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The Europe Express column features anti-financial crime-related content with a regional focus in Europe from subject-matter experts.

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Europe Express, Français, World Digest

Les Sanctions Internationales Envers L’Iran : Entre Approche Européenne et Approche Américaine

January 23, 2020 /Leave a comment

Contexte Géopolitique et Mise en Place des Sanctions à L’encontre de L’Iran Depuis la chute du régime du Chah d’Iran en 1979, partenaire inconditionnel de l’occident à l’époque, et la mise en place d’une République Islamique en lieu et place, l’Iran a entretenu des...

Europe Express, World Digest

An Updated Smorgasbord of Regulations

January 7, 2020January 8, 2020 /Leave a comment

In June 2019, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published its updated guidance, clarifying the applicability of FATF Recommendations to virtual currencies and Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs). In contrast to earlier guidance, which highlighted a subset of FATF Recommendations relevant to covered entities, this...

Europe Express, World Digest

Third Year of the Compliance Officer Degree Program: Art and Money Laundering

November 27, 2019December 17, 2019 /Leave a comment

On June 20, 2019, students of the compliance officer degree program presented their final assignments. For the third consecutive year, the accreditation has been offered by the University of Law at Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in Versailles, France with the support of the Association...

Europe Express, Exclusive

United We Stand, Divided We Fall

October 22, 2019December 20, 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 together...

Europe Express, Special for the Web

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

October 17, 2019January 14, 2020 /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...

Europe, Europe Express, Exclusive

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...

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