The UAE has launched a blockchain-based trade finance platform aimed at curbing double-financing and misinvoicing. UAE Trade Direct then intends turning to other key areas of trade finance, such as digitalising bills of lading and e-invoices and, in time, expects… Read More ›
Nigerian NGO Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) has published a three part report on policies, laws and practices in the UK and the UAE as well as domestically in relation to the roles of financial and non-financial institutions in… Read More ›
Saudi Arabia has announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the country’s Public Prosecution and its General Customs Authority (GCA) to the effect that they will cooperated to detect and prevent money laundering through its trade system. Trade-based money laundering… Read More ›
Traders and investors in Bangladesh found guilty of misdeclaration of exports, imports and investments abroad will be sentenced to seven years in prison as the country continues its clampdown on trade-based money laundering (TBML). The move is one of several… Read More ›
New analysis published 18 March that claims to expose the financial underbelly of global wildlife crime specifically contemplates the role trade-based money laundering (TBML) and trade-based value exchange plays in the illegal trade in natural resources. The report by TRAFFIC,… Read More ›
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has posted a 90 minute video of a webinar it held on 18 March 2021 to discuss the most recent trade-based money laundering trends (TBML) and developments. Underlining what appears to an increasingly sharp… Read More ›
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units have released a new guide for financial institutions and businesses providing a set of trade-based money laundering (TBML) risk indicators for people responsible for compliance, transaction monitoring, investigative… Read More ›
Importers, exporters, and their financial institutions have shifted away from traditional, document-based trade finance instruments over recent years towards non-documentary, open account settlement through clean wire transfers, which significantly increases sanctions risks according to maritime insight provider Windward. It says… Read More ›