Partnership Announcement Ingenique Solutions has inked a long-term partnership agreement with Acuris Risk Intelligence (ARI), a leading provider of Anti-Money Laundering/ Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) information.  ARI data, which covers PEPs, sanctions, and adverse media, is now available on Ingenique Solutions’ SentroWeb-Acuris AML/CFT platform.  SentroWeb-Acuris is used by professional firms (public accountants, trust and company services providers, lawyers), real estate agencies and many small and medium size companies in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong[…]

Training Seminar 2018   We held our third Anti-Money Laundering (AML) training seminar on 9 Mar 2018, and we invited more than 100 participants to “lim kopi” with CPIB (Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau)! Yes, this year we are happy to have Mr Cheot Zhi Chen, Senior Investigator of CPIB, to share with us his experiences in his line of duty when investigating corrupt practices in Singapore.  In addition, we invited Mr Alfred Chia, a veteran in the[…]

Today’s Manager Issue 1, 2018 Ingenique Solutions’ article on Today’s Manager (a quarterly senior management publication by the Singapore Institute of Management, SIM).  Read about it here. Article brief: Money Laundering (ML) and Terrorism Financing (TF) Risks Our response as a nation Preventing ML/TF

In Nov 2017, a veteran Managing Director lawyer with 15 years of experience in conveyancing work, and a Senior Marketing Director of an international real estate agent were both charged in the Singapore Courts for failing to report to the authorities a suspicious property deal in the Sentosa Cove district. The charges were under the serious criminal Section 39(1) of The Corruption, Drug Trafficking and other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act, commonly known as[…]

A veteran lawyer of 18 years’ standing was suspended in late-Sep 2017, from practice for two years and fined $100,000 for professional misconduct in a case relating to anti-money laundering (AML). In what had started out “innocuously” as an incident of breaching professional conduct rules, the case was eventually escalated into that of aiding money laundering activities, and finally deemed serious enough to be referred to the Court to mete out punishment. In sentencing, Chief[…]

  We held our second Anti-Money Laundering (AML) training seminar on 17 Feb 2017. It was well received with more than 90 participants. This year, instead of general knowledge or concepts in AML/CFT, we focus on giving the participants the tools to develop and implement good AML/CFT Internal Policies, Procedures and Controls (IPPC). We also covered the latest developments in the area of beneficial ownership, and shared with the audience some open source tools for[…]