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Upcoming Webinar | December 5th, 12-1PM EST

Beneficial Ownership – Dos, Don’ts, & Expert Insights

Join the Institute for Financial Integrity for a comprehensive webinar that provides firms and financial institutions with knowledge and strategies they need to ensure they comply with new beneficial ownership rules and regulations.

Congress in 2021 passed the Corporate Transparency Act, creating a new beneficial ownership information reporting requirement. The effort aims to make hiding or benefitting from ill-gotten gains through the use of anonymous shell companies and other opaque ownership structures more difficult for illicit actors. The beneficial ownership information database that will be administered by FinCEN is part of this effort.

Led by regulatory, anticorruption, and industry experts, this webinar will equip your organization with insights into the nuances of the new beneficial ownership reporting requirements, address concerns about privacy, security, and access, and equip your organization with strategies you can use to research beneficial ownership and reduce your exposure to financial crime risk.

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In recent years, financial crime, sanctions, and other illicit financing risks have expanded in scope, complexity, and significance. It is more important than ever for jurisdictional authorities and the financial institutions and vulnerable industries they oversee to implement training programs to meet elevated compliance and risk management expectations, protect their reputations, and safeguard our collective security.

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