Two Day Anti-Money Laundering Training Course led by Gower author Doug Hopton

The 2013 dates have been released for a Mastering Anti-Money Laundering Training Course.  The first two day course will be running on 16-17 May 2013 in London.

Some of the topic areas covered:
Introduction to Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing ~ Role of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) ~ EU Directives ~ The US and its Effect Internationally ~ UK Legal and Regulatory Requirements ~ Customer Due Diligence ~ Ongoing Monitoring ~ Record Keeping ~ Suspicions and Reporting ~ Money Laundering Reporting Officer ~ Senior Management Responsibility ~ Training and Awareness ~ Sanctions ~ Interrelationship Between Financial Crime/Fraud And Money Laundering

If you would like to know more, you can download the Mastering Anti-Money Laundering brochure, or ring to speak to one of our consultants on +44 (0)20 7017 7190.

This course has an impressive agenda which you will find on the course website.  The course leader is a Gower author Doug Hopton who is a Consultant and Trainer on money laundering and financial crime prevention.  Before establishing his company in 2003, he was with Barclays Bank for over 37 years for many of which he was Head of Group Fraud and Money Laundering Prevention.  All of his years of knowledge will be condensed into your two days training.

Information about Doug’s book Money Laundering including a PDF of the whole of chapter one to read at your leisure can be found on our website.

Expert author presents at Man-Made Catastrophes

Alan Waring, author of Gower’s forthcoming book Corporate Risk and Governance, is giving a keynote paper focussed on the theme and topics within his book at a One Day Workshop on Man-Made Catastrophes, in Cyprus, on Wednesday 30 January 2013.

The event is for Academics and Researchers, Policy Makers, Enforcement Agencies and Safety & Risk Professionals, who all take part in the day.

For more information about this workshop, visit http://www.euc.ac.cy/easyconsole.cfm/id/2078

Alan’s book Corporate Risk and Governance will be published in May 2013.

Understanding just where risk management is going

Matthew Leitch (author of Intelligent Internal Control and Risk Management) is running the workshop ‘Essentials of Embedding Enterprise Risk Management’ at the IBC 2013 Risk Management Congress. The programme for the Congress provides a really good sense of the current emerging themes within risk management with papers on risk appetite, risk and strategy, measuring risk, tail risk, fraud and cyber risk. I find it paticularly encouraging to see that Gower have the ground covered with our titles: A Short Guide to Risk Appetite (Hillson and Murray-Webster), Risk Strategies (Coleman), Estimating Risk (Garlick), Countering Catastrophic Loss (Ivantsov), A Short Guide to Fraud Risk (Iyer and Samociuk) and Demystifying Communications Risk (Johnson).

     

The 30th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime

The 30th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime is now in full swing, taking place at Jesus College, Cambridge, UK, from Sunday 2nd September through to Sunday 9th September 2012.

Gower are attending on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th to launch Threat Finance, the new book by Dr Shima D. Keene. If you are attending the symposium, please do pop by the stand and say hello to Michelle Spencer and Anton Clark.

Meet Gower and Ashgate at the Academy of Management Annual Conference

AOM , Boston, Massachusetts, August 3-7.

The 2012 programme theme is The Informal Economy and you will find us at stand number 125 in the Publisher exhibition hall. Commissioning Editor Martin West will be in attendance, he will be happy to chat about our books, your proposals, and your ideas for new subjects…

Eric Bolland, one of the editors of Solutions and others of his author team from Midway College will sign copies of their book; Jonathan Smith (author of Misleadership) is having a paper he co-wrote presented; and Guler Aras, the editor of our CSR series will be there if you wish to discuss a proposal for the series.

We are as usual sponsoring the PTC Awards ceremony.

The great and the good take on the scourge of economic crime

The list of contributors to the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime (Cambridge, UK, 2nd to 9th September 2012) is a rollcall of world leaders in law enforcement; names such as Cyrus Vance, Ros Wright, Masayuki Yoshida, Professor Fletcher Baldwin … the list is endless. There are several Gower authors contributing too: Professor Mike Levi, Dr Shima Keene and Mark Johnson. This is a heavy-weight event that runs over a week and tackles all of the hot-button issues: money laundering, state and corporate corruption, compliance, technology, identity and privacy. Mike Levi is contributor to Fraud: the Counter Fraud Practitioner’s Handbook; Shima Keene is author of Threat Finance: Disconnecting the Lifeline of Organised Crime and Terrorism and Mark Johnson is author of the forthcoming titles: Demystifying Communications Risk: A Guide to Revenue Risk Management in the Communications Sector and Cyber Crime, Security and Digital Intelligence: Vulnerabilities, Risks, Threat Actors and Controls in the Information Age.

You will find Gower there on 5th and 6th so do come along and browse the books we will have on display.

The biggest misconceptions about fraud

I came across a list of misconceptions about fraud in Mike Comer’s seminal 1998 book Corporate Fraud. Right up there at the top of the list were the two misconceptions that (a) the police detect fraud and (b) regulators prevent fraud. 14 years after this book was published, the current LIBOR scandal and the latest pharmaceutical industry scandal seem to suggest that these misconceptions are as current as when the book first highlighted them. Interestingly, the fourth misconception in his list was ‘Catastrophic frauds are rare’. Once again, Mike was bang on the money! Mike Comer is author of a number of Gower titles on fraud.
     

It’s Not Just Children Who Need Help When Comes to Social Media Risk

Mark Johnson has just released the second of his free A-Z Guides to Risk in the Modern World. This first was The A-Z of Safe Children Online. This new title is The A-Z of Safe Social Media and is aimed very much at adult users. You can download both guides free of charge from The Risk Management Group website and are free to share them with employees, clients or other contacts. Mark Johnson is author of the forthcoming Demystifying Communications Risk and Cyber Security, Crime and Digital Intelligence.

Fraud and corruption summer school.

Sadly not a school for producing lots of little Terry Thomas look alikes (for those with fond memories of classic British cinema) but, actually from a business perspective, something even better; an intense two-day  training and development event facilitated by three of today’s most able and most experienced anti-fraud specialists: Alan McDonagh, Nigel Iyer and Veronica Morino, between them responsible for a great collection of practical fraud books: Fraud and Corruption, A Short Guide to Fraud Risk, and The Anatomy of Fraud and Corruption.
    

Free Webinar: Delivering strategic advantage through integrated risk management

David Hillson shows how two simple extensions to the standard risk process can bridge the gap between tactics and strategy, ensuring that risk management delivers benefits to the wider organisation. This free Webinar was recorded for the PMI International Development Community of Practice (PMI ID CoP) in March 2012.

View the Webinar here.

David has published an array of books with Gower Publishing, focussing on risk, a full of list of titles can be found here www.gowerpublishing.com/risk-attitude.