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A financial institution is an organization that provides financial services, such as banking, investment, and insurance services. In the context of human trafficking, financial institutions may play a role in identifying and disrupting trafficking activity through their ability to monitor financial transactions and detect suspicious activity. Financial institutions may be required by law to report any suspicious transactions or activity that may be related to trafficking, and may also have internal policies and procedures in place to identify and prevent trafficking-related activity. Financial institutions can also provide support for anti-trafficking efforts by donating to anti-trafficking organizations or partnering with law enforcement agencies to raise awareness and prevent trafficking.
In a speech last year announcing the release of the latest Trafficking In Persons Report, U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken cited a startling statistic: right now, nearly 25-million individuals around the world are being forced into labor or the sex trade against their will. Pause for a moment on that number: 25 million. It’s…
MANILA, Philippines – Twelve Filipinos were able to flee Myanmar’s Shwe Kokko Special Economic Zone or Yatai New City after being allegedly forced to engage in a cryptocurrency scam by Chinese mafia. The incident revealed by Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, November 22, is one of many human trafficking incidents reported in the economic hub….
[December 07, 2022] NICE Actimize, a NICE (NASDAQ: NICE) business, today announced its partnership with The Knoble, a global non-profit network of experts working to protect the vulnerable against a range of financial crimes and other fraudulent activity. Through the partnership, NICE Actimize will provide technology expertise, research support and other resources to The Knoble’s…
WASHINGTON—The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an alert today to better support financial institutions in detecting financial activity related to human smuggling along the southwest border of the United States. The alert provides trends, typologies, and red flag indicators to help financial institutions better identify and report suspicious transactions potentially related to such activity. “Illicit actors,…
HUMANITY faces a grim fate because the global ruling class refuses to depart from the capitalist status quo even as their quest to maximize profits intensifies the climate crisis and the prospects of a nuclear war. But with enough solidarity, progressives around the world can build an egalitarian, democratic, peaceful, and sustainable society. That is…
Chab Dai, a Cambodian anti-trafficking organisation, has become the latest collaborator with STOP THE TRAFFIK, sharing a database of survivor stories into our Traffik Analysis Hub. They join a growing collective of data partners all committed to preventing and eradicating trafficking through meaningful collaboration and data sharing Chab Dai, founded in Cambodia in 2005 by…
President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Managing Director of the Nigerian Incentive-based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, Aliyu Abdulhameed, over fraud allegations. It was learnt that the president removed Mr Abdulhameed on Thursday afternoon and hauled him out of office shortly thereafter, Peoples Gazette reports. Mr Abdulhameed had allegedly been siphoning money from the…
A barbaric tradition known as “Money wife” in a remote village in Cross river state called Becheve where girls as young as 10 years old are being sold into marriage has been uncovered. Editor’s note: here is another related story. A Twitter user by name Tunde Onakoya who runs a Non-Governmental Organisation running a program…
Editor’s note: PLEASE TELL YOUR PARENTS OR ELDERLY PERSONS YOU KNOW. Their savings might be at risk. Better to be safe and get educated about these types of scams. “Pig-butchering” online scams have grown from continued poverty and corruption. And they prey on our vulnerabilities. This specific type of labor trafficking essentially creates a Ponzi…
This article is reprinted from its original location at Hope for Justice‘s website. It was pulled from their RSS feed for your education. Visit Hope for Justice’s news page by clicking here. Hope for Justice is delivering training to Bank of the West’s 10,000 employees so they are equipped to identify human trafficking in-person and…
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