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==See also==
==See also==
* [[Fraud]]
* [[Fraud]]
* [[Fraud Advisory Panel]]
* [[Front office]]
* [[Front office]]


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[[Category:Treasury_operations_infrastructure]]
[[Category:Treasury_operations_infrastructure]]

Revision as of 16:44, 1 October 2017

Splitting responsibilities within a process between different individuals or parts of an organisation, to reduce the risk of fraud.

Having dual controls, for example:

  • Capture by one person & verification or review by another person
  • Segregating tasks between departments.


In a larger organisation each of the following departments cannot perform tasks for other departments, each is separate - front office, risk management, compliance, legal, operations, finance, etc. Within each department, responsibilities are split & access rights to systems & information is on a need to have basis to perform the tasks.

See also