| (C/S/P) Client | Private individual or legal entity which buys goods or services from the supplier. |
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| (C/S/P) General | The C/S/P is always the beneficial owner of a relationship. |
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| (C/S/P) Partner | Organization or person with which another organization collaborates in order reach agreed common objectives. By organization we understand a group, which may or may not be controlled by institutions, which offers determined objectives. It may be a matter of an organism, a company, an association, a syndicate or various entities, as well as any private individual or legal entity. In this context, the term partner is employed in the plural. |
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| (C/S/P) Supplier | Private individual or legal entity that supplies goods or services required for production or working to an organism, a company. |
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| A/M/O/Z | Mnemonic term which indicates the area of TSI™’s application. Namely, all activities involving risk, within risk areas for objects involving risk in risk zones. |
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| Accredited ETHICS™ auditor by an internationally recognized organism | Private individual authorized to audit both clients certified ETHICS™ and clients using TSI™ wishing to have one or several TSI™s validated by a recognized and experienced expert. Please refer to www.insideco.org and www.isasgroup.org for information to this effect. PS: An establishment may have one or several auditors accredited with an internationally recognized organism in order to carry out internal audits of TSI™ and ETHICS™ thereafter. |
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| Activity | Activity of the organization filed according to the international NOGA nomenclature. |
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| Administrator | Upon Installation of TSI™, the program installs by default one user with the name and the function "administrator". The particular rights of the administrator are defined in the “tool” part of the superior bar of the application.
The administrator’s task, if required, is to attribute user names and passwords to all operators.
Moreover, the administrator is responsible for the security and regular backups of the application as well as all saved data by means of the standard tools of which he disposes.
The administrator may access all TSI™s of all operators.
The administrator is responsible for the creation and update of internal procedures and particular lists of the establishment, if applicable. |
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| Analysis of indices | While the indices are general indicators expressing a tendency for suspicion or a “green light” for a given transaction, the operator must also pay attention to the results of the report per indicator linked to each question. Following calculation of answers by the program, each answer will have a value between 1 (good), 2 (pay attention) and 3 (negative – danger) associated to it, visually respectively expressed by green, orange or red flags. If the index is of positive tendency, the operator will scrutinize all the report searching for indicators with a red flag. If applicable, s/he will try to explain and clarify the reasoning behind such critical values. Only after this has been done, final responsibility to either execute a transaction or take corrective measures may be taken. |
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| Commercial operation | Designation, within the interactive program, of the name attributed to a grouped TSI™ (Please refer to grouped TSI™). |
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| Correspondence | Plausibility of combining two or several elements referring in this case to one or several transactions realized by one or several entities (profiles). |
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| Criminal organization | "Any group having a corporate structure whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities, often surviving on fear and corruption" (Interpol).
"A criminal organization is a group of actors, interconnected in a stable and structured way, acting in an autonomous manner with the objective to ensure maximal enrichment, primarily by systematic and coordinated exploitation of opportunities criminalized by law or any other form of regulations (traditions, customs, etc.)”.
This definition will be completed by legal definitions existing in the countries in which the certification will be applied. |
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| Documentation | TSI™ allows inputting information regarding documentation on which answers to various questions are based. All TSI™ versions allow input of an identification number for a physical and non-computerized document in the « document » field of each question. Certain versions of TSI™ allow attaching one or several scanned or original documents generally born by a PC to a question. The program allows choosing, selecting, erasing or direct display of one or several documents on the screen. This option is necessary in the event of editing a complete TSI™ with all documents attached and required (management, control, audit, investigation). |
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| ETHICS™ (International Standard for Corporate Integrity) | Criminal networks and influences impose major risks on many economical actors nowadays: total loss of independence in racketing cases, but also loss of image and confidence of clients and shareholders due to scandals or judicial proceedings, loss of money due to characterised fraud, etc.
The ETHICS™ certification is a complex product with very high added value. Being a “system” type certification (ISO classification), it applies to non-state, incorporated legal entities.
It is modelled on the series of standards ISO 9000 : 2000 and compatible with them, as well as other certifications such as SA 8000 (Social Accountability) and ISO 14000 (environment).
As a scheme of certification, it leans on the whole to techniques and standards put into place on an international level (ISO or International Standard of Organization) in order to guarantee its fundamental quality, its added value is its realization.
As such, it is a matter of a constructive approach where each step is traceable, controllable and may be repeated. The certification process integrates the principle of third party control, meaning that each element, both the standard itself and the process of application of the said standard (the process of certification) is controlled and revised by at least three different entities, which are independent of each other.
For more information, please refer to www.insideco.org, www.isasgroup.com |
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| Establishment | Legal or physical entity using TSI™. It is represented within TSI™ by the name and identity of the operator. |
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| Expert | Experienced person in his/her field of activity and professional circles, capable of controlling the specific environment for maximum exploitation of TSI™. The expertise implies detailed knowledge of rules and legal frames within which such or such establishment or company operates. |
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| Geographical risk zones | A geographical risk zone is a region in the world (not necessarily within strict national frontiers) in which the activity of organizations or other criminal groups is statistically high, endemic or historically linked. The list of geographical risk zones may be obtained from INSIDE.CO SERVICES. It is updated once a year at the most. |
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| Group of professions | The groups of professions are filed according to the international ISCO88 nomenclature. |
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| How to use TSI™? | By downloading the interactive software, purchasing credits for calculation of risk indices. A TSI™ credit corresponds to one commercial transaction comprising a profile and a transaction. It is possible to combine several simple TSI™s in one grouped operation in order to keep an overview on all of the transactions. |
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| Links | Please refer to « Links » on the www.insideco.net website in order to access internet resources related to the field of prevention and international economic crime. |
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