{"id":18799,"date":"2021-11-15T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/11\/15\/kenanga-investment-bank-launches-annual-flagship-fraud-awareness-campaign-to-boost-good-governance-and-esg-integration\/"},"modified":"2021-11-15T02:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T02:20:00","slug":"kenanga-investment-bank-launches-annual-flagship-fraud-awareness-campaign-to-boost-good-governance-and-esg-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/11\/15\/kenanga-investment-bank-launches-annual-flagship-fraud-awareness-campaign-to-boost-good-governance-and-esg-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenanga Investment Bank Launches Annual Flagship Fraud Awareness Campaign to Boost Good Governance and ESG Integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8211; 15 November 2021 &#8211; With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenanga.com.my\/\">Kenanga&#13;<br \/>\nInvestment Bank Berhad<\/a> (&#8220;Kenanga Group&#8221;) accelerating the integration of&#13;<br \/>\nEnvironmental, Social, Governance (ESG) aspects into its operations, the Group today launched its fifth annual Fraud Awareness Week&#13;<br \/>\n(FAW), the highlight of a month-long virtual Fraud Awareness campaign which has&#13;<br \/>\nunited many internal and industry participants in a move to promote the fight&#13;<br \/>\nagainst fraud, bribery, and corruption.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/images.media-outreach.com\/Thumb\/500x0\/196953\/Kenanga-image.jpg#image-196953\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><b>L-R<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i>&#8211; Tan Sri Azam Baki, Chief Commissioner of&#13;<br \/>\nthe Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i>&#8211; Dato&#8217; Seri Akhbar Satar, President of the&#13;<br \/>\nMalaysian Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (MACFE)<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i>&#8211; Datuk Chay Wai Leong, Group Managing&#13;<br \/>\nDirector of Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i>&#8211; Maheswari Kanniah, Chief Regulatory Officer&#13;<br \/>\nof Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Themed&#13;<br \/>\n&#8216;Reinforcing Ethical Values through Regulatory Dynamism&#8217;, delegates of public&#13;<br \/>\nlisted companies, professional bodies, as well as, over 290 representatives&#13;<br \/>\nfrom Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), Bursa Malaysia Berhad,&#13;<br \/>\nSecurities Commission Malaysia, Bank Negara Malaysia, Employees&#8217; Provident Fund&#13;<br \/>\nand Kenanga Group, have engaged in interactive anti-fraud games and quizzes and&#13;<br \/>\nseminars designed to enhance awareness on trends and practices surrounding&#13;<br \/>\nfraud prevention and detection. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While presenting his keynote address at the virtual&#13;<br \/>\nopening ceremony today, Tan Sri Azam&#13;<br \/>\nBaki, the Chief Commissioner of MACC remarked, &#8220;We need to continuously work in building critical elements of trust and&#13;<br \/>\ntransparency which will ultimately enable Malaysia to achieve its aspiration to&#13;<br \/>\nbe a corrupt-free nation. The dedication and commitment held by Kenanga&#13;<br \/>\nInvestment Bank Berhad through its FAW programme in promoting anti-fraud&#13;<br \/>\nawareness is outstanding, and I am optimistic that MACC and Kenanga can further&#13;<br \/>\nstrengthen the existing bond in fighting corruption.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;We are very pleased that we&#13;<br \/>\nhave managed to expand an internal campaign which we started five years ago,&#13;<br \/>\ninto this industry call to action to combat fraud, and at the same time,&#13;<br \/>\nrespond to the United Nations Global Compact&#8217;s 10<sup>th<\/sup> Principle which emphasises&#13;<br \/>\nthe need for businesses to work against corruption in all its&#13;<br \/>\nforms.<b><i> <\/i><\/b>\u00a0As we work to further incorporate ESG criteria&#13;<br \/>\nthroughout our value chain, we are committed to continue amplifying the importance&#13;<br \/>\nof accountability, integrity, and good governance and rally more people to join&#13;<br \/>\nthe fight against fraud,&#8221; commented Datuk Chay Wai Leong, Group Managing&#13;<br \/>\nDirector, Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maheswari Kanniah, the Group Chief&#13;<br \/>\nRegulatory and Compliance Officer of Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad added, &#8220;With&#13;<br \/>\nthe recent spike in cybercrimes, triggered by the sudden shift towards online&#13;<br \/>\ntransactions due to the pandemic, this year&#8217;s campaign has been bolstered with&#13;<br \/>\nan emphasis on cyber security. To safeguard against this concern, we are working&#13;<br \/>\nhand in hand with regulators, solution providers and the public to raise&#13;<br \/>\nawareness, tighten controls and enhance measures to manage its risks and&#13;<br \/>\nexposure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;We must educate ourselves on issues relating&#13;<br \/>\nto fraud and corruption, in addition to being vigilant in taking proactive and&#13;<br \/>\npreventive steps to deter acts of fraud and corruption. Participating in FAW is&#13;<br \/>\none step taken towards being part of the solution as it raises awareness on&#13;<br \/>\nfraud and corruption,&#8221; mentioned Dato&#8217; Sri Akhbar Satar, President of the&#13;<br \/>\nMalaysian Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (MACFE).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This flagship campaign, which is rolled-out&#13;<br \/>\nannually in conjunction with the International FAW of the Association of&#13;<br \/>\nCertified Fraud Examiners headquartered in Austin, Texas, serves to complement&#13;<br \/>\nthe full suite of policies, frameworks, and robust internal controls Kenanga Group&#13;<br \/>\nhas in place to embed good business conduct and high standards of integrity, operate ethically&#13;<br \/>\nand transparently, as well as, in compliance with applicable laws and&#13;<br \/>\nregulations.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Kenanga Group, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenanga.com.my\/\">www.kenanga.com.my<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-11-15\/104791\/kenanga-investment-bank-launches-annual-flagship-fraud-awareness-campaign-to-boost-good-governance-and-esg-integration\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA &#8211; Media OutReach&#13; &#8211; 15 November 2021 &#8211; With Kenanga&#13; Investment Bank Berhad (&#8220;Kenanga Group&#8221;) accelerating the integration of&#13; Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) aspects into its operations, the Group today launched its fifth annual Fraud Awareness Week&#13; (FAW), the highlight of a month-long virtual Fraud Awareness campaign which has&#13; united many internal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}