A true success story requires an alignment of factors that combine into seamless recovery proceedings. An asset tracing investigation is only one of these factors, whatever its quality of execution.

As efforts to freeze the assets of Russian individuals under sanctions have made headlines, we wished to reflect on the operational difficulties caused by the complexity and opacity of the ...

SFC Founder Yannick Poivey comments on Russian oligarchs moving money offshore in a ACAMS - moneylaundering.com article.

Creditors sometimes fight the wrong battle: they focus recovery action on the tip of the iceberg, because the debtor has made arrangements to divulge only a minor part of their ...

Il y a toujours des dossiers plus urgents à gérer, mais il faut tout de même se méfier des comptes qui dorment. Les relationship managers en banque privée y sont ...

Quite often, external investigations remain strictly external and do not draw on the wealth of information available within the client’s digital archives. Of course, it is understandable that clients may ...

Switzerland’s recurrent presence in multi-jurisdictional asset tracing exercises is certainly not proportionate to the small size of its territory. With a bit of time and expertise, a number of easy ...

In our daily practice of investigations for tracing assets, we are most often confronted with two scenarios: broadly defined assignments ("we don’t know specifically what we are looking for but ...