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Exempt Entities There are a number of exempt entities from the BSA and AML requirements. Chief amongst these are government and quasi-government accounts. This is a surprise to many, but not to [...]

BNP Paribas, The Success of Due Diligence And The Failure Of Management I have just returned from a trip through Europe, the Middle East and Asia. As I traveled, the saga and ultimate fine with [...]

LinkedIn Premium as a Data Tool LinkedIn is an undisputed success. It is a great tool for reaching out to professionals. I would even say that if you are not on LinkedIn and participating in some [...]

A Fiber Optic Cable Was Cut It was a short trip through Northern California. During the three days my cell phone did not work and twice in two different cities the restaurant took our credit card [...]

BART and San Francisco Bay Area Ferries BART is a very good transit system with very outdated payment technology.  The machines that accept cards can only sell up to 5 transit cards.  To buy a [...]

Russian Sanctions, A Panel Discussion Link to posted discussion [...]

AirBNB.com Airbnb.com is a service dedicated to finding alternative dwelling rentals for the traveler and adventurer who does not what to spend money on a hotel or is looking for a different, [...]

Locating Yachts So, you are looking for a Yacht? For the uninitiated it can be a very difficult process, but much can be done to hunt down a Yacht, knowing its history and its possible [...]

The iPhone Hacks The iCloud Any read of Aegis has seen our comments about security and the cloud – THERE IS NO SECUTIY IN THE CLOUD. Yet again, we are confounded by another attack on cloud [...]

Cell Phone Vulnerabilities What Cell Phone OS is most vulnerable -­‐ From Phys.org (edited) Good news! Android OS has around 80% of the total market share. This is in part due to price and the [...]