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stopped people descending on the capitol for a 4th week of protest against the continued leadership of president alexander lukashenko he claims he won the august 9th election with 80 percent of the vote the opposition say the poll was rigged and they want to read from. those protesters made their way home on sunday security forces seem to take advantage of the thinning crowds pulling out people apparently at random according to witnesses and bundling them into vans. another video has emerged on social media of masked men in civilian clothes beating up people on the streets of minsk. in wall now breaking down the door of a cafe where the owner had given shelter to protesters. with imagine if everybody people started running in say to the door and then out on 15 to 20 people in black masks started to smash the glass into some people our human rights experts from the united nations say they've received hundreds of torture a she's

a torture impeaching you. this is older call kovar of the opposition coordination council sentenced to 10 days in jail she appeared in poland on saturday after she says she was forcibly taken to the border and they're pretty hard. they came to the center where i was isolated they gave me had a mask. took me out of prison they made me lie in the back seat and they drove me we from the isolation center. at the presidential palace in minsk it was tight security to protect us from the people. we won't forgive we won't forget their shouting the videos emerging out of minsk on sunday night suggests that whatever tolerance the government have for the protesters is wearing thin but could increase pressure on western powers to impose sanctions on alexander lukashenko and senior members of his administration with the way his foreign minister says in an interview that the european union's lack of action over

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you know early 2019 the head of a u.k. based palestinian lobby group made an announcement outside the rule courts of justice in london i speak on my behalf and as a fan of mine of the best anything said that p.r.c. . my bank account i've got lawyers representing moggi delsea had reached an out of

court settlement with the company he'd been battling for several years with the 15 that you always think of our banking facility i was here had claimed that the palestinian return center had been wrongly listed on a database and that this had caused them serious financial difficulty about it that we had. and i know that that is them to the committee i'm by i want to take on this secret that there is if you do i'm a misleading allegation in the world check database is now often known as ricin it's of it's current oh no. it's not secret it's one of the databases used by banks to help them comply with government financial regulation. no your customer is the term they use to identify exactly who they're dealing with and hence avoid exposure to financial crime. a from a bank where your customer is vital part of both the on boarding process at least a few other new customers and maintaining that relationship and it requires you to

mean sure that you know who that person is and that is very far and you understand the risk that brings to the bank in terms of financial crime money. databases like riff initiative world check look for and collate data for their subscribers on individuals and organizations that might pose a financial risk what they call politically exposed persons. or perhaps on names on a sanctions list or who have attracted negative media coverage. in this program. of al-jazeera arabic channel examines these databases they're part of the global regulator a framework designed to combat financial crime but how transparent are they and what impact can they have on those that appear in them. in terms of the market it is dominated by 2 main players which is dow jones and riff initiative which used to

be part of the thomson reuters organization. in my experience our travel across both extremely frequently and a great many other providers are actually. the engine of what they provide is the dow jones of the river to do lists so they power lots of other providers lists as well i think of them i think definitive is probably the greatest reach in terms of the global banks but honestly they're both pretty dominant players. but individuals and organizations have sometimes found themselves on these databases without their knowledge and they can come as a shock to discover they've been categorized as being linked with for example terrorism. an american security advisor called chris of ikari got hold of a copy of the world check database in 2016 including what he called its terrorism

blacklist. mess hell spoke to vicary and asked how he'd found the list of over 2000000 names. well i think the world check database by looking for what's known as couch d p instances it's a type of database that can be accessed through a web browser and it runs on a specific port so if something has data available on the couch he port and successful to the public internet you can browse it yet i was just lucky and found it i guess persistence pays off when you're looking for lots and lots of data every once in awhile you find some real gems and i found it downloaded because it was publicly accessible and open and available to the public most or tomorrow vickery's initial thoughts well well the very 1st big reaction i had was when i was looking through the different rows and i saw people marked as terrorists that's when i knew

oh my god this is a list that is probably not something that is normally out there and then i realized if this is a list marking people for things of that nature created this list you know so i had to look and see who created the world trade devil plan joins us he's founder also executive chairman and world that shaq. will check was founded in 2000 by a south african born businessman called david letterman. the company was registered in london and started as a risk mitigation database there was a whole host of scandals like thousands of the ninety's that caused by instance go reassessing how they managed risk and at the same time there was a significant growth drugs. program emerging so all of these things conspired the banks started to look much more closely at risk and there was the formation of the

financial action task force which is the global body responsible for providing the definition so perhaps for steering banks into how to manage those risks. the market for data grew to include agencies and institutions in every sector particularly after the september 11th attacks in new york on the world trade center in 2001 the remit of those databases widened significantly. in the pali because it forced the united states particularly to focus much more on funding of terrorism . it was an area that although had previously been legislated for in the us they probably weren't as robust as maybe here in europe where the e.u. the european union had already instituted some strict rooms the u.s. after 911 passing through the pantry intact and it's specific he caused greater

focus on the funding of terrorism as much as money laundering and organized crime search changed the landscape definitively. david led pan declined to be interviewed partly because in 2011 will check was acquired by thomson reuters as part of their governance risk and compliance unit. riffel it if well check is still registered to the same address as thomson reuters in the canary wharf business district of london . but in october 28th seen reuters announced the sale of the majority of its world check shares to the private equity group blackstone. in $28.00 c. thomson reuters some parts of the state well check so they sold 55 percent of the company to investors but thomson reuters still owns 45 percent of finishes which is the new name of the company that will check. thomson reuters is

a canadian media conglomerate but it's made several data related acquisitions. while thomson reuters as a financial service agency and it has an interest in making money out of financial services well track is a very profitable business subscriptions can run into the millions of pounds there is a lot of money to be made in the sector well check a database of millions of people and organizations around the world who are claimed to be high risk people because of some connection with terrorism or crime or because of their political position and this is a system that banks around the world use to check their customers to find out if they're doing business with somebody who could pose problems for the bank. in an online brochure written it it will check set out its objectives and listed

its different areas of activity including sanctions screening monitoring politically exposed persons and he money alone. countering the financing of terrorism and anti bribery and corruption. it said it covered 240 countries had over 400 research analysts and talked about the number of sources used and records. over the years it's grown and grown until today it has 3000000 people and organizations listed and it's owned by large companies. and is used by most of the banks around the world for a long time the content of their state space have been kept secret and it's only in the last few years thanks to the work of journalists and campaigners that we've begun to learn a little bit more about some of the issues with their state space so for example finsbury park mosque had their account closed and they eventually discovered the

listing in well check that was still connecting them with terrorism even though the mosque had no more connections with terrorism. finsbury park mosque is in northeast london and is attended by hundreds of worshippers for friday noon prayers. today it's considered a model of community relations but it attracted an adverse media and police attention in 1997 when shaikh abu hamza real mastery known for his radical views became him out. of the mosque was closed in 2003 for its perceived links to terrorism. it reopened in 2005 with a new management team supported by the muslim association of britain. the changes

at the mosque are now widely perceived as a success story but in 2014 the management was shocked to discover. the names were on will checks database as being linked to terrorism. will check was still under thomson reuters ownership at that time. of the somewhat and the whole. of the new the comma bijani one where the now the comma behave thought of them as you'd miss you'd. sort out the mess you don't know well. what the heebie 80 i mean or the unknown who most often. by the at such a comb my want to check. some of that and them was all up not buried in a bank such as me see 31 of me and the 7 monkey. of the local and then i shall reign in the that beautiful snowy is in the bank of one of the 5

they'd miss you one of them when he moved to the. back of the. i'm a thoughtful man i'm in b.b.c. in austin b.b.c. what all of a minimal fee have a mobile feel if you don't feel at all often as you call him or us if you that he can walk out. of the and most would. feel he was successful have done some dumb sort of. a lot check. peter oborne 1st broke this story for the b.b.c. . i got the b.b.c. to make a radio programme and i presented this we discovered the existence of a confidante show database it was called world check by thomson reuters at the time c s i may have one category called terrorist which is a very serious things we're very very serious you cannot deal with people who are

going to. and. and so we discovered the rest of the fence ripoff mosque was listed terrorist. from memory i think mr cause was very shocked as he should be. laws of the rang up world church we spoke to world show i had a conversation and i said that they said that we always go should correct procedures or something like that i can't remember exactly when myself came as you visit bit of a hard. game cover your billboard to check quite a fair bit of money from a nephew to be on the whole. show at the time sort of has been i thought in a a while it was such a synonym in that had all the had that was some organizations i would want to say well cannot be on the whole loaf was enough he had the arc of the income as you said after his bubbly a set of iraq a theater and that what was on him in

a hoss other than a fur that it going to figure out and the whole number of it not the how the over the when of his behaviors and the harder hit than if the who was on the who had the hustle. following the finsbury park mosque case other organizations and individuals did take legal action against the world. including margie downs zia head of the palestinian return center in london. decided to pursue a civil action against world check after his own and the center's bank accounts were both closed. the p.r.c. provides a media platform for the palestinian diaspora. in 2015 it was given consultative status at the u.n. as a non-governmental organization. the center campaigns to increase awareness of the

palestinian cause and for the human and legal rights of palestinian refugees. but will check call the center and margery dolls here in the countering terrorism funding category of its database to which mr rouzier took exception. however in january 29th teen zia's lawyers reached an out of court settlement with world checks then owners thomson reuters they agreed to remove his name from the terrorism can't agree to pay him $13000.00 u.s. dollars in damages into legal and in fact under the british legal system the judges and the courts prefer people to settle cases so to be honest with you the majority of cases like this we would expect to settle in world checks case so far we actually have settled every single case in other words there's never been a full court case the games will change because all of them they settle like they did with this one of mr my details here they normally agree that the classification

was a breach of the data protection act they pay some compensation and they offer to pay the legal costs and that's it whenever they have time on those who. have your whole. park mosque other half of the the car a mother toyotas if you're out of a word chick. or than the full breath in canada and i guess you mean. less than all americans and i would have a sufi it also not matter. can a careful behind the spirit or bar mosque was and afaik most would twice in the fianna fáil sleeve. wow that i'm never there you 1st said. in kenya and you had the ill will have been at odds. with their care it was so bad that you'd have. had me and

i would all americas allow their fear to lock up their mobile revenue in the arm or fuck off 11 s and i think you have the mass over fair fight and a lot. of fear not sorrow but i just wrote about what i did not get myself going to cost theme with the time i was having a quite how to channel well i used of the my it i love it was so wonderful to you and i have been doing your color taken home as a man on my feet about a lot of you have for 100 have clearly where in the house. you had him i said no we had was once a palestinian return center was on the list what word check tends to do is that all the directors or the senior people also get listed individually so mr mudge of those years was listed only because of his connection to the palestinian regions and. misho asked how easy it was to communicate with will check at that time it is

possible to have some e-mail communication with them but generally speaking they are not easy people to meet to talk to matt mccall nothing who what does he have trouble of you have been there not to look about or come out a little bit about. so what i'm talking about when i could just ask him. this is what's called the statement in a. and court in the case between marjorie del dia and reuters ltd who had a majority share in world check at the time. it set sound the reuters offer to settle mr l.c. is claims that damages figure and that reuters agreed to move his profile from the terrorism category of the database and pay is legal costs. reuters also agree that it would list mr l.z. as denial of any personal connection to hamas or the muslim brotherhood and that he

believed that their inclusion on the so-called terrorism list by israel was politically motivated. however the 2 parties also agreed that quote mr olds ears profile can continue to include references to his designations by the israeli minister of defense as a main operative of hamas departments in europe headquarters in europe and how mass office in europe. tomorrow i'll miss how also emailed h.s.b.c. the bank that closed the accounts of the p.r.c. in the finsbury park mosque to ask about the closure of those accounts but he never received a reply one of the common complaints against these lists is that they are the reason why people can't get access to the banking system that pose some merit but it's not entirely true because it is not the role referred to or

to decide in a binary yes no moment where the people should have access to banking their role is to provide information to the best of their ability to parent who then apply what we would call their own risk. to that information contacted riff in a tip and spoke to their head of communications but he declined the request for an interview. however in a letter to al jazeera dated the 13th of june 29th teen their legal representative said of the finsbury park mosque we're not aware of any evidence that it's bank account was closed as a consequence of the mosque inclusion on the database and the courts did not approve any such suggestion. how then looked at a completely different case. that of british former journalist peter humphrey.

humphrey run a risk advisory firm in shanghai that he and his wife were arrested and found themselves in prison in china for 2 years. after his release humphrey concluded that being listed on the world check database had led to the closure of his bank accounts in 2015 are my wife were released from china in in the middle of june 2015 so i was trying to find a new bank who would actually accept my bonnie and i went to several private banks in london but i also went to citibank in london and sat down with them and said you know this is my situation i would like to open a count so i can move my money from h.s.b.c. to new york county is very helpful bank officer was setting up an account for me and then he said he had to run some some checks on the system and all of a sudden the alarm bells were ringing on his computer red flag was popping up and

he said oh it's not letting me do this is not letting me and roll you as a customer. and i said well why don't you show it to me so he turned his computer monitor around to let me see it and there i could see a database system showing red flags on certain newspaper headlines from chinese newspapers about our case and i asked him which databases the back was using and he he mentioned while checking the maps and lexis nexis to me humphrey saw all the data bases had web links to news reports of an investigation he conducted for the pharmaceutical company glaxo smith kline. al-jazeera asked rishon it if it wished to comment on the peta humphrey case but they declined. coming up in part to the sources these databases use are all in the public domain but how reliable are they as

a means of identifying potential financial crime with all the reputational damage that can entail if a story is currently very boy voices or. associated press or other global news organizations you can reasonably except that they're taken care over the factual content within that story if its own somebodies wordpress blogs that you have to be more cautious about. expected to apply i just want to move.

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important to me is talking to people understanding what they are going through here and i just we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. i money inside and out the top stories here on al-jazeera tens of thousands have marched in belarus despite threats of retaliation from the government they say last month's election was rigged and are calling on president lukashenko to resign. by the way i'm here to express my civic stance against the shanker with the rigged elections we're treating our citizens the way he does you see them i disagree with the declared election results i support all the protestors i am for freedom and democracy i want to live in a happy and free state i will keep coming here until we retrieve our rights

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to carry out checks on customers to ensure they're only dealing with legitimate businesses and law abiding individuals. so they subscribe to databases which harvest information on companies organizations and individuals that might pose some kind of risk because of their politics or being on a sanctions list or simply by having attracted bad publicity. dow jones lexus nexus and riff in a tiff world check run such databases. but tamar elma's hell of al-jazeera arabic wanted to examine how they gather their information and what sources they use. journalist tom wills kept a copy of the 2014 world check database when it was made public in 2016. he searched for 2 organizations that had taken legal action against world check in the

u.k. the palestinian return center and the finsbury park mosque to find out what sources the database accused when listing. magic. yeah so we can see that he was listed in the terrorism category in 20 forcing. and these countries listed palestine and it says he's the director general of the palestinian return center in london. which is allegedly affiliates it's to the hamas office in europe and to the muslim brotherhood and the nasa series of mixed engines whether you've drawn this information some we've got a website crudes global m.b.a. books and another one called global m p reports and we've also got 2 websites from israel we've got the israeli government website and. organization that cools itself terrorism in file in israel but many other governments around the wilds do

not agree with israel's classification of who is a terrorist so the question is why is our london company that is providing information to banks all of its basing its information on the science of just one country. so the databases do use information published in online news articles a source's. but tomorrow misho wanted to dig a bit deeper and talk to someone with inside knowledge of a database to understand exactly how they use online sources. so he went to miami to meet kenneth regio who done some consultancy for world check any commercial database any commercial off the shelf database of high risk individuals must use open source material that means news and magazine articles that may need court cases opensource is necessary because the banking client

must be able to demonstrate on demand to regulators wire the information came from that he potentially used to make a decision about a client. british journalist peter oborne had already gone into the use of open source data in some detail this is a very serious problem with highlighting. you see we've done a lot of this. and you find organizations here's a picture story i've written about this you know websites schork used of promoting far right and is them a phobic agendas. that being being used as sources on the world check websites organizations like the us think that the gates stone institute organizations like jihad watch david horovitz freedom center these are organizations which is just can't be trusted or relied on and have

a it my view an ideological agenda in which case it's irresponsible to use organizations like that and use them as sources. using websites like these as public domain sources is problematic when they have their own political agenda the examples peter oborne used a known for their anti islamic views. so tamar examine the number of arab or muslim names listed on the world check database leaked in 2016. he found thousands of names from all over the world one of the issues that you heard with the sun with the sanctions list and with the adverse news that comes from it is that it is disproportionately targeted towards a return or is again that's because for foreign why aren't terrorists through qaeda

and the taliban i still insist that whatever you want to call it. significant popular list in a way that maybe white supremacist or i do or jewish supremacists or whatever or not. he. is an investigative journalist who's written for online news outlets and worked as an investigator for the human rights and geo reprieve as well as for the international committee of the red cross. i think the muslims are disproportionately affected by this kind of service simply because muslims are more generally the victim of accusations of board brush accusations unfounded accusations and what service like the halls is that hoover this and the kind of online. without much scrutiny about the source of the accusation i don't find any particular. unusual focus on muslims or arabs

in any of the 4 major commercial off the shelf databases a high risk individuals but as a matter of practice they're going to contain more and more. of entries are very nationals and muslim nationals because of the global war on terrorism i think what we can say is that this takes place as a risen in the post 911 climate of paranoia about terrorism and of course that is something that impacts all muslims most of all and i think what has done unfortunately is taken some of the worst lies and innuendo about muslims from the darkest corners of the internet may free packaged as reliable information and i think that's very concise. and a letter dated the 13th of june 29th teen griffin achieve world checks legal representative said in response that the suggestion that will check targets muslims

was quote offensive and wholly unsubstantiated. there is no question of well check targeting any group and to suggest otherwise would be entirely inaccurate if individuals who entities have been identified by government is being banned or in a watch list or example then this will be reported in well check. now mia should be be further questioned how much time will checks research analysts covering $240.00 countries and territories around the world would have available to collate information. when i spoke to various welsh analysts toward informa and the organization i was astonished to learn that the standards for the creation of profiles were very low let me give you an example one profile reviewer i spoke to said that they refuse 3 to 600 profiles. every single day that i would an ordinary

$10.00 to $12.00 out aisha that means you're spending less than 2 minutes reviewing a profile it's no wonder that you are unable to check the underlying source of the nation or the allegations against the person or organization you don't have the time to. refine it is lawyers responded by saying that these allegations were quote simply wrong. they bear no resemblance to the amount of time spent by well check analysts creating and reviewing records and the allegations demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding of the operation of the database and mischaracterizes the wild check research and quality assurance processes. in summary considerable patents taken by our client in ensuring the accuracy of its reports it is impossible to create records in well check in 2 minutes and all

analysts research is supplemented by both q.a. checks and east of technology to ensure high accuracy standards amen taint across the world all sorts of news media reports stories some of them do so robustly and with a great care and attention and others maybe less if a story is currently very boy voices or. associated press or other global news organizations or new york times of the washington post of the times move of whatever you can reasonably accept that they've taken care over with far too content with that story if its own somebodies wordpress blog so you have to be more cautious than. expected to or just want to bones to the. banks of the principal subscribers to databases like christianity of world check dow jones and lexis nexis but the overall market for their services is now much

bigger. i found over 300 law enforcement and intelligence agencies across the world for years on this of us i also a number of. the person or enforcement agencies including much apart from police counselors and command the national crime haven see and the city of london police and all of them to me but i had to strip chanst of all chocked he will also have various mortgage providers using us visa screening services you have they your taste charity commission screening potential beneficiary charities against the state of us and also the department for international development one of the key services financial risk assessment databases offer is what they call sanction screening. for use sanction and that means is there anywhere in the world that prevents the bank from doing business with you because there are the central

european oligarchs they are involved in terrorism they could be you could be from a country which is long since like iran or for business sanctions and that's for both you know for both terrorist activity and politically sanctions where there are all kinds of countries and organizations who for reasons of that. put out described that. as asians they don't like as terrorists so for example the united arab emirates has a habit of book describing organizations connected to the most muslim brotherhood or those that think that it's going to act into the muslim brotherhood as terrorists were not that he paid peaceful organizations and so they classified as terrorists and so on and side is arabia i believe does the same and so on and we embrace them which. claims to be

a decent country should not tolerate. or wanted to look into peter oborne point in more detail and did a search for sanctions issued specifically by arab countries. he found that in 2014 the united arab emirates had issued a list of sanctions against over 80 islamic movements and organizations around the world. one of the groups listed on world check in the countering terrorism funding category is the federation of islamic organizations in europe or the f.i.f.o. e in brussels. it's made up of 27 separate islamic organizations in different european countries. notice that this listing was made by world check immediately after the f. iow he was included on the u.e.s. list of sanctioned groups published in 2014. he asked the president of the f.i.o.s.

about the connection between the u.a.e. list and his organizations inclusion on the world check database i want to watch it move. on warmers don't. know if you are there at the have how they were muslim why they were there that are your check. you know work you know what are the lead. they were and who you know who said. that they are the most not the one who. will back them 1st of all that they will behave you have met almost all of the area almost there so the yet here we should be here and must assert one of them out among their vision that. they had and that it also no sun if i had the journey of a comet want to check. every. word 100. emma he came

in here every day if human was a set number of would have you had them call him up or anything but for the pilot you know the sniff and the sleeve and what chick. could be and based copia based. but do financial risk databases take enough responsibility for the information they provide to their clients. it is important to note that well check is designed to alert uses to possible risk and to situations where further screech need may be appropriate but this does not mean that subjects' included in wild check necessarily has a risk the point they eat understand is that any bank compliance officer using a commercially available database takes all the information with a grain of salt he needs to look at the references at the bottom and see where did the information come from the end of the day a compliance officer is going to look at the entire background of an individual not

just rely upon a. sanctions list or or negative information which appeared out of the non-democratic country in a money pothole fed or know the buoy or known design or more on the. michelle sure of coal to make real if you will you have a fit of will she would it. because it i wish she would if any of us are good davidi fume is a form of human oh sure you don't as a form i still if that's possible is a form i still journalist i've almost always of the just reported equal sickles it all could have it a big problem is a lot of problems with a dick sicko or sick not jekyll plea on of of us are going to moderate the video here is a former soldier don't judge people as most of it is or will serve a fair decision how it started they don't is this a dish up or has possibly did this possibly to get to know you stole this post is a form of show conform to the the web of the providers of this information are of

benefit are doing the most are in a way. courtroom a similar situation that some of the social media companies in our platform provide they are an aggregator of other people's news and that means they have to include waivers to say that while they take care of that what they dream of the database they are not responsible for the content that they are right because they are merely aggregating it and presenting it to the parents to make their own judgments old so they have to be careful. to assess the human impact this can have had so far relied on the 2014 world check database that chris of ikaria had found. but eventually he was able to view world checks 29000 database with the help of a world check insider who agreed to help on condition that he remain anonymous.

he found businessman politicians journalists activists and opposition leaders in different arab and islamic countries on the 29000 database. the source's world check used to list some individuals and organizations were often tabloid news websites with their own agendas a known for their anti islamic views. when they searched for several well known muslim organizations some had been included under world checks countering terrorism financing category. or then checked the listing of some of the contributors to this program. the entry for the federation of islamic organizations in europe had been updated in april 29 teams. but they f.i.o.s. was still listed in the terrorism category and the source was still the u.a.e. sanctions list. the files of marja delozier on the fence break mosque had been

changed as per their out of court settlements they've been removed from the funding terrorism list but added to the individual and organizations categories. this it not really helps the finsbury park mosque in s.f. much as we see it often than if the one has a howell if it has a more abandon called the you know it's obviously they say i'm not a let me enter here evident a better let me at the here there are a lot happening and there are me so my thing was you'd be so martin atrocities the moment when that message we somehow got what he did was he had well be some other agenda was there when we should we should stand up against these tests pick a sions we shouldn't allow foreign countries to use the power of the state to declare its political opponents terrorists and allow them to be punished in this country because they they so they don't go to baghdad as a result of a close classification by a foreign country so i really think it's

a terrible problem i think it needs to be taken up politically here to preventing this sort of how it's very severe and innocent people is the effect of these classifications. if it if will check had declined al jazeera arabic offered to appear in an interview. and when given a further opportunity by al-jazeera in 2020 they again declined. however in april 2020 their legal representatives did issue this long statement. it said that. while the check is one of many sources used by banks and other businesses to help them meet their regulator requirements and the dent to fight potential financial and related crimes such as money laundering and the financing of terrorism. it went on to highlight how big

a problem money laundering is between 2 and 5 percent of global g.d.p. and that we'll check is not secret. neither is it a blacklist nor a law enforcement function it provides information on individuals and organizations collected from reliable and reputable information available in the public to maine and it does not prepare reports an individual's independent of this public information. it said that will check is governed by the 2018 british data protection act and that. these data protection laws expressly provide for information relating to suspicions of fraud money laundering and terrorist financing to be exchanged to allow banks to comply with relevant legislation. that included it said being regulated by the u.k. data protection agency the information commissioner's office and it said it applies

objective criteria when including information in the public domain. political judgment cools and not made and it is inaccurate to suggest that while check assists any government in their agendas they continued that it does not offer opinion and that. our terms and conditions require our customers to conduct that own investigations when using information n. well to check the statement ended by saying that anyone can request copies of data held about them and ask for it to be updated or corrected. so is there an argument that financial risk assessment databases should be directly regulated rather than simply by association with the banking system as a home the databases themselves are not regulated at the moment largely because.

the consumption of those databases is from firms who are themselves regular and and . this probably i mean there is clearly 2 sides they are going to be regulated. possibly to ensure that they apply robust controls but that would come with a cost and then that would be reflected in the charges that they apply to the banks and that would then be reflected in which knowledge is applied to you and me it is really important that these firms exist and do what they do because the banks would struggle to on board new clients without it and therefore they do need to be on the commercial route. very significant investment data protection is another key element of this debate. the information commissioner's office in the u.k. is the independent or thorough t. dealing with data protection reporting directly to parliament and it's told

al-jazeera. data has an important role to play in helping financial firms identify individuals and organizations that seek to use the u.k.'s financial system to launder the proceeds of crime and fund terrorism. firms should take reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy of the data they use to base their decision on. we have been carrying out detailed inquiries into this issue and our work is ongoing. do these databases always get it right is a question is asked a lot in the us he's clearly know from both human beings the human beings of. my experience and i have i have worked inside institutions that interact with it is they are pretty responsive and have good mechanisms for letting them know where the information that they carry is erroneous it's not perfect and. the existence of financial risk databases raises several questions that should concern

us all. is it legitimate and fair for a private company to collect data which although it's in the public domain comes from sources that may very well have their own political agendas. is it reasonable for that data then to be made available to subscribers on be known to the individuals and organizations concerned. all for that data potentially to be used to close bank accounts and seriously affect the financial status of those involved. all the regulator resave gods of the banking system alone sufficient to cover these databases. and to protect the rights and good standing of individuals and organizations who may unwittingly be caught up in the ever widening net of big financial data.

hello once again rick's got something of a change on the way for parts of north america as we go through the next couple of days it is every cloud just moving across the canadian prairie some wetter weather on this shot was long spells of rain just sinking down across the mountain states through montana some very heavy rain turning to snow as it moves over the high ground and sliding a little further south with the denver getting up to 33 celsius the heat continuing

here through monday brace yourself come choose day 3 degrees so you can see something of a massive change there will be some significant snowfall on this said but a wet weather into central parts of the u.s. over towards the lakes not too bad if it was easy to see one of the a few showers down towards the southeastern corner we could do with a right on the other side of the country because i'm afraid we're not going to see any of that in california l.a. still going up to 31 celsius not as hot as it has been but still plenty hot enough we'll see a few showers meanwhile across the southern parts of mexico over the next couple of days we've got a a tropical storm just offshore here not really causing too many problems a rash of showers through mexico through the yucatan peninsula into central america some really large ish hours to just around haiti cuba and some very wet weather for a time in jamaica.

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