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 ›
More than one in ten of all Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) ever incorporated in Britain bear the hallmarks of shell companies used for serious financial crimes, according to a new report published today by Transparency International UK (TI). The independent… Read More ›
Nearly a decade after the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) introduced requirements for National Risk Assessments (NRAs) of money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF) risks, the international community is at the right point to review the past 10 years and… Read More ›
UK overseas jurisdictions, collectively with the UK itself, make up the world’s biggest enabler of financial secrecy, according to analysis by the Tax Justice Network (TJN). While the UK overseas jurisdictions, some of which have a reputation for operating as… Read More ›
New research by one of the world’s leading providers of vessel-tracking, sanctions screening and regulatory solutions endeavours to explain why banks, financial organisations, carriers, and shippers in the UK and Switzerland are losing out on big opportunities in green finance… Read More ›
The European Commission (EC) has set out plans to introduce a new import ban on Russian gold to align with the announcement last month that the UK, Canada, US and Japan would do so in an attempt to stem funding for… Read More ›
The UK government has published its proposals to clamp down on the use of anonymous or fraudulent shell companies and partnerships that provide criminals with a veneer of legitimacy to help commit a range of crimes, from money laundering and… Read More ›
Financial institutions are being urged by a new report to take leadership in advancing voluntary measures in efforts to break the connection between environmental crimes and finance. The report, Breaking the Environmental Crimes-Finance Connection, presents Finance for Biodiversity’s (F4B’s) analysis… Read More ›