Financial Crime and the Impact in the post Covid order

Financial crime is like water.  As defences go up it relentlessly seeks out weaknesses and takes the easiest path.  In a rapidly evolving environment, protecting against financial and reputational risk becomes an infinite challenge with finite resources.

REASONS TO ATTEND

✅Find out how to protect your business and your reputation from the rapidly changing threats of financial crime in the post Covid-19 world

✅Discover how to adequately plan your investigations and how to efficiently deter financial crime 

✅Improve the efficiency and speed of your compliance and financial crime identification processes

✅Enhance your organisation’s strategic decision making within the risk and compliance function

✅ Increase the accuracy of the Board and the regulatory reporting

About the Speaker:

Michael McNeir is the CEO of FORUM Financial Advisory & Training Solutions SRL based in Bucharest, Romania. where his business focuses on various Financial Advisory matters according to the client's pain points,  Investigations/ Background Intelligence Checks and training in Financial crime such as Criminal & Terrorism financing, fraud, asset recovery and dirty money and the links to Art and the London Property Market. FORUM Financial Advisory & Training Solutions SRL is also working in collaboration with the prestigious Romanian boutique lawyers Enache, Pirtea and Associates and Lovering & Partners here in Bucharest and KYC Global Technologies from the United Kingdom. Michael has a Diploma with merit in Money Laundering and has written two papers on Money Laundering and the Art world for the Transatlantic Cultural Property Crime Symposium based in the UK and US. Michael completed a podcast for Transparency International on Money Laundering and Art which was aired on 4th June 2020 and in 2020 and 2021 Michael was a guest speaker for four live interviews on Fraud in today’s COVID19 world, Criminal Confiscation of assets, Asset Recovery and Cultural Crime with Enache Pirtea and associatii  and experts in their fields. Michael has conducted many presentations on various aspects of Financial Crime including Money Laundering linked to private education at the 35th International Symposium on Economic Crime at the University of Cambridge, Fraud at the London Law firm Howard Kennedy and at other UK conferences. Michael has given presentations at the 2017 & 2018 Montenegrin National conferences on Bribery & Corruption in Podgorica advising Government ministers as well as here in Bucharest at the 2020 GOVNET conference on white collar crime, at a British Romanian Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting panel on business trends in 2020 and a co presenter in a webinar dealing with the 'The most effective way in combating money laundering in the post covid world'. In April 2021 Michael was involved with the National Whistleblowing Centre in the United States in a conference about promoting the forthcoming Whistleblowing Legislation in the European Union and ensuring best practice.

Michael is heavily involved in providing training for the Law Department of the Bucharest Academy of Social Economics as well as for Romanian and International businesses here in Romania on aspects of Criminal & Terrorism Financing and other areas of financial crime as required by current Romanian and International legislation.

Previously, Michael was a Detective and Financial Investigator with the Metropolitan Police New Scotland Yard in the Homicide & Serious Crime Command investigating high profile homicide investigations, where Michael conducted Financial Investigations and Financial profiling to assist in securing convictions for Homicide. Michael later transferred to the Organised Crime Unit and to the Financial Asset Confiscation and Enforcement unit seizing various assets from convicted criminals both in the UK and globally so their confiscation orders were enforced. Michael has worked with many Embassies but especially the US Embassy, Romanian and Republic of Ireland Embassies in ensuring assets were seized and confiscated.