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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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15 November, 2021
Degrees of dysfunction – Free zones in the Middle East & Africa
Free zones – special economic jurisdictions which promote trade by suspending customs duties – are like Tolstoy’s description of families: while all functional free zones are alike, each dysfunctional free zone is dysfunctional...
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4 May, 2021
Harnessing the potential of data: A balancing act
Diligencia’s Patrick Lord recently made the opening remarks for a panel discussion on the title topic as part of the International Compliance Association’s Big Compliance Festival. In his introduction as reported below, Patrick...
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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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3 May, 2020
Ultimate beneficial ownership in the UAE
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has just published its assessment of the UAE’s efforts to implement anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing measures (AML/CTF)....
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4 February, 2020
Identity crisis? LEIs and their role in promoting clarity and compliance
The first step in any transaction or compliance process is to identify the entity that is your counterparty. Relying on entity names alone is too ambiguous, particularly when you consider the variables that are generated by...
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8 January, 2019
Vulnerability in the supply chain
As business models become more complex, employees more technologically empowered and cross-border partnerships becoming more the norm, the on-boarding of new suppliers and supply chains puts every organisation into a position of...
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10 December, 2018
Family offices – here today, gone tomorrow?
A startling statistic about the family wealth sector in the Gulf region, is that only 6% of family offices last more than two generations. This is especially concerning if you consider that in this region alone, they represent a...
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21 November, 2018
Understanding the Family Offices of the GCC
It is a universally acknowledged truth that no two family offices are the same, varying as they do by factors such as size, structure, outlook and investment strategies, among others....
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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...