If you are in a Law Firm in South Africa, you are no doubt fully aware by now, in terms of the FIC Act, Legal Practitioners are considered accountable institutions.
Accountable institutions must screen prospective employees and current employees for competence and integrity periodically, in a risk-based manner.
Accountable institutions must screen prospective employees and current employees for competence and integrity periodically, in a risk-based manner.
Organisations, including The GRM Group, have deployed www.umbiie.com to make sure every Attorney represented is compliant.
Umbiie has been created solely for legal professionals. It\'s an incredibly swift process - one sets up their profile, staying completely anonymous, next step are the verification checks.
It starts with the ID verification and in a couple of weeks time, PEP and fraud checks will be added.
Here\'s a quick video that explains how to sign up https://youtu.be/-xdnZnE7tSo
The checks are done swiftly by Umbiie\'s inbuilt verification tools, and the professional, and therefore the organisation, will be compliant immediately.
The beauty of the platform is that it is incredibly quick, safe, anonymous and can be built on as more checks are done. One is able to personally set up an anonymous profile, in about 10 minutes.
Andiswa Njakazi at Umbiie can be reached via [email protected] and she is extremely helpful