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2021 08 02 Claude Marx

On 23 July, Mr Michel HUNAULT, Director of the Service d'Information et de Contrôle sur les Circuits Financiers (SICCFIN), and Mr Claude MARX, Director General of the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), ratified a cooperation agreement in order to strengthen the effectiveness of the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing. We interviewed Mr Claude MARX.

AMAF-Safe-CityOn Monday 19th July 2021, in the Grand Hall of the Ministry of State, Mr Patrice CELLARIO, Government Councillor-Minister of the Interior and Mr Etienne FRANZI, President of the Association Monégasque des Activités Financières (AMAF), formalised the creation of the Vigibanque Committee, reinforcing the already long-standing partnership between the 30 Monegasque banks and the Public Security.

signatureOn 23 July, Mr Michel HUNAULT, Director of the Service d'Information et de Contrôle sur les Circuits Financiers (SICCFIN), and his Luxembourg counterpart, Mr Claude MARX, Director of the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), ratified a cooperation agreement in order to reinforce the effectiveness of the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing.

square-capitalSquare Capital was created in 2007, initially to serve exclusively private clients. It now manages €1.3 billion in assets from its offices in London, Paris, New York and Monaco. We meet Hugues Decobert, Co-founder of the company.

siccfin-amafOn Monday 5th July, under the chairmanship of the Government Councillor-Minister of the Department of Finance and the Economy, Mr Jean CASTELLINI, a protocol was signed at the Ministry of State with the aim of organising and modernising the control missions carried out by SICCFIN's inspection teams within financial institutions.
Mr Etienne FRANZI, Chairman of the AMAF, and Mr Michel HUNAULT, Director of SICCFIN, therefore ratified the protocol.

2021-07-16_ritossa

Mr Justin Highman, Deputy Director General of the Monaco Economic Board, and Mr Hervé Ordioni, Chairman of the Commission for the Promotion of the Monegasque Financial Centre and Managing Director of Banque Edmond de Rothschild in Monaco, opened the Summit on 1 July. They respectively presented the country's economic assets and the advantages of the financial centre, highlighting the strong growth in the number of family offices in the Principality.

Andbank-Monaco

Andbank Monaco SAM was created on 1 July 2011 when the Andbank Group wanted to expand its offer dedicated to high-end international Private Banking clients. We meet Mr. Gérard GRISETI, CEO & Partner, at the head of this discreet but very efficient bank.

2021-07-09_Michel-BOUQUIER

Michel Bouquier runs Monaco Private Label (MPL), a platform designed to attract wealthy clients and created in 2009. MPL is very dynamic and last April it organised a Phygital Summit attended by almost a thousand UHNW internet users, and is also very interested in young people...

robert-laureACI Monaco, "The Financial Market Association", organises an annual conference on a topical subject. Last June, it welcomed Professor Christian GOLLIER, a Belgian economist who founded the Toulouse School of Economics with Jean Tirole (Nobel Prize) in 2007, and a specialist in environmental economics. Meeting with Robert LAURE, the President of the association.

Xavier-LabordeXavier Laborde is CEO and co-founder of SILEX, an investment company based in Monaco. He describes his ambitions for the company and the reasons for opening an office in the Principality.

gerald-mathieu

Gérald Mathieu was recently appointed CEO of Barclays Monaco. He tells us about his ambitions as Barclays celebrates its 100th birthday in the Principality next year.

reunion-siccfinAt the initiative of Mr. Michel Hunault, Director of SICCFIN and head of the Monegasque delegation to the MONEYVAL committee, an update on the work of Monaco's National Risk Assessment (NRA2) was held on 15 April 2021 at the Grimaldi Forum. in the presence of Messrs. Jean Castellini, Minister of Finance and Economy, Stéphane Valeri, President of the National Council, and Robert Gelli, Secretary of Justice, among others.

ordioniHervé Ordioni, Managing Director of Banque Edmond de Rothschild in Monaco and Chairman of the "Promotion of the Monaco Financial Place" Commission of the Association Monégasque des Activités Financières (AMAF), takes stock of everything that the Principality of Monaco is actively doing to comply with European standards in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing.

2021-04-08_PayiatakisHow is sustainable finance evolving? Can we talk about sustainable investment strategies, or just opportunities? We hear from Damian Payiatakis on these topics.

2021 03 20 magalhaesTNP, a leading performance consulting firm, continues its international growth and sets up in Monaco. At its head, Christian MAGALHAES, director, expert in financial services and Benoît RANINI, president & co-founder of TNP. We met them.

Jean CastelliniH.S.H. the Sovereign Prince's commitment to sustainable development underpins the actions of His Government. Sustainable Finance was already a reality in the Principality in the 2000s. Mr. Jean Castellini, Government Counsellor - Minister of Finance and Economy, wishes to position the Monegasque financial place as an international model of green finance.