Webinar on Beneficial Ownership Transparency of Legal Persons

A panel of experts with a global and domestic focus on enhancing beneficial ownership transparency will discuss FATF's recent revision to Recommendation 24 on beneficial ownership of legal persons, which aims to help stop criminals from hiding their illicit activities and dirty money behind secret company structures.  

The panel includes experts who helped shape the FATF work in this area and will focus on the following topics:

• New FATF obligations on beneficial ownership (BO) transparency - objectives and rationale;
• National experiences, challenges, and lessons-learnt in conducting collecting BO information and developing appropriate mitigation strategies; and
• Role of private sector – what can be done further to enhance adequacy, accuracy and timeliness of BO information

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Panellists

Chiara BACCI

Policy Officer

European Commission

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Prof. Michael LEVI

Professor of Criminology

Cardiff University

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Isabelle SCHERF

Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance

Fidelity International

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‍Emile VAN DER DOES DE WILLEBOIS

Global Lead for Financial Market Integrity, Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation

World Bank

Moderator

Tom NEYLAN

Head of Risk and Policy Unit

Secretariat of the Financial Action Task Force

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