SEASON 8 · EPISODE 5 · 21:29
Regulators, statistics and benchmarking
Ray Blake & Graham Barrow · 4 December 2021
Episode notes
In this episode we look at how the FCA’s REP-CRIM report can assist firms in assessing the effectiveness of their AML controls through both trend analysis and benchmarking against their peers. And we explain how trend analysis such as this can benefit all financial institutions wherever they do business.
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