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Compliance in the financial services sector has never been as important as it is today. The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für...
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Germany Taps Swiss Expert To Fix Broken Watchdog Advertisement May 06, 2021 In August, Mark Branson will officially take the helm of Bafin, the German finance watchdog. The British-turned-Swiss banker is once again called to the rescue to clean up and supervise a federal agency that has become too cozy with the financial institutions it regulates. Bafin failed to foresee the collapse of the payment company Wirecard. Branson, 52, knows the banking industry inside out and has had international executive experience with UBS and Credit Suisse in Tokyo, London and Zurich. He is known for fighting...
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Wirecard inquiry: Germany's political and financial elite exposed 12 minutes to read By: Guy Chazan and Olaf Storbeck It was an innocuous question, posed shortly before midnight some nine hours into an exhausting parliamentary hearing into the Wirecard scandal. "Did you ever actually own Wirecard shares?" Cansel Kiziltepe, the Social Democrat MP, asked Ralf Bose, head of Germany's auditor watchdog Apas. His answer caused a political earthquake and brought an abrupt end to his more than 30-year career. A former partner at KPMG, Bose ran a government agency that is normally pr...
Daniel Thelesklaf (Image: LinkedIn) Swiss Crimefighter Wins U.N. Policy Role after less than a year in the job. The United Nations' Center for Policy Research named Daniel Thelesklaf its project director of FAST, which stands for Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking, it said in a statement on Monday. Thelesklaf will move to New York for the project, part of the United Nations University, later this year. The appointment comes nine months after the veteran Swiss lawyer-crimefighter abruptly left his job running the Swiss money laundering office. Thelesklaf later criticized the alpine ...