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We highlight articles and topics about financial institutions and industries which help identify potential emerging risks, key institutional and industry weaknesses, and areas where businesses may want to consider enhancing training programs, pursuing certification for employees, or looking toward recognition through accreditation.
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2025 Caribbean Medical School Rankings
The National Association of Qualified Financiers (NAQF) was recently asked to rank the medical schools in the Caribbean based on public information available. Through this analysis in 2025, we gained a tremendous amount of knowledge and understanding which is shared within this article.
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Applying Dungeons & Dragons to Business Continuity
Consider ways to create compelling scenarios that challenge players (staff) to adapt to ever-changing circumstances, support the team’s goals (potentially to the detriment of individual players), and make difficult decisions without complete information in uncertain environments.
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Laundering Money Through Marine Transactions
The best investigators catch criminals by thinking like one. While not an exhaustive list, we have provided a list of examples to highlight cases of how a marine transaction might be used to launder money or conceal illicit activity.
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Weary, Afraid, and Tired: Our Relationship with AI
From students using ChatGPT to concerns of an emerging AI stock bubble to a computerized voice greeting you to take your order at Taco Bell, we can’t seem to get away from artificial intelligence (AI). Engineers grow weary of unrealistic expectations, consumers fondly remember when they could reach an actual human being, and business owners and employees feel left behind if their models aren’t delivering results.
We shouldn’t fear or be disillusioned by something we don’t fully understand. To that end, this article helps to understand and reset expectations around AI’s capabilities and limitations.
The Tangled Web We’ve Weaved in Hiring Automation
The effort of companies to attract the best candidates in the most economical way possible has had the unforeseen consequence of making the hiring and recruiting process excruciatingly inefficient for both HR departments and prospective candidates. While each step to hiring expediency and automation made sense, they also created new challenges that uncovered significant fundamental weaknesses in the system and ultimately to sub-optimal hiring decisions overall. Learn about these challenges and opportunities for both employers and prospective candidates to improve the likelihood of success in finding a good match.
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