2nd Annual Anti-Money Laundering in Financial Institutions Conference

The 2nd Annual Anti-Money Laundering in Financial Institutions Conference will be held on 12th-13th June 2008 in Barcelona.

Join this two-day five star exciting forum and have your questions answered by industry practitioners and experts on money laundering prevention. Hear the practical case studies on how they tackle day-to-day issues linked to AML. Participate actively in the interactive roundtable discussions and benefit from networking sessions with your industry peers to make this event an excellent learning opportunity.

Key topics:

* Trends and future outlook in Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
* 3rd Directive - what is implemented, what remains to be done
* The risk of not managing the risk in AML
* Risk based approach and its impact on KYC, PEPs ,UBO
* AML risk as a part of enterprise-wide risk management
* The effectiveness of AML systems
* Global vs. local approach – is there one size that fits all for a global company?
* Regulator’s panel

Key Speakers:
Zurich Financial Services, Head of Global AML, Switzerland
Société Générale, Head of Global Due Diligence, France
AXA, Anti-Money Laundering Policy Adviser, UK
Banque Federale des Banques Populaires, Head Group AML CFT Compliance, France
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Director of UK Chapter, UK
The Bank of New York Mellon, Vice President Legacy BNY Group MLRO, UK
ING Bank, Director of the Department of Operating Risk Management, Poland

For further information please contact: Sherisse Shelton - Smith (sherisse.shelton-smith@jacobfleming.com).

New RefWorks features just released!

RefWorks has just released three new features:

1. Write-N-Cite III for Windows with Offline Capabilities
This means that you can not use W-N-C without being connected to the Internet. Simply download your RefWorks database from within Write-N-Cite while online, then feel free to disconnect from the Internet.
Full Write-N-Cite functionality is available – inserting temporary citation placeholders, viewing reference information, using the citation editor – even formatting your paper in the output style you choose.
Download the new Write-N-Cite III for Windows from within your RefWorks account by selecting Tools, Write-N-Cite.

2. Write-N-Cite v2.5 for Mac
This Write-N-Cite for Mac version 2.5 works with Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac and the Leopard operating system and has the same features as the current Write-N-Cite for Mac (citation editing, two document format, etc.).
Download the new version from within your RefWorks account by selecting Tools, Write-N-Cite.

3. Attachment Feature
Now it’s even easier to store your research documents along with your references! RefWorks has made it’s attachment feature available to all users at UJ and each user receive 100 MB of default storage space each. You can attach any type of file – the only requirement is that you have the software necessary to view the attachment.
For information on how to attach files to references, see the online help section Adding References Manually or review the RefWorks Basics tutorial section Entering References Manually.

New Books!

I've emailed you all the list of the newest books I've received for each department.

Due the large amount of new books I have received in the last few weeks, I will keep them at my desk only until Friday 9 May, where after they will be shelved.

If you would like to have a look at some of the books, please let me know and I will keep them for you at my desk.

South African Reserve Bank Release of Selected Monthly Data

The following publication has been added to the - Statistical & economic info - area of the South African Reserve Bank website.
Title: Monthly Release of Selected Data
For period ending March 2008

Template on International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity

The following publication has been added to the - Statistical & economic info - area of the South African Reserve Bank website.
Template on International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity

Data in this template cover the short-term foreign currency assets of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and of the Central Government of South Africa. A wider definition was used up to December 2005.

See the Note on the redefinition of gold and other foreign reserves in the balance of payments in the South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin, December 2005, p. 56-59.

NetLibrary eBook of the month

The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means
by George Soros PublicAffairs, 2008
George Soros, the legendary financier, philanthropist and bestselling author, has written a new book on the current financial crisis that will be available as the NetLibrary eBook of the Month selection for May.
Print editions of this thought-provoking new work will not be released until May 19.

In The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means, Soros explores the origins of the current financial crisis and its implications for the future. Soros, whose breadth of experience in financial markets is unrivaled, places the current crisis in the context of decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom and bust cycles that now dominate global economic activity.
"This is the worst financial crisis since the 1930s," writes Soros in characterizing the scale of financial distress spreading across Wall Street and other financial centers around the world.

Higher Education News

Highlights of The Chronicle include:

PUBLIC RELATIONS FOR PEER REVIEW The National Institutes of Health considers changing its policies to entice more senior scholars to evaluate grant applications.

TALES OF WESTERN ADVENTURE The rigid standards of hiring and tenure are all that stand in the way of humanities professors as thriving public scholars.

PEER REVIEW: The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study gets a permanent leader ... The University of California at Irvine's engineering school hires a climate expert as its new dean ... Bruce Shepard is the new president of Western Washington University ... A new chancellor steps in at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
HACKING BACK College students learn real-life lessons in Internet security when they go up against hackers in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.
GOLD MINES OF INFORMATION Vast education databases maintained by states can yield invaluable data, say education researchers, but concerns about privacy limit their development and use.

LINKED IN WITH: Kelly Sutton, a founder of a student-run blog about improving lives through technology.
WHERE THE MONEY GOES: Students are paying a growing share of higher-education costs, but institutions are spending less money on them in the classroom, a report says.

MOUNTAINS OF BLAME: Two administrators from West Virginia University have stepped down in the wake of a transcript scandal, but the president's job seems secure.

WHAT THEY THINK: Most college financial officers expect tuition increases to continue outpacing inflation.

Times Higher Education

Clocking on Fee-paying students want more teaching contact hours for their money. But do the bald figures on how often they see their tutor tell the whole story?
Journals test software to catch cheats Academic articles will, like student essays, be checked for plagiarism. Universities across the UK monitor students' work using Turnitin, a program that assesses the originality of assignments.Now a new program based on the same technology is being developed to apply similar high-tech scrutiny to research papers.
Engaging with students’ spirituality Students’ religious convictions need not hinder the learning environment; treated respectfully and inclusively, their presence may enhance the experience for all