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Graph technology: seeing more in the data
The author is CEO and Co-Founder of Neo4j (www.neo4j.com), the graph database company.
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02 August 2019
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Crime pays in 77% of the world, it’s shocking. We need a Task Force.
Tristram Hicks spent a decade on the UK Criminal Finance Board and in operational command of financial investigators. He now teaches and researches.
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02 August 2019
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Challenges with implementing proliferation financing controls: how export controls can help
Togzhan Kassenova, PhD, CAMS is a Washington, DC-based senior fellow with the Project on International Security, Commerce, and Economic Statecraft (PISCES), Center for Policy Research, University at Albany – State University of New York. This article is republished with kind permission from WorldECR (www.worldecr.com).
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05 August 2019
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Chinese bank records of transactions outside correspondent account accessible by prosecutors, US court rules
A US appeals court has ruled [1] that the Patriot Act permits prosecutors to access the records of transactions by a foreign bank which do not pass through its US correspondent account if they form part of a larger plan to use it to acquire US..
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07 August 2019
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Over UK£100m frozen as new orders bite in overseas corruption case
Suspected proceeds of foreign bribery and corruption totalling more than UK£100 million are locked in eight bank accounts after the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) was granted account freezing orders on 12 August [2019].If subsequent investigation..
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14 August 2019
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EU prepares for reissue of third country ML/TF blacklist
The EU Commission is set by October [2019] to publish a revised methodology for identifying third countries that are failing to adequately combat money laundering and terrorist financing, according to a Financial Times report.Vera Jourova, the EU’s..
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19 August 2019
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Approach with caution – an FATF guidance quartet
Susan Grossey may be contacted on +44 (0)1223 563636, susan@thinkingaboutcrime.com, www.thinkingaboutcrime.com
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22 August 2019
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Trade flows
Trade-based money laundering is acomplex, fluid typology, as hard for regulated businesses to recognise and
control as it is for law enforcement to track and investigate. Subject to
tightening US sanctions, Iran, with already unrivalled expertise..
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22 August 2019
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Correspondents course – MSBs & derisking
Money service businesses are cash-intensiveso heavily red-flagged, yet vital to migrant workers sending home small sums
and sometimes the only conduit for financial aid in conflict zones. MLB
correspondents, Paul Cochrane, Ramadhan Rajab, Jens..
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22 August 2019
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Not so small – Bermuda & Liechtenstein
Hard to locate, perhaps, on a map of the world, Bermuda and Liechtenstein cannot be overlooked in any survey of global financial centres. Jens Kastner compares how the jurisdictions are working to secure their futures as wealth havens in the era of..
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22 August 2019
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In the pits – F1 sponsorship and Italian tax evasion
Four months before the Formula One carsscream off the start-line in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza on 6-8 September
[2019], a major arrest linked to money laundering was made in Dubai. Brenda
Dionisi reports from Milan.On 29 May 2019 Luigi Provini..
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22 August 2019
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