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- Accountability
- Taking responsibility for one’s actions.
- Audit
- An official inspection of an organization’s accounts, normally performed by an independent body.
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C
- Code of Conduct
- A primary guide of corporate principles, a dedication to standards, and a set of ideals that, if infringed, will result in disciplinary action. It assists people in making daily decisions and defines a company’s goal, beliefs, and principles.
- Compliance
- Conformity with laws and regulations promulgated by an official regulating authority.
- Compliance Monitoring
- Compliance Monitoring refers to the quality assurance tests that firms use to assess whether its business operations meet regulatory requirements and internal obligations.
- Compliance Officer
- An employee who is in charge of ensuring that the organization adheres to its policies as well as external regulatory standards.
- Compliance Program
- Internal programs, processes, and policy decisions established by a corporation to ensure compliance with government rules and legislation. It is sometimes referred to as a compliance framework.
- Compliance Risk
- A threat to a company’s organizational, financial, or reputational status caused by infractions of laws, policies, regulations, codes of conduct, or corporate norms of conduct.
- Conflict of Interest
- A Conflict of Interest occurs when competing obligations, interests, motivations or actions may damage the interests of a client, investor or other stakeholder.
- Cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity refers to the systems and controls that are used to protect individuals and organisations from the risk of cyber-attack. These controls include technology-based controls as well as training staff to understand, recognise and avoid attempted cyber-attacks.
D
- Data Processing
- Data processing is defined very widely and includes any operation performed on personal data, either manually or electronically such as sorting, organising and analysing the data.
- Due Diligence
- A risk and compliance check, as well as an examination, review, or audit to verify facts and information regarding a certain subject. They are measures taken by an individual to satisfy legal requirements.
E
- Enhanced Due Diligence
- An enhanced type of customer due diligence (CDD) that must be used when the company determines that the customer is at a higher risk of money laundering. It usually necessitates the collecting of additional records or further verification processes.
- Ethical Dilemmas
- Situations that require ethical judgment calls. Often, there is more than one right answer and no win-win solution in which we get everything we want.
F
- Fraud
- Intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right.
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I
- Independence
- It is most commonly understood to mean freedom from conflicting interests – the specialized case of having the ability to make a decision or act in ways which are free from conflict between one’s personal interests and the interests of the party on whose behalf we are making the decision.
- Integrity
- The practice of adhering to strong ethical ideas and values in a constant and unwavering manner.
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M
- Morals
- Values that we attribute to a system of beliefs that help the individual define right versus wrong, good versus bad. These typically get their authority from something outside the individual—a higher being or higher authority (e.g. government, society). Moral concepts, judgments and practices may vary from one society to another.
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R
- Regulatory Standard
- A law, rule, regulation, or order governing the production, sale, reimbursement, and/ or price of any goods.
- Risk Assessment
- The process of discovering variables that may have a detrimental influence on a company’s capacity to conduct business.
- Risk Management
- Identifying and analysing potential dangers ahead of time, as well as taking preventive measures to limit such risks.
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- Whistleblower
- A person or organization that serves as a reporting party and makes a protected disclosure.
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