Systems and Methods for Managing Risk Associated with a Geo-Political Area

Abstract

Methods and systems are presented for managing Risks, including regulatory and reputational risk. The methods can be implemented in a computer and include receiving data descriptive of informational artifacts with content related to at least one of reputational and regulatory risk into the computer system. The computer system can have one or more geo-political areas defined within it. The computer system can also receive data descriptive of details of a financial transaction, wherein the details include an indication of at least one geopolitical area associated with the financial transaction. At least one informational artifact related to at least one of reputational and regulatory risk can be associated with the at least one geopolitical area associated with the financial transaction and the computer system can generate a report comprising data descriptive of the informational artifacts associated with the at least one geopolitical area associated with the financial transaction.

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         16 . A computer implemented method for managing risk associated with a financial transaction, the method comprising:
 defining within a computer system one or more policies, each policy associated with one or more geo-political area;   receiving data descriptive of a financial transaction comprising, at least, data descriptive of one or more geo-political areas associated with the financial transaction; and   transmitting the policy associated with the geo-political area to a person responsible for regulatory compliance of the financial transaction.   
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 16  wherein the financial transaction comprises a fund transfer between with a country of origination different from the destination country. 
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 16  wherein the financial transaction comprises investment banking. 
     
     
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