&With results on more than 70 Countries published and updated relating to technical compliance with the FATF 40 Recommendations as well as on effectiveness based…

The EU Special Committee on Financial Crimes, Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance (TAX3) concluded a 12 month study and presented recommendations to overhaul current systems…

In February, 2019 the EU Commission published a list of 23 Countries, which it believes have strategic deficiencies in their AML/CTF regimes and as such…

With US money-laundering laws, dating back to the 1970s, some appear out of date, which according to Senator Elizabeth Warren, “makes it hard for law…

FinCEN Director, Ken Blanca’s presented remarks to the SIFMA AML conference in Feb 2019, were of particular interest in that they focussed on regulatory reform…

The Royal Foundation’s United for Wildlife’s Financial Taskforce was launched in Q4 2019 in order to help target organised crime and the proceeds of the…

Countries where FATF has called for counter measures remains unchanged with both North Korea and Iran still listed. That said counter measures on Iran had…

On the 4th/5th February, 2019 over a billion people celebrated the beginning of a new year, the year of the pig. Festivities are celebrated throughout…

It should come as no surprise that Russia is one of the largest exporters of illicit money, and has been so for decades. This is…

During a meeting held on 31 January 2019 at the UN Security Council, titled “Preventing and Countering the financing of terrorism,” chaired by the French delegation, it…