Banks in the UK are spending £30 billion (US$34 billion) annually complying with anti-money laundering (AML) regulation, with three-quarters of budgets spent on people and only a quarter spent on technology according to a survey commissioned and published by LexisNexis Risk… Read More ›

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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 ›
TBML tops list of increased exposures to financial crimes by Australian financial institutions
Australian financial institutions have reported increased exposure to trade-based money laundering (TBML) and supply chain corruption amongst various other financial crimes over the past 18-24 months according to the latest LexisNexis True Cost of Compliance Study – Australia. The firms… Read More ›
TBML increasingly a priority for financial institutions in Asia Pacific says new report
New research conducted by RegTech NICE Actimize and Regulation Asia, suggests that countering financial crime could move beyond well-used tools such as suspicious transaction monitoring and sanctions screening and focus on high risk areas, including trade-based financial crime. Other areas… Read More ›
FATF publishes survey results on cross-border payments and the implementation of its standards
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) says it has published its final report on its survey to identify areas where divergent anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) rules or their implementation cause friction for cross-border payments. Cross-border Payments… Read More ›
GFI survey includes TBML amongst four key financial crimes in Latin America and the Caribbean
Trade-based money laundering (TBML) is one of four types of financial criminality examined in a comprehensive survey of 250 financial crime experts in Latin America and the Caribbean published by Global Financial Integrity (GFI). The Washington-based non-profit focused on illicit… Read More ›
Accuity survey reveals differences in trade compliance processes at banks, corporates and NBFIs
Accuity has conducted a survey on trade compliance and the specific challenges facing the industry. More than 120 compliance professionals from banks, insurance and fintech firms around the world participated in the survey. The results reveal differences in how global… Read More ›