Question: Does the company mention membership in, or partnership with, multi-stakeholder initiatives that address modern slavery issues?
Answer:
Yes
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Walk Free
2020
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updated over 2 years ago by Bernadette Joudo

"10. Pertinent Societal Commitments We are a founding member of the Wolfsberg Group, an association of global banks that aims to develop financial services industry standards for policies on preventing financial crime such as corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing, and on Know Your Client principles. The Wolfsberg Group brings together banks globally at its annual forum and regional reach-out meetings focused on financial crime topics and works on guidance papers in related key areas of AML. Together with the other members of the Wolfsberg Group, we work closely with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an intergovernmental body that helps develop national and international policies on preventing money laundering and terrorist financing through consultation with the private sector. We have adopted the global FATF standards with respect to record keeping.We are a member of a number of public private partnerships operating globally which have been set up to foster closer working relationships between financial institutions and law enforcement, most notably the Joint Money Laundering Task Force Operations Group in the UK which has worked on a number of human trafficking and modern slavery cases. We are also a member of the European Bankers Alliance, an initiative dedicated to the fight against human trafficking. In 2017, the Alliance launched a “toolkit” containing a set of red flag indicators for human trafficking including transactional, KYC, and behavioural indicators; a list of aggravating factors – industries or countries which pose additional levels of risk; a set of case studies – past cases of human trafficking identified and reported by member banks.We are co-chair of the Thun Group of Banks – an informal group of bank representatives that work together with the primary purpose of (i) furthering understanding of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) within the context of banking, and (ii) considering how they may be applied across the range of different banking activities. Since its first meeting in 2011, the Thun Group’s focus has been on sharing expertise and experience to support the integration of the UNGPs into the policies and practices of banking institutions. In 2019 and 2020, the Thun Group of Banks established and conducted a dialogue with the Liechtenstein Initiative for a Financial Sector Commission on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking, which has in the meantime formed Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking" pg. 6

Bernadette Joudo.....2021-12-17 05:58:04 UTC