Traditional forms of control that banks and institutions have on financial flows and services cannot be used to combat emerging money laundering and terrorist financing risks related to virtual assets according to the Council of Europe’s anti-money laundering and counter… 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 ›
The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) have produced an instalment on financial crime trends for their Anti-Money Laundering: The Basics educational series. It looks at the trends in criminal activity that underpin… Read More ›
Trade-based money laundering (TBML) is commonly used by migrant smugglers to disguise their criminal proceeds according to a new report published by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The proceeds generated by migrant smuggling are estimated to exceed US$10 billion… Read More ›
The head of the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine (SFMSU) has called on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to recognise Belarus as a country proliferating weapons of mass destruction and place it on its so called black list… Read More ›
Interpol has launched the Financial Crime and Anti-Corruption Centre (IFCACC) to provide a coordinated global response against what it describes as the exponential growth in transnational financial crime. The world police body says it will adopt a multi-agency approach, working… Read More ›
The chairman of the Ukrainian parliament says he has sent an appeal to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) asking it to include Russia on its list of high-risk jurisdictions, often referred to as the global watchdog’s black list. Ruslan… Read More ›