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New Features to Tackle Emerging Risks

In today’s complex business environment, employee conflicts of interest have become a significant risk factor. Unchecked conflicts can lead to biased decision-making, loss of trust, and reputational damage. Since 2020,...

Do You Know Your Suppliers? Understanding the Risks and Ensuring Reliability

In today’s business environment, the relationships you maintain with your suppliers can make or break your success. Yet, many businesses overlook the critical step of thoroughly vetting their suppliers. Are...

New Legislative Amendment: Section 34A in the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act, 2004

Overview: South Africa has introduced a significant legislative amendment by inserting Section 34A into the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act, 2004. This amendment targets members of the private...

Take-aways from ACFE’s Report to the Nations

The Association of Fraud Examiners (ACFE) published their Report to the Nations was published that analysed how corporate fraud is detected and how the methods of detection impact fraud. Key...

Unveiling Conflict 360’s Latest Feature Enhancements: Revolutionising Transparency with Intelligent Insights

We are excited to share that your feedback and input have been instrumental in shaping the upcoming enhancements to Conflict 360. Our team has been hard at work, diligently expanding...

Empowering Organisations: The Significance of Continuous Lifestyle Assessments and Conflict of Interest Checks

The key features of this article are: New Legislation: South Africa is considering a new amendment, part of the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act (PRECCA), which introduces an...

Why does FRAUD go undetected and traditional methods FAIL?

Executives don’t trust new data techniques A study conducted by Deloitte Financial Advisory Services polling more than 2600 executives found that less than a third of respondents were deploying the...

Build an ethical Organisation

The challenge facing leaders to run ethical organisations is not a new one, nor is it limited to South Africa. As far back as 2800BC the first recorded case of...

The new normal, brings a new age fraudster

While businesses throughout South Africa shift more of their operations online, in a bid to become more competitive in response to the challenges of the COVID pandemic and subsequent lockdowns,...

What you should consider when wanting to detect fraud

Protecting your business from fraud and corruption is paramount, with the damage caused to your finances – and reputation – leaving long-lasting, and perhaps even irreparable, damage. Recent allegations of...

Why does fraud go undetected and traditional methods fail

In an increasingly competitive world, where more services are offered via the internet, the instances of fraud and opportunities for fraud are reported to be dramatically increasing. Under these cost...

Harness the power of POPIA to prevent fraud?

From the start of July 2020, the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) came into force in South Africa. Its objective is to ensure that personal information that is held...