Category: Asset Location and Due Diligence

How To Financially Weather a Divorce in Midlife (or Later)

July 14, 2021

Due Diligence is required on Charities, Foundations and NGOs. IFC Review.

October 12, 2020

FinTech Article in IFC Review

August 11, 2020

The Sins of Ann Twomey

September 21, 2016

Business Environment

June 1, 2015

Color of Information

May 1, 2015

Carbon Credit Due Diligence

February 1, 2015

Banks Required To Rely Less on Ratings Agencies

January 1, 2015

Due Diligence Failures

December 1, 2014

The Ultimate Risk

November 1, 2014

Risks In Recovery Actions

October 1, 2014

Crowd Funding

September 1, 2014

BNP Paribas, The Success of Due Diligence And The Failure Of Management

August 1, 2014

Locating Yachts

July 1, 2014

Wisdom of Crowds

June 1, 2014

Projections

May 1, 2014

NGO’s and Charities

April 1, 2014

Web Domains as Property

March 1, 2014

Authority to Bind

February 1, 2014

Market Tells

December 1, 2013

PEPs

November 1, 2013

Put down the Checklist and get thinking again…

October 1, 2013

NYSE Listing Exposes Foreign Firms to Liability For Corrupt Practices

September 1, 2013

Due Diligence by Design

August 2, 2013

Due Diligence Fails

July 2, 2013

Do We Need More Do Diligence?

May 31, 2013

The Last Remake of Due Diligence

May 1, 2013

Due Diligence, Standards and The Law

April 1, 2013

Brazilian LTN Bonds

March 1, 2013

A Question Of Due Diligence

February 1, 2013

USA 1934 Series Bonds

January 1, 2013

Chinese CPAs, Audit Failures

December 16, 2012

Conflict of Interest

November 1, 2012

Beneficial Ownership

October 1, 2012

A Second Passport Could Save Your Life

September 1, 2012

Preventing Mailing Frauds, Learn to Read a USPS 3602

August 1, 2012

Define Due Diligence

July 1, 2012

Zombies Debtors

June 1, 2012

The Cloud is DOA.

May 1, 2012

Can Fraud and Corruption be Stopped?

April 25, 2012

The Business Meal

April 1, 2012

Can Fraud and Corruption be Stopped?

March 1, 2012

Mining The Meaning From Data

February 1, 2012

Compliance Failures Promote Fraud and Blackmail

January 1, 2012

Charitable Organizations and Accountability

December 1, 2011

International Domestication of Judgments

November 1, 2011

Another Internet-Investigator

October 1, 2011

Arrogant and Ignorant.

September 1, 2011

Madoff victims Common Law Fraud Recovery from Banks is Barred

August 1, 2011

How To Make Fake Gold

July 1, 2011

Credential Migration

June 1, 2011

Risk and Loss Aversion

May 1, 2011

Due Diligence is now a Credentialed Profession

April 1, 2011

DuPont Dope Slapped

March 1, 2011

Words vs. Deeds

February 1, 2011

Outlook for 2011

January 1, 2011

The Right Question.

December 1, 2010

The Cold Case

November 1, 2010

AntiCorruption Professionals

October 1, 2010

Policy-Manual Time Bombs

September 1, 2010

Bonds of Internal Sovereignty

August 1, 2010

A Horse story…

July 1, 2010

OFAC compliance issues

March 1, 2010

What the meaning of “is” is

November 1, 2009

Organized crime

June 1, 2009

Checks

May 1, 2009

Financial Plus

April 1, 2009

AML outside examinations

March 1, 2009

Seek and ye shall find

February 1, 2009

Avoiding the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC debacle

January 1, 2009

AML implementation issues

August 1, 2008

Who’s lying? Follow the money!

July 1, 2008

Virtue is its own reward…

June 1, 2008

What’s the rush, pal?

May 1, 2008

Interpreting resumes

April 1, 2008

More unintended consequences

March 1, 2008

Credit rating agencies

February 1, 2008

October 2002 – 30 September 2004

January 1, 2008

Check fraud: When are you responsible?

December 1, 2007

ACH phone in fraud

November 1, 2007

Watching TJX

October 1, 2007

Backing Up Data

September 1, 2007

Information Examination

August 1, 2007

Electronic voting machines redeux

July 1, 2007

Fostering corruption. Or not.

June 1, 2007

Death by ant

May 1, 2007

Whom do you trust?

April 1, 2007

How can I help you?

March 1, 2007

Records retention policy

February 1, 2007

Choosing electronic voting machines

January 1, 2007

We own what?

December 1, 2006

Other ways of getting information

November 1, 2006

Cops moonlighting as investigators

October 1, 2006

SPECIAL REPORT Debt Collection from Small and Medium Judgments

September 1, 2006

Breaking trust, breaking trusts

August 1, 2006

Financing asset location

July 1, 2006

Change through participation

June 1, 2006

Gaming the system using customer complaints

May 1, 2006

Polygraphy

April 1, 2006

ACH Debits

March 1, 2006

Cashing in on the glass ceiling

February 1, 2006

Customer satisfaction

January 1, 2006

Who are these people, and why are we giving them our money?

December 1, 2005

The new bankruptcy laws

November 1, 2005

Be Prepared

October 1, 2005

You don’t say…

September 1, 2005

Keeping the small investor off the net

August 1, 2005

Yea, fraud!!!

July 1, 2005

“You can’t cheat an honest man…”

June 1, 2005

Checking sources on what you say and read

May 1, 2005

D&O lawsuits as a tool

April 1, 2005

Learning from the Oil for Food program and the Development Fund for Iraq

March 1, 2005

Western style v. Chinese style

February 1, 2005

Arbitraging wage rates

January 1, 2005

Product Recalls

December 1, 2004

Do Christians suffer more from leprosy than do Muslims and Jews?

November 1, 2004

The Social Security Privacy and Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2004

October 1, 2004

Avoiding social unrest in new oil producers

September 1, 2004

Trading identity theft for fraud

August 1, 2004

Background checks of the unseen

July 1, 2004

What companies can learn from Abu Ghraib

June 1, 2004

New regulations regarding internal controls

May 1, 2004

Faith and fraud

April 1, 2004

Why we may not be able to talk to you after you hire us

March 1, 2004

Small frauds

February 1, 2004

Fraudsters and your ideal best friend

January 1, 2004

Fleecing the foreigners

December 1, 2003

Due diligence for profit in private banks and trusts

November 1, 2003

You can fool some of the people all of the time, which is enough to make a very good living…

October 1, 2003

Picking up the pieces

September 1, 2003

Property ownership by the non-rich in developing countries

August 1, 2003

The implications of hiring and firing

July 1, 2003

Why it is hard to sue big companies and win

June 1, 2003

Using cultural anthropologists in business deals

May 1, 2003

Investment issues: Funding illegal acts

April 1, 2003

Policy evaluation

March 1, 2003

Scholarship and journalism

February 1, 2003

Why our feet get muddy exercising financial due diligence

January 1, 2003

Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations: Our comments!

December 1, 2002

Assessing know-your-customer vulnerability

November 1, 2002

Why you don’t need to learn Chinese any more than you needed to learn Russian

October 1, 2002

Good name, bad family

September 1, 2002

Why we sometimes recommend against insurance

August 1, 2002

Beware of outgoing mail

July 1, 2002

Terrorism and insurance

June 1, 2002

Could Enron have been prevented?

May 1, 2002

Anthrax or flu: Against which should you protect?

April 1, 2002

On not punishing those who make reasonable decisions that turn out to be wrong

March 1, 2002

Cooperative marketing fraud

February 1, 2002

The press and the police

January 1, 2002

Workplace violence is a serious problem

December 1, 2001

Where best to invest your scarce protective dollars

November 1, 2001

Online banking

October 1, 2001

Crisis management audits/disaster recovery audits

September 1, 2001

Residential and small-commercial construction

August 1, 2001

The new Euro: A counterfeiter’s dream

July 1, 2001

Obligations to women

June 1, 2001

CYA?

May 1, 2001

Giving away data

April 1, 2001

Will former employers assert rights?

March 1, 2001

Follow-up background checks

February 1, 2001

Environmental due diligence

January 1, 2001

Art

December 1, 2000

Notes on saving money

November 1, 2000

Business entities

October 1, 2000

Negative Information on Background Checks

September 1, 2000

The expanding definition of due diligence

August 1, 2000

Decision-making in uncertainty

July 1, 2000

Encouraging theft, fraud, and violence

June 1, 2000

A fool and his money are soon popular

May 1, 2000

Reputational risk

April 1, 2000

Location of hidden assets in divorce proceedings

March 1, 2000

Criminals do it…

February 1, 2000

Strategic partner search: Central Europe

January 1, 2000

Slumlords —How they make a buck

December 1, 1999

Background Checks on doctors

October 1, 1999

Checklists: Are they all they are supposed to be?

September 1, 1999

Some good / bad examples?

August 1, 1999

Letter to the Editor

July 1, 1999

What does it cost?

June 1, 1999

Background check, why, and to what extent?

May 1, 1999

Using reporters

April 1, 1999

Canadian SIN numbers

March 1, 1999

Investing in China? Watch your assets

February 1, 1999

YBM Stock and cheap prevention

January 1, 1999

Listen to Your Gut

December 1, 1998

A bad deal that kept getting worse

November 1, 1998