Global Financial Crime Review

Global Financial Crime Review, March – May 2012

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Not only do international organizations such as the United Nations have an important role to play in developing frameworks for combating crime and enforcing prevention, regional organizations are also strongly engaged in supporting individual countries' efforts to mitigate the risks attached to economic crimes such...
December 2011 – February 2012, Global Financial Crime Review

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Despite Indonesia's overall success in eradicating the country of Islamic terrorists and implementing tougher AML and counter terrorist financing (CTF) laws, it continues to be closely monitored by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The country faces particular challenges in combating its large-scale illegal timber...
Iceberg
Compliance, Europe, June 2011 – August 2011

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Editor's note: This article is the second in a series that examines how banks can better assess geographical risk. Both at client take-on and in transaction monitoring, geography plays a key role in helping banks carry out their risk-based approach to anti-money laundering (AML) compliance....