Risk

Expert Network Service Support: Asia

Expert Network connections need to be subject to compliance oversight. We can assist by providing live support.

Ongoing Climate Training - One year on from SFC implementation deadline

Climate 101 Key Training for Managers and Analysts. Summary of course content and why firms need to training thier analysts and managers

BRMQ 2024 - Business Risk Questionnaires

Please be reminded that there is an updated BRMQ for year ends starting from 30th November 2023 with a number of new questions. Business...

Climate 101 for Managers and Analysts - New Course Launch

Launch of a new course that covers climate essentials for managers and analysts – Climate 101 for Managers and Analysts

AML Updates for regulated firms in Hong Kong

Updates to Anti-Money Laundering and Counterterrorist Financing for SFC regulated firms in Hong Kong in 2023, Summary of SFC circulars, FATF

GRC 2023 - Annual Check Up

A collection of housekeeping matters for regulated firms in Hong Kong Cognitive GRC Limited (website) is a leading provider of Governance...

Virtual Asset Regulation - Hong Kong

[Extracted from our Client Update on issues relating to the Money Laundering Reporting Officers (MLRO), Manager in Charge (MIC) for...

Quarter 3 2022 - HK MLRO Update

Introduction This quarters update was slightly delayed in anticipation of the FATF plenary in October, but we also wanted to cover the...

Operational Resilience in 2022 Holding it together

Operational Resilience, Exit Plans, Contingency, Continuity, Cybersecurity, Data Loss, Incident Response Plan

Climate Risk Management for SFC regulated asset manangers

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BRMQ 2022 - SFC Annual Review

Business Risk Management Questionnaire (“BRMQ”) for SFC regulated firms Note: Cognitive GRC provides services mainly to regulated firms...

Summer, Summary 2021 -Part 2 Deeper Dive

Some highlights from enforcement and SFC updates for Quarter 2 (originally distributed in July) We typically issue newsletter updates at...

Summer, Summary 2021 - Part 1 Topics of Interest

These are just some of things we raised in our newsletter update earlier this summer and thought that some of our wider contacts might be...

Davos 2021 - Global Risk Report - Annual Risk Self Assessment Time

Risk based compliance programmes require engagement with stakeholders every so often to make sure that they are not completely off...