Banks are providing by far the greatest number of suspicious activity reports (SARS) to the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) according its latest report which features statistics covering the years 2020-21 and 2021-22. The agency’s 2022 Suspicious Activity Report (SARs)… Read More ›

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UK tax and customs authority developing TBML strategic action plan
Britain’s tax and customs authority, His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), is developing a strategic action plan to significantly degrade the ability of organised crime groups to use trade-based money laundering (TBML). Writing in the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA)… 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 ›
UK launches new probe into its ‘fragmented’ AML system amidst new TBML concerns
The UK’s treasury committee has launched a new inquiry into the country’s anti-money laundering (AML) system, its efforts to combat economic crime and its sanctions regime. In its last AML report published nearly two years ago, the committee highlighted an… Read More ›