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United We Stand, Divided We Fall

October 22, 2019October 22, 2019 /Leave a comment

For the last two decades, financial institutions (FIs) and governments worked on different sides of the spectrum to combat financial crime. Governments imposed rules that sometimes curtailed FIs in the fight of such crimes. Now both parties are looking for ways to work closer...

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Iran’s Pension Funds, Sanctions and the Geofinancial War for the Middle East

October 17, 2019November 1, 2019 /Leave a comment

The urbanity of the regulatory world obscures the financial industry’s geopolitical side. Beneath the boardrooms, behind the conferences and between the lines of regulation lies the reality of the banking industry’s existence as an economic terrain. The recent drone attack and bombing of Saudi Arabia’s...

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Dirty Money in London’s Property Market

August 21, 2019August 22, 2019 /Leave a comment

In February 2018, the shocking case of Zamira Hajiyeva and her wealth caused upheaval in British tabloids. She is the wife of Jahangir Hajiyev, the prominent jailed Azerbaijani chairman of the state-controlled International Bank of Azerbaijan from 2001 to 2015. Hajiyeva was said to...