Illicit asset recovery is set to play a more significant role in global efforts to deprive criminals of their ill-gotten gains with the announcement of a joint initiative launched by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and INTERPOL to recover… Read More ›
Nearly a decade after the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) introduced requirements for National Risk Assessments (NRAs) of money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF) risks, the international community is at the right point to review the past 10 years and… Read More ›
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 ›
Despite two recent high profile out-of-court settlements involving major Dutch banks, some of the Netherland’s supervisors still heavily rely on informal enforcement actions and warning letters according to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). In its Mutual Evaluation Report Netherlands-2022,… Read More ›
Document fraud and financial crime are systematically employed by organised criminal groups to facilitate offences related to pollution crime that generate millions of US dollars each year, a new survey by Interpol has found. The survey underlines the finding of… Read More ›
Germany has drawn criticism from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for not doing enough to tackle money laundering, such as not implementing reforms to its anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime and prosecuting very few for… Read More ›
An interview with anti-corruption expert José Hernandez published this month by the Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) of Canada provides a comprehensive overview of the global factors making it ever more difficult to “follow the money” in cases of corruption or… Read More ›
Standard Bank’s reliance on trade finance is a factor that makes the lender the most likely to lose earnings if South Africa is placed on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list, according to a report by RMB Morgan… Read More ›