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The bear growls – Russia
Enforcement of Russian anti-moneylaundering laws is bringing convictions, albeit with background concerns of
political motivation in some cases. Irina
Sedunova reports on progress from Moscow.Names and numbersBetween 2012 and 2016, according to..
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07 January 2019
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259 - 01 December 2018
Virtual Currencies and Brexit: what’s next?
John Binns (+44
(0)20 7430 2277, jbinns@bcl.com)
is a partner at BCL Solicitors LLP.
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16 January 2019
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260 - 01 February 2019
Senior UK government ministers chair new public-private economic crime taskforce
The UK Government launched a new Economic Crime Strategic Board on 14 January to oversee the national effort against illicit finance. The taskforce, jointly chaired by the Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, will meet twice a year to..
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18 January 2019
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260 - 01 February 2019
EU financial authorities and FIUs strike deal on AML/CFT information sharing
By Keith Nuthall
Online Published Date:
23 January 2019
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260 - 01 February 2019
London lawyer fined UK£45,000 over PEP negligence
Khalid Mohammed Sharif, a partner at London law firm Child & Child, has been fined UK45,000 by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal [1] for not taking adequate steps to check if clients wishing to set up a British Virgin Islands company to..
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24 January 2019
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260 - 01 February 2019
Big steps
Timon Molloy (timon.molloy@informa.com), Editor
Online Published Date:
30 January 2019
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260 - 01 February 2019
Lean in – fintech & third party AML disruption
New smallerbanks, competing with established players, and other payment service providers
(PSPs) are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their use of regtech to achieve
financial crime compliance. Jonathan
Dyson reviews some state of the art..
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30 January 2019
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260 - 01 February 2019
Colombia: living to tell the tale
Susan Grossey may be
contacted on +44 (0)1223 563636, susan@thinkingaboutcrime.com,
www.thinkingaboutcrime.com
Online Published Date:
30 January 2019
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260 - 01 February 2019
Aid, but abet? – charities and terrorist financing in the Middle East
Abuse of charities is a foundationtypology of terrorist financing and while much work has been done to safeguard
genuine humanitarian work, the threat, especially in the Middle East, remains
potent, as Paul Cochrane reports,
from Beirut.Charities..
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30 January 2019
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260 - 01 February 2019
Waiting game – Vietnam
Legislation before regulation: change toaddress money laundering risk in Vietnam is a stop-start process, finds Michael Tatarski in Ho Chi Minh City. Financial institutions and other anti-money
laundering reporting sectors in Vietnam have had to..
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30 January 2019
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260 - 01 February 2019
Blowing in the wind – cannabis and US compliance
Is the war on drugs lost? It would appear so for cannabis use in the USA, where the administration is showing little enthusiasm for enforcing federal law increasingly at odds with state legislation. Ed Zwirn, in New York tries to make sense of it..
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30 January 2019
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260 - 01 February 2019
Fortified – the arms trade and AML
The conventional arms trade has areputation for using side payment sweeteners to secure multi-million dollar
deals, writes Paul Cochrane. Despite
allegations of corruption in numerous jurisdictions [1], defence contracting is
not on the Financial..
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30 January 2019
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260 - 01 February 2019
USA imposes new sanctions on Venezuela to force out Maduro
By
Ed Zwirn, in New York
Online Published Date:
31 January 2019
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260 - 01 February 2019
Russian laundering cases highlight urgent need for action, MEPs told
By Liz Newmark, in Brussels
Online Published Date:
31 January 2019
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260 - 01 February 2019