The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) is the world’s largest anti-fraud organisation and leading provider of anti-fraud training and education. Together with nearly 85,000 members, the ACFE is reducing business fraud worldwide and inspiring public confidence in the integrity and objectivity within the profession. Based in Austin, Texas, the ACFE was founded in 1988 by preeminent fraud expert and author, Dr. Joseph T. Wells, CFE, CPA. Dr. Wells’s insight as an accountant-turned-FBI agent led to the formation of a common body of knowledge known today as fraud examination.
The mission of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners is to reduce the incidence of fraud and white collar crime and to assist the Membership in fraud detection and deterrence.
Belgian Risk Management Association, BELRIM’s objectives are on a national level to allow risk and insurance managers to share their experiences and to discuss opportunities. To facilitate this, BELRIM invites specialists in Risk and Insurance Management on a monthly basis to the BELRIM Exchanges for its members. BELRIM organises project related work groups on various topics to inform its members about the evolution on the insurance market, risk management, the new legal provisions and to defend their point of view in the concerned fields. Besides that the BELRIM Scientific Committee encourages the development of Risk Management through its contacts with the academic world.
On an international level BELRIM is a member of and actively involved in the European Federation of Risk Management (FERMA), a platform dedicated to the exchange of information among the different national associations of more than 20 European countries. BELRIM is also a member of the International Federation of Risk and Insurance Managers Associations (IFRIMA) – New York founded in 1984 – in order to promote and defend the practice of risk management worldwide.
The many challenges for companies concerning Risk & Compliance management demands for an efficient and integrated supporting business process. CERRIX offers a modern software that enables this. GRC software from CERRIX is used by many banks, insurance, and telco companies, and effectively aligns the three-lines-of-defense and brings a standardized way of working.
CERRIX conveys risk management into the nerves of the primary business operations (1st line). With functionalities for business process management, risk management, controls testing, compliance, audit, incident management and 3rd party management, managers will get instant insights in their risk and control status. CERRIX is easy-to-use and quick-to-deploy, hence return on investment can be achieved quickly. Their best practices for companies’ risk taxonomies and control frameworks (e.g. SWIFT, ISO27001, COBIT MIFID, PCI-DSS) shortens implementation time significantly.
The pressure to tackle Financial Crime has never been greater. Deloitte is at the forefront of the fight against Financial Crime and has assisted many of the world’s leading financial institutions and corporates in developing, implementing and remediating all aspects of Financial Crime Risk Management programs, as well as investigating financial crimes. In the field of AML & Sanctions, Deloitte has one of the largest and most mature AML practices that delivers seamless and consistent services for its global clients. For instance, design, implement, enhance and test AML/Sanctions programs, including risk assessments, know your customer (KYC), technology solutions, governance, executive training, and historical AML/Sanctions look backs.
For Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Deloitte provides proactive and reactive consulting, analytics, investigation services, and remediation assistance to clients that are working to manage the risk and vulnerabilities that arise from global corruption, corporate fraud, whistleblower allegations, and other threats.
EBBEN Partners is an independent provider of services in the areas of governance and risk and compliance, with a specialisation in integrity and fraud matters. It brings auditors, accountants, consultants, legal advisors and data specialists together to address the problems a company may be facing quickly, professionally and to the point.
Its partners each have more than 20 years of experience in the relevant domains and have a hands-on involvement in their assignments. Partner involvement is also the trademark of EBBEN Partners.
Euroclear is a global provider of Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) services. Euroclear helps you to be more successful by making it easier for you to settle domestic and cross-border securities transactions and safekeep your investments. Euroclear also helps you manage the risks and exposures arising from your transactions.
The assets Euroclear holds for you are valued at €32.8 trillion. The total value of securities transactions settled for you by the Euroclear group is over €897 trillion per annum. Their multi-lingual, highly trained team of professionals based in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas are committed to providing personalised support.
Febelfin vzw/asbl (non-profit association) is the Belgian Financial Sector Federation. It tries to reconcile the interests of its members with those of the policy makers, supervisors, trade associations and pressure groups at the national and European level. Febelfin vzw/asbl defends the interests of all its members: large banks, small and medium-sized banks, niche players, providers of infrastructure, etc. It speaks on behalf of the financial sector as a whole (except for the insurance companies).
Febelfin’s mission consists of the following: defining positions held by and on behalf of its members; lobbying at the national and European level and taking part in social negotiations providing services: providing information, comment and counsel as well as training via Febelfin Academy; communicating with its members and the public at large and taking part in the debate on professional, political, social and educative matters.
FraudStoryTelling.com is a free search-engine. It has the largest assorted collection of films, documentaries and other audio and video material in relation to fraud, cybercrime, money laundering, corruption and other integrity issues. The material comes from the major media databases (such as BBC, Al Jazeera, Thomson Reuters, etc), streaming services (such as Netflix), and from the Internet other commercial materials.
FraudStoryTelling.com is a 2020 non-profit initiative of EBBEN Partners. The database is in testing phase and contains 100+ titles. It went live in 2021.
Icoinic Capital, founded in 2017, is based at Beursplein 5, the financial heart of the Netherlands,and registered at the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (“AFM”) under the AIFMD-light regime and reports to the Dutch Central Bank (“DNB”). We are a premier data-driven investment group managing a range of alternative investment funds focused on crypto-assets. Our multi-year track-record and continuous exposure in the crypto-asset investment space firmly establishes and verifies our expertise in this field.
The investment products of Icoinic Capital are structured as traditional alternative investment funds. Focusing our efforts and risk management onto managing counterparty risk, custody risk, investment risk, compliance and operational risk. Icoinic Capital specializes in crypto-asset management from the sound belief in the creation of a superior investment firm focused at providing high-performing investment strategies within this promising asset class. Combining the expertise of both crypto natives and financial experts to provide our clients with the most competitive crypto trading and investment strategies in a professional and regulatory way for our investors.
The Institute of Fraud Auditors (IFA) is the National Professional Federation of Fraud Auditors in Belgium. IFA was founded in 2001 as a non-profit association based on a public-private partnership. IFA holds a Register of professionals who are certified as a “Registered Fraud Auditor”. IFA develops best practices for professionals who are active in the domain of combating fraud in the public and private sectors. IFA regularly organises conferences and trainings on fraud related topics. IFA is also an ideal forum for networking within the anti-fraud community.
The Institute for Financial Crime (IFFC) is a platform in The Hague where public parties, businesses and knowledge institutes meet and work together on more effective ways to counter and prevent financial economic crime.
IFFC connects parties to facilitate and stimulate cooperation between them to spot trends in financial economic crime at an early stage, and to bring financial economic crime issues to the agenda of public and private institutions. It offers a knowledge intensive and trusted environment where participants can share knowledge, expand their network, map financial economic crime issues and partner with other organisations to find innovative solutions to these issues.
The Offshore Knowledge Centre, established in 2011, is a highly specialised company in the field of financial (offshore) services. Due to its small size, they are able to work quickly, expertly and effectively at a relatively low cost.
Fraud has been around for a very long time. But globalisation in the past few decades has made financial fraud a persistent, worldwide problem. Government organisations, banks, business service providers and other financial institutions are increasingly faced with the challenge of monitoring (international) legal entities and financial flows in order to prevent fraud.
Transparency International Belgium’s vision is a world in which governments, politics, economic activity, civil society and people’s daily lives are free from corruption. The values of Transparency International Belgium are transparency, responsibility, integrity, solidarity, courage, justice and democracy.
YouControl is an Ukrainian IT company which develops and provides analytical systems for compliance, market analysis, financial monitoring, business intelligence and investigations. The system of YouControl helps financial (and not only) companies prevent cases of fraud, helps to identify persons who are on sanction lists, identify their connections, monitor companies, including financial ones, manage risks, and receive data from international registries. The system is implemented in the financial sector of Eastern Europe, including usage in banks, insurance and government departments.
YouControl is developing open data services since 2014 and a same-name analytical system for analysing companies’ and individuals’ activities and has many years of successful experience in creating AML and KYC systems used by international companies. The Сompany is a member of 15 business associations, such as the European Business Association, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and many others. Furthermore, YouCOntrol is trusted by the National Bank of Ukraine,The State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine, National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP), and many other government regulators.
The modern building of the headquarters of Euroclear is conveniently located near the heart of Brussels, the capital of Europe. It also serves as a real national and international hub for business affairs. The building is the world's largest provider of settlement and related securities services for cross-border transactions involving domestic and international bonds, equities, derivatives and investment funds. Euroclear is also a proven, resilient capital market infrastructure committed to delivering risk-mitigation, automation, and efficiency at scale for its global client franchise.
The headquarters of Euroclear is located near Gare du Nord (Noord Station) in Brussels, which is near the Place Roger metro station, both of which are within walking distance. The nearest public car park is Parking Place Roger (Rogierplein).
We look forward to welcoming you at the Euroclear Headquarters in Brussels on Friday 29th of April 2022 at 11.30 am.