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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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Staying Resilient in the Wake of an Irish Goodbye
Your employee, late on Friday afternoon, abruptly informs you they’re leaving the company and starting a new position elsewhere on Monday morning. Or worse, they just stopped coming to the office and let you know when you contacted them. They didn’t talk to anyone about their plans, and now a million questions come racing into your mind all at once, everything from “why are you leaving?” to “what were your key functions?” to “who can temporarily take this employee’s place?”
Learn how to better prepare yourself and your organization through these best practices.
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.
How to Launder Money Through Marine Vessels
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.
Applying the Complexity of Dungeons & Dragons to Business Continuity Exercises
Thinking about the most recent business continuity tabletop exercises in which I’ve participated, some glaring weaknesses and themes came to mind – and that’s assuming the exercise was even scheduled (and wasn’t canceled). Consider ways to create compelling scenarios that challenge players 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.
The Agony and the Opportunity of Compliance Training
In its current construction, compliance training is operationally inefficient - it costs considerable time, energy, money, and focus, and it’s unclear whether employees are actually absorbing the training material and applying it to their current role. There are clear opportunities to use compliance training and drive employee development throughout an institution, and this article highlights best practices toward that end.
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