Germany plans to create a national financial crime authority with the aim of effectively fighting white-collar crime, vigorously enforcing sanctions and overcoming its reputation as a money-laundering hub. A central element of the plan is to bundle the most important… Read More ›
Allowing environmental, conservation, and anti-corruption organisations to access export invoices and trade data to identify misinvoicing could help curb environmental crime, including illegal mining, logging, fishing, and wildlife trafficking, according to a virtual convention on environmental crime related illicit financial… Read More ›
Several stakeholders have commented on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) draft amendments to its Recommendation 25 (R25) on the transparency and beneficial ownership of legal arrangements (Trade-based Financial Crime, 29 June 2022). Financial institutions are amongst those stakeholders the… Read More ›
Financial institutions are amongst stakeholders the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is seeking views from in its review of its Recommendation 25 (R25) on the transparency and beneficial ownership (BO) of legal arrangements. The objective of the review is to… Read More ›
The ministers of the Financial Actional Task Force (FATF) at their biennial meeting in Washington last week said they “note with concern” that effectiveness of measures in place to fight money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing, remains insufficient in… Read More ›
Most countries have yet to make sufficient progress on preventing legal persons and arrangements from being abused for money laundering and terrorist financing according to a landmark report published by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Report on the State… Read More ›
Analysis of “long-concealed SWIFT data” to detect where money has been rerouted to should be used in efforts by newly established task forces to sanction Russian oligarchs and companies according to the Tax Justice Network (TJN). It says efforts to… Read More ›
The American Bankers Association (ABA) has responded to the proposal by the US treasury department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) for revised rules on beneficial ownership information reporting requirements (Trade-based Financial Crime, 30 December 2020). The association says it supports… Read More ›