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byLowers & Associates | January 21, 2016

If you run a business that facilitates or conducts money transactions, or transactions in other liquid commodities, you are no doubt aware of FinCEN. Rest assured that FinCEN is aware of you, too. And we predict it’s only a…

byLowers & Associates | December 23, 2015

As 2015 comes to a close, we are pleased to share our most popular articles from the Risk Management Blog in 2015. 1. 4 Red Flags of Money Laundering or Terrorist Financing One of the most important aspects of…

byLowers & Associates | November 20, 2015

As we look toward 2016, we thought it might be useful to get a quick big picture on organizational fraud for context. We have been posting about the causal factors driving fraud and urging you to develop an effective…

byLowers & Associates | November 19, 2015

Ordinary people can do extraordinary things, including committing fraud. The question is, what motivates an ordinary person to morph into a fraudster? “Pressure,” or motivation, is one of the three causal factors of Donald Cressey’s Fraud Triangle, along with…

byLowers & Associates | November 18, 2015

Donald Cressey’s Fraud Triangle historically has received a lot of attention during the ACFE’s Fraud Week and for good reason. It supplies a useful set of analytical distinctions in its three components—opportunity, rationalization, and pressure or motivation—that lead us…