Defining Agile Scrum & Highlighting Its Main Advantages
If you’ve delved into the project management world, you’ve probably come across the term “agile scrum.” What exactly is this project management methodology? As explained by Michele Sliger during a...
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Keep Safe & Productive Under COVID-19: EIMF Online Course
At EIMF our first concern is to protect our friends, associates and employees, and we are following all official guidelines and monitoring the latest developments very closely. At the same time, like...
View ArticleCompany Meeting via Electronic Means
EIMF shares with you an important article that has been prepared by our subject-matter expert Mary – Olive McCluskey. Pertaining to the required provisions for “Company Meetings via Electronic Means”,...
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How is Everyone Feeling…Really?
“Food for thought” from our subject-matter-expert Lefki Angeli, who brings to the forefront her vast knowledge and experience of human behaviour to highlighted some of what we may be feeling during...
View ArticleWhy are Know Your Client (KYC) & Customer Due Diligence (CDD) Protocols of...
Greater transparency and in-depth due diligence are here to stay. A myriad of European and international regulations have bolstered and expanded compliance requirements for firms in the financial...
View ArticleWhat Makes a Good Project Manager?
During the past fifty years, project management (PM) has grown by leaps and bounds. What started off as a discipline that initially focused on the aerospace, construction and defense industries have...
View ArticleInternational Economic Sanctions: Can Covid-19 shift prevailing trends?
The imposition of sanctions at the international level in recent years, is considered to be a key component of a revived geopolitical rivalry between the West and the East; one that has had significant...
View ArticleHow to Connect AML Risk Assessment with Other Financial Risk Assessments
Until the latter part of the 20th century, financial crime had a limited scope and was understood to include corruption, bribery, fraud, money laundering (ML), the proceeds of drug trafficking and...
View ArticlePreventing Bribery and Corruption
Corruption is “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain”. It can be classified as grand, petty or political. Grand corruption occurs at a high level of government, through acts that distort...
View ArticleThe Impact of good Corporate Governance
Corporate Governance is widely accepted to cover how a company is directed and controlled while placing emphasis on the role of a company’s management, its board, its shareholders and other...
View ArticleFinancial Statement Fraud: Definition & Impact
According to the European Anti-Fraud Office, fraud is considered to be ‘a deliberate act of deception intended for personal gain or to cause a loss to another party’. Fraudulent practices have existed...
View ArticleEIMF and Code.hub Announces | Programming: From Zero to Hero
Teens and Young Learners Join the EIMF Family This Summer Through an inspiring Programming Live-Online Course, 13–17 year olds are offered the opportunity to spend an exciting few week this summer,...
View ArticleTransitioning to Online Learning: The EIMF Experience
Without a doubt, COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the way we do business. During this pandemic, many physical offices closed, pushing people to work remotely and adopt technologies that, while already...
View ArticleA New Era in Online Education
EIMF is dedicated to making education totally accessible by removing learning obstacles and offering a fully comprehensive eLearning experience. Professionals can enjoy easy access to a global...
View ArticleWe Leave Behind the Extraordinary Spring Season of 2020
What an extraordinary year! There is much to be said about the year so far and how it has been an unprecedented experience for every person – child and adult, every organisation and business,...
View ArticleKey Elements for an Effective KYC programme
A key concern and critical risk for financial institutions (FIs) remains the possibility of unknowingly becoming complicit in money laundering actions where illegitimate money is moved into legitimate...
View ArticleSelf-employed or Limited Company?
Choosing whether to operate as self-employed or instead set up a limited company, is a key decision for a new business wishing to operate in Cyprus. As two of the most common legal structures, there...
View ArticleCybersecurity at work or home
Whilst the Internet is an invaluable source of information and has become indispensable for communicating in our social and work lives, it harbours a large number of threats and pitfalls for the...
View ArticleThe Compliance Function: what is compliance and why is it important?
In general, compliance means conforming to a rule such as a specification, policy, standard or law. Regulatory compliance describes the goal that organisations aspire to achieve in their efforts to...
View ArticleAn Overview of the Financial Services Industry
The world is becoming increasingly integrated and interdependent, as trade and investment flows are global in nature. It is, therefore, important to understand the core role that the financial services...
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