S&P Global Market Intelligence has published a case study describing how it provided a solution for an Asian-based Asian Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) team tasked with screening trade transactions for signs of trade-based money laundering (TBML) and identifying any direct… Read More ›
Transnational organised crime groups have been detected in trade-based money laundering (TBML) activities in New Zealand while customs operations are gearing up to focus more sharply on TBML operations according to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). In its newly released… Read More ›
Money laundering and illicit financial flows (IFFs) are amongst several concerns raised by petitioners who have triggered a five-judge bench of the Sri Lankan Supreme Court to examine several petitions filed against the US$1.4 billion China-funded Colombo Port City Commission… 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 ›
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 ›