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What price AML now?
Timon Molloy, Editor (timon.molloy@informa.com)
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Standard Chartered pays US$327m in wire stripping settlement
US$3m off the mark, not bad: Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) will pay US$327m (not US$330m as earlier reported [1]) for systematically working round US sanctions between 2001 and 2007. The settlements announced yesterday [10 December..
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Black Tuesday for HSBC
HSBC, Europe’s biggest bank and now one of the largest banks in North America, has agreed to pay US authorities a record-breaking US$1.9 billion in relation to suspect accounts and transactions. Chris Hamblin reviews what went wrong.
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JPMorgan escapes fine for systemic AML breaches
AML professionals discuss the JPMorgan order on the www.moneylaunderingbulletin.com Linkedin group http://www. linkedin.com/groups/JPMorgan-BSA-AML-compliance-programs-3863227.S.205090517
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Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi exposed as wire stripper
In “reckless disregard [of] US sanctions”, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (BTMU) operated a documented process to exclude details of entities on the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) lists from payment messages, according to a US..
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Placement, layering, integration, blah, blah, blah
Unnecessary complexity clouds both the definition of money laundering and understanding of the role and capabilities of financial intelligence units, so limiting their potential contribution to the fight against crime, says Tristram Hicks . He contends that suspicion, too, is not arcane – it can be taught.
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Obama’s first term AML report: charges brought, tick; penalties, cross
Proactive enforcement and large fines undercut by deferred prosecution agreements and a marked lack of individual accountability, at least publicly: President Barack Obama’s first administration promised much but disappointed. There are reasons, though, to remain optimistic about his second term, says Alan Osborn .
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Tax crime, legal professional privilege & the Fourth Directive: a minefield for suspicion
Differing approaches to legal professional privilege across the 27 EU member states risk creating an unlevel playing field, at least, a minefield at worst, in suspicious activity reporting of tax crimes under the Fourth EU Money Laundering Directive. Jonathan Fisher QC explains.
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Flight of the naked mandarins
For some upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party life in the West holds greater allure but it takes money to settle in the style to which they desire to become accustomed. Mark Gao , in Beijing, explores the sources and conduits of these officials’ overseas wealth.
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An arrow straight to the heart
The Financial Services Authority may be going the way of all regulators (well, some) come April 2013 but it cannot hang up its quiver of Arrow supervisory visits [1] for the last time without letting fly one more at Radleys, the bank where Edward Jones is MLRO. He would have liked more than three working days to prepare but such is life in AML compliance. Sue Grossey monitors his team’s rising adrenalin.
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Vatican reforms – a test of faith
The Central Bank of Italy telegraphed its dissatisfaction with the Vatican’s progress towards compliance with international anti-money laundering standards on 1 January 2013 when it suspended all card payments in the world’s smallest country and instructed Deutsche Bank Italia, which manages electronic fund transfers for the city state, to cease processing transactions. Suspicions persist, certainly in the Italian financial sector, that the reforms are mere lip service. Keith Nuthall and Lee Adendoorf, in Lucca, Italy seek the truth.
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Financial Straits: China and Taiwan
Slowly, tentatively the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the People’s Republic of China [1] are overcoming their historic antipathy in recognition of mutual economic interest. Business means financial services and so heightened cross-border risk. David Coates reports from Taipei on the commercial opportunities and evident and emerging threats.
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Ten ways to spot a money launderer
Launderers are endlessly inventive – they need to be. Chris Hamblin highlights ten of their ploys; some you will know, but all?
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