The total projected cost of financial crime compliance in the US and Canada for 2022 is up 13.6 per cent from 2021 to US$56.7 billion, according to a survey of North American financial institutions by Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions. The… Read More ›
Financial crime
Interpol pollution crime survey underlines inextricable links between environmental crime and trade-based fraud
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 ›
Banks drawn into reputational laundering networks to obscure illicit gains
Reputation launderers, notably public relations agencies and law firms, are distorting the financial crime and sanctions risk profiles of kleptocratic regimes and oligarchs seeking to launder and protect their illicit gains according to academic and investigative researchers. Banks can also… Read More ›
Financial crime specialists expect to benefit from Danske Bank’s trade finance collaboration with Conpend
Danske Bank has announced plans to digitise its trade finance processes through a collaboration with Conpend for use of its Trade AI app to automatically check against anti-money laundering (AML), know your customer (KYC) and sanctions regulations. Trade AI employs… Read More ›
Financial crime trends guidance issued by accountants
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 ›
Interpol launches new centre focused on financial crime and corruption
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 ›
Assessing the impact of Covid-19 on trade-based financial crime
In the two years since the first cases of Covid-19 were reported several experts and authorities have endeavoured to establish the impact of the pandemic on trade-based financial crime (TBFC). But while it is relatively easy to establish increased vulnerabilities… Read More ›
TBML not well understood, even by financial experts
The principal vulnerability to trade-based money laundering (TBML) in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is that it is not well understood, even by financial crime experts according to Global Financial Integrity (GFI). For its latest survey, Financial… Read More ›