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Quality control in an artisan jewellery studio, South Africa
From the art of making a compelling sales pitch to a sign of quality in some of the world’s most desirable objects, the value of clarity should not be underestimated.
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25 April, 2022
The Case for Clarity – the importance of verified company information
Those of you investing in the emerging markets of Africa or the Middle East will likely be looking for clarity on some of the mechanisms and levers for growing your commercial interests in these regions– one of which is...
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3 March, 2022
Source of wealth indicators in Africa and the wider Middle East
One of the areas where compliance teams can struggle is to establish and verify the source of wealth of an individual. Even FATF regulations and EU AML directives acknowledge the difficulty of the exercise, calling for a...
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19 April, 2021
Over-Stated? The prevalence of State ownership in the MENA region
The rise of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) in the Gulf and the wider MENA region has drawn attention to the significant role that governments play in regional economies via State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs). The reasons for this tap...
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19 May, 2020
LEIs and their value to regulatory compliance
Avid followers of the GLEIF website will have observed that the regulatory net is slowly but surely tightening on entities’ use of a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) to settle cross-border financial transactions, to register...
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5 April, 2018
It's the sources, stupid
As some of you will have noticed, this year is Diligencia’s tenth anniversary and inNouri’s post about the early days of the companyhe set out one of the guiding principles of how we compile our company information, namely only...