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Techniques for Overcoming Language Barriers in Open Source Investigations

01/18/23 3 minute read

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In today’s globalized economy, it’s increasingly common for financial crime professionals to encounter transnational entities and unfamiliar languages in the course of their investigations.

Translation tools can help overcome these hurdles – but only to a point, leaving investigators all the more vulnerable to making costly mistakes.

Thankfully, conducting investigations in languages you don’t speak is a skill, and this report is designed to help you cultivate it:

  • Section 1: How Words Change Between Languages. Understand the ways that translation, transliteration, and trade names affect the way company and individual names change across languages and jurisdictions.
  • Section 2: How to “Read” Corporate Documents in Languages You Don’t Speak. Develop best practices for “reading” corporate documents in unfamiliar languages, including the uses and limitations of Google Translate.
  • Section 3: Investigative Examples. Apply techniques and concepts in two illustrative sample investigations.

Access the report for practical techniques that will help you become a more valuable and effective investigator.

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