Contemporary anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) practice has shifted toward evaluating the effectiveness of money laundering controls. In addition to the traditional output and activity measures of the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) 40 Recommendations,1 the current (fourth) round of evaluations also assesses...

Money laundering, terrorist financing, evading taxes, bribery, corruption, abuse of human rights and even modern-day slavery differ in their nature, but they have some things in common: They destroy people’s lives, undermine the common values in our societies and they are facilitated by a lack...