Bradstreet for a webinar led by Bruce Rogers, Chief Insights Officer of Forbes, to hear the results of our latest research on the state of enterprise analytics. We surveyed a cross-section of CEOs, CMOs, CPOs, CFOs and CAOs to understand the trends powering today’s insight-driven organisations.
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Our Outsource and prosper supplement, created in collaboration with Pulsant and Mitie Connect, is designed to help SME law firms understand the benefits of outsourced work.
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Though clients once unquestionably belonged to partners, many legal leaders want to shift ownership over to the business as a whole – which creates tension, since a partner’s value rests on his or her client following. But clients should be shared across the business, because as long as they’re ‘owned’ by partners, firms can’t find out what other services they might need.
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What can firms learn from transformation of the PwC network?
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In our first quarter hiring trends review, we highlighted the need for more senior pricing specialists as firms build out their pricing functions. The message then was to move quickly to secure talent across the board, and this is still very much the case.
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The CVAC guide gives you advice on how to use LinkedIn to improve your chances of securing the job that you deserve.
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Here Chris Labrey, Managing Director UK & Ireland for Econocom talks to Finance Monthly about the management of long term payment models and how they can play a part in the implementation of cyber security measures.
