Formed in 1999 as the publishing arm of one of the first ever specialist financial crime risk and compliance consulting companies, Vortex Centrum was a pioneer in the field of online publishing. Its flagship product, World Money Laundering Report was one of the world's first electronic-first publications. It was, in 1999, the home of the then start-up The Financial Crime Forum and its sister The Economic Crime Forum.. We have recently branched out into other areas of publishing and commerce where Vortex Centrum is be the incubator for new ideas that will eventually stand alone. Scroll down to find out more.
We have one mission: to take complicated stuff and make it easy. That's all we do.
Training and education
With 30 years history of training and education in relation to financial crime risk and compliance, Vortex Centrum is your ideal training partner, taking your compliance and senior management people to places other training does not reach.
Led by financial crime risk and compliance pioneer Nigel Morris-Cotterill, our team has trained companies large and small and governments and regulators and has a combined experience exceeding 150 years.
Advanced e-learning with an emphasis on context, perspective, financial crime risk and critical thinking. See www.financialcrimetraining.com (corporate)) and https://payhip.com/b/RzI6L (instant access for individual purchasers)
Practitioner-focused face to face seminars and workshops in house, on site or retreats. See www.countermoneylaundering.com .
Advisory
In 1994, following a long career in law, taking in a wide range of disciplines, Nigel Morris-Cotterill began a specialism in financial crime risk and compliance. His primary focus is on the risks associated with financial crime, taking the view that the assessment, management and response to risk should define the appropriate compliance systems. He argues that to define compliance first, and to expect similar approaches and systems to fit all businesses is fundamentally flawed. He is a technologist, a designer of risk and compliance policies with integrated systems and procedures and has a long history of breaking systems that others say work well. He believes that technology should serve the objective, not be a fix-in-a-box to problems that companies probably don't have.
For more information, and to learn about how Nigel Morris-Cotterill lives his ethos of "question everything", visit www.countermoneylaundering.com
Books
Financial Crime Books
Fighting financial crime depends on information some of which is data. But you don't know what to do with data if you don't have the information that sets that data in context, explains the frameworks in which that data is used and explains why, and how, we have the law, regulation, policies, processes and procedures that form the compliance regimes.
Nigel Morris-Cotterill has spent decades explaining complexity in ways that make them easy to understand, from clients embarking on a new venture to Judges in the High Court in London, from families in crisis to mass audiences of tens of millions on e.g. The BBC, in print and in broadcast media.
For more information see here.
Other books
A book for the bereaved, a book to help authors overcome writer's block, a book about the practice of litigation and a fun fiction book about time travel and eating out and the memoire "The Day I Broke My Brain".
See details of those books here
FinCrimeTV
FinCrimeTV is the premier YouTube Channel for alternative viewpoints in financial crime risk and compliance. We exist to give voice to those who ask questions about law, regulation and policies. FinCrimeTV challenges orthodoxies with highly experienced presenters and guests.
Our programming concentrates on the practical for MLROs and the strategic for senior risk and compliance officers including our popular "Basics" series that explains e.g money laundering, Ponzi schemes and more. Along with discussions for those coming into this discipline giving hard and sometimes uncomfortable information about the field of endeavour they are embarking on.
FinCrimeTV is also the official broadcaster of The Financial Crime Forum and The Economic Crime Forum.
Watch FinCrimeTV at www.youtube.com/@fincrimetv
Inspiration, reinforcement and fun
We created ProjectLXX for one purpose but that soon exploded into a venture all of its own.
ProjectLXX (pronounced Project Seventy) designs and markets art and slogans on t-shirts, mugs, wall art and more which are produced to order and drop-shipped to your door.
Some products are fun, some reinforce educational or inspirational messages and some a harsh political satire. We are developing a range of products for The Old Man's Café, a project that encompasses web and video content for home cooks concentrating on ease and economy.
For more on ProjectLXX see www.projectlxx.com
The Old Man's Cafe (T.O.M.'s CAFE)
The Old Man's Café is a multimedia project that combines food and fun with information about cooking quick and easy food for the family with a view to quality, taste, speed and cost. We also look at how to reduce our effect on the environmenl with small day-to-day changes in the way we cook. if there's a mission (there isn't!) it's to encourage food preparation at home instead of using delivery services which are expensive, slow, of uncertain quality and create necessary "food miles" which have a wide range of adverse effects on the environment.
We use a mix of live video, static photographs and computer-generated images and video to inform, entertain and encourage. See www.tomscafeph.com and The Old Man's Café on YouTube.
Clarity
Clarity is the basis of all effective communication and yet, more and more, clarity is lost in the way we speak and write. We make slogans, we use imprecise terms, we use jargon and acronyms. Language is used to isolate, to insulate and to obfuscate.
Everything from the choice of vocabulary to the use of grammar has a direct effect on the way a message is received. Superficially, Vortex Centrum's Clarity service is a proofreading service but its principle value is in turning a collection of words into a pinpoint message.
Use the Enquiry form to find out more.
Campaigning
We have to admit to being new at campaigning, so why get involved at all?
It's simple: there are many campaigns that appear to serve the campaigners more than they serve the cause. So we are campaigning to draw attention to the cause first.
We have two nascent campaigns.
One is to draw attention to the risk of fraud and to prevent it happening in the first place. In general fraud campaigns concentrate on dealing with the consequences of fraud. That's back to front. We also explain terminology and argue against terms that are derogatory and/or misleading such as "pig butchering" and even against the use of words that make fraud sound less serious than it is, "scam" for example. For more information see www.thefraudawarnessproject.com
The other is to change the focus of attention that is paid to ecology. Much of what is promoted as ecologically sound benefits commerce and government and the "activists" that promote it and take a narrow view which, on a wider view is not as sound as they say. We look at things differently, identify the holes in arguments, not as experts but to encourage questions to be asked of those who present their arguments as immutable facts. This is very new. Watch our progress, and join in, at www.false-ecology.com .
And we find ourselves increasingly concerned for society in the face of increasing requirements, restrictions and regulations that are horribly reminscent of the worst excesses of communism and national socialism and fascism, with a toxic mix of actions imposed by governments and corporations.
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