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The war on dirty money /

Billions of dollars are wasted each year trying to prevent 'dirty money' entering a financial system that is already awash with it. The authors challenge the global approach, arguing that complacency, self-interest and misunderstanding have now created long-standing absurdities. Internatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Gilmour, Nicholas (Author), Hicks, Tristram (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol : Policy Press, 2023.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures, tables and boxes
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Global standards, governance and the risk-based approach
  • The war on dirty money is mostly being lost in translation
  • How much do we really know about money laundering?
  • The obsession with defining money laundering
  • Money launderers and their superpowers
  • Global watchlists: money laundering risk indicators or something else?
  • Financial Intelligence Units or data black holes?
  • The 'fingers crossed' approach to money laundering prevention
  • Technology: the solution to all our AML/CFT problems
  • SARs: millions and millions of them
  • Information and intelligence sharing
  • Investigating money laundering
  • Prosecuting money laundering
  • Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory: confiscation
  • Countering the financing of terrorism: money laundering in reverse
  • National security vs the threat of money laundering
  • Tax avoidance vs tax evasion
  • Corruption: where did all the good apples go?
  • AML/CFT supervision or tick-list observers?
  • Punishing AML/CFT failures or raising government funds?
  • A future landscape
  • Conclusion: A call to arms
  • Notes
  • Index