Posted in Financial Crime Money Laundering

Trade Based ML in Sub Saharan Africa by FCN - Premium

Trade Based Money Laundering (“TBML”) is one of the main means by which criminal groups and terrorist financiers launder money, and by which illicit financial…

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Cash Based Money Laundering in Sub Saharan Africa by FCN - Premium

Cash-based money laundering is the main means by which criminal organisations and terrorist financiers launder money, not just in SSA, but also around the world….

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Posted in Financial Crime Fraud Money Laundering Sanctions

Editor’s Summary – FCN2

When I started this Newsletter, I wanted to offer a digestible collection of both interesting and relevant materials to arm financial crime fighter’s with additional…

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Money Laundering
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What is Money Laundering?

Is Money Laundering a modern phenomena? Whilst the term “money laundering” in the sense we understand it now was first used in print in 1973…

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Laundromats
Posted in Financial Crime Money Laundering

Laundromats by Graham Barrow

So called laundromats, like the Russian, Azerbaijani and Troika laundromats are making headlines, tarnishing once stellar reputations, and leading to serious questions about their prevalence,…

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Transparency International
Posted in Financial Crime Money Laundering

Transparency Int’s CPI Results by Hillary Rosenberg

A common thread behind much of the financial success enjoyed by criminals is the prevalence and persistence of Corruption. According to the Global Corruption Barometer…

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Posted in Financial Crime Money Laundering

Modern Organised Crime turns 100

Whilst the term “organised crime” appears to have emerged in Chicago in 1919, the phenomenon of organised criminal activity far pre-dates this and its manifestations…

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Posted in Financial Crime Money Laundering

EU & Americas News by Vincent Heintz

As major changes to AML/CTF are being considered and discussed, developments on both sides of the North Atlantic are of particular note, of which the…

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Corruption
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Corruption Perceptions from Africa by Solomon Abiakalam

Traditional African societies educated their young using folklore. By exploring folklore further, it may offer Africa insight into its corruption problems. Storytelling, has a long…

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Posted in FATF Financial Crime Money Laundering

FATF Country Evaluation Results – Part 2

It has already been reported in FATF Country Evaluation Results – Part 1 that over 70 Countries were assessed based on published FATF Reports and…

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