SKADI IMPACT PIECES
SKADI HORIZON – MAY 2022
May’s ‘Spotlight’ feature focuses on the stance US Regulators are starting to take in charging companies for misleading ESG disclosures. After the collapse of ‘stablecoin’ Terra earlier this month, the regulatory focus on Crypto has been turned up yet another notch....
SKADI HORIZON – APRIL 2022
April’s ‘Spotlight’ feature takes an in-depth look at how Crypto regulations are developing in different regions around the world. As Sanctions continue to disrupt global markets and supply chains, the ramifications on Russian ADRs and Russian Bonds are explored and...
SKADI HORIZON – MARCH 2022
As you would expect there was a large increase in Sanctions headlines during March, with additional references appearing in Money Laundering and Commodities related articles. Crypto headlines also increased as its potential use for money laundering and sanction...
SKADI HORIZON – FEBRUARY 2022
Given the tragic events unfolding in Ukraine as we go to press, it is no surprise that there was a large increase in Sanctions headlines last month. February was a record month for ESG related stories, with multiple articles raising the issue of ‘greenwashing’. This...
SKADI HORIZON – JANUARY 2022
Money Laundering dominated the headlines in January, to an extent not seen since we started The SKADI Sammendrag. Casinos under the microscope. In our Key Story this month we look at the crackdown on the casino sector in multiple jurisdictions. As anticipated in...
SKADI HORIZON – DECEMBER 2021
Regulators levied a $200m fine for employee communication monitoring failures. This is the second fine we have seen in this area in the last 3 months. We anticipate more focus on record-keeping within internal controls over the coming months. There was a spike in...
SKADI HORIZON – NOVEMBER 2021
Released every morning, the SKADI Sammendrag covers headlines to assist Compliance, Internal Audit and control teams. In this monthly research document, Horizon, we collate and analyse these 100 or so articles.
SKADI HORIZON – OCTOBER 2021
The information that we are collating daily from our Sammendrag report1 allows us to construct a dataset to look at trends within the industry from a risk and control perspective. This is the first report that we have published, and we envisage that it will be...
SKADI IMPACT PIECE – UNICREDIT – comedy of errors
In our latest SKADI Impact Piece, we look at some of the recent high-profile payment and documentation errors and consider both the reputational and financial risks associated with them. Even though finance holds itself out as being a cutting-edge, technology driven...
SKADI IMPACT PIECE – LIBOR CLOS
The third instalment in our LIBOR Series of SKADI Impact Pieces. The focus today is on the impact the LIBOR cessation will have on the Collateralised Loan Obligations (CLOs). We look at why CLOs will be particularly affected and the current fallback protocols in...