Archive for April, 2012

April 25th, 2012

Can Fraud and Corruption be Stopped?

Can Fraud and Corruption be Stopped? We must now consider if fraud can ever be eliminated: and under this head there are three points of inquiry. (1) Whether fraud can [...]

April 1st, 2012

The Business Meal

In the tech world we now live in we have forgotten a great deal about how we used to conduct our due diligence on people. Today we Google them, check [...]

April 1st, 2012

More Bogus Venezuelan Bonds

This may actually be the final story on Venezuelan Bonds – but I doubt it.  This time the story has morphed with some truly amazing schizophrenic tones. Our group was [...]

April 1st, 2012

The Most Dangerous Meeting

At times we are tasked by our charges, or by circumstances, to arrange a most dangerous meeting. These are meetings held with the wanted, the notorious, the sociopath and the [...]

April 1st, 2012

Prepare for Success and Manage Failure

by Gail Kasper, Author and Motivational Speaker There are two things many people don’t seem quite prepared for: success and failure. When failure happens, it throws a big wrench into [...]

April 1st, 2012

Texting

Over a great pizza and a nice glass (or more) of red wine we, the illustrious editors chewing and drinking our monthly stipend from the Aegis Journal came around to [...]

April 1st, 2012

Where Policies Fail

Last week, Citibank was cited for failures of its BSA Compliance Program under a cease and desist order issues by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The [...]

April 1st, 2012

A Client Review

We were approached by a man who wanted to sell automobiles and heavy equipment to Burma (Myanmar) for cash that some relative would collect.  He said – Burma (Myanmar) is [...]