The US state department is offering a reward of up to US$10 million for information leading to the disruption of the financial mechanisms of al-Shabaab, the Islamic fundamentalist jihadist group based in Somalia and active elsewhere in East Africa. The… Read More ›
Trade finance products and services as well as correspondent banking are amongst the bank offerings at South African banks at highest risk for money laundering (ML), terrorist financing (TF) and proliferation financing (PF) according to a report by the Prudential… Read More ›
US agencies have issued a joint statement reminding banks that no customer type presents a single level of uniform risk or a particular risk profile related to money laundering, terrorist financing, or other illicit financial activity. Consequently, they say banks… Read More ›
Analysis of information received from financial institutions is a core function of financial intelligence units (FIUs), particularly in the asset recovery process according to a new report by the Egmont Group of FIUs. The group facilitates and prompts the global… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
One of the UAE’s most prominent political figures has put his name to an extensive article outlining what appear to be substantial changes to the emirates’ anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) systems. In 2020 the Financial Action… Read More ›