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                                                BNP Paribas fined CNY2.7m in China for CDD and reporting breaches
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    
                                                    The Chinese subsidiary of BNP Paribas will pay a CNY2.7million (US$378,500) fine after People’s Bank of China investigators found thatcustomer identification was not always verified and large and suspicioustransactions sometimes not reported. The..
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                UK lockdown - day seventy
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                UK lockdown - day seventy-one
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                UK lockdown - day seventy-two
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                        03 June 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                UK lockdown - day seventy-three
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                        04 June 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                UK lockdown - day seventy-four
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
                                                        05 June 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                UK lockdown - day seventy-seven
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                Civil recovery and tax evasion: a winning combination?
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    John Binns (+44 (0)20 7430 2277, jbinns@bcl.com) and Harry Travers (+44 (0)20 7430 2277, htravers@bcl.com) are partners at BCL Solicitors LLP, specialising in financial crime, money laundering and sanctions.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                UK lockdown - day seventy-eight
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                UK lockdown - day seventy-nine
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                        10 June 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                UK lockdown - day eighty
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                Conflict costs - Syria
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    
                                                    As Syria enters its tenth year of civil war, the economy is in tatters, foreign currency is in short supply, and sanctions have not only been renewed, the United States has introduced additional, secondary measures. Funds still flow, but how? Paul..
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                UK lockdown - day eighty-one
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                Eyes always open – KYC 'now'
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Dermot Corrigan (+44 7710 266333, dermot.corrigan@smartkyc.com) is CEO of smartKYC.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                An altogether different order – quantum computing threat & defence
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    
                                                    The ability to be in two places at once, albeit at particle level, while not measurable, as it will affect the outcome, may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but quantum computing, which harnesses the theoretical physics, is hard fact, finds..
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                UK lockdown - day eighty-four
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
                                                        15 June 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                UK lockdown - day eighty-five
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                        16 June 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                UK lockdown - day eighty-six
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                Commerzbank London fined UK£37.8 million for nearly five years of AML breaches
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    
                                                    The London branch of German lender Commerzbank is to pay a UK£37,805,400 penalty after the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) found widespread AML failings in its know your customer (KYC) and monitoring framework between 23 October 2012 and 29..
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                        18 June 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                UK lockdown - day eighty-seven
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                        18 June 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                AML and solicitors: time to root out the bad apples?
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    John Binns(+44 (0)20 7430 2277,jbinns@bcl.com) is a partner at BCL Solicitors LLP in London, specialising in AML compliance and enforcement.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                        18 June 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                JAK Medlemsbank fined SEK1.6m for risk assessment, CDD failings
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    
                                                    JAK Medlemsbank, the Swedish cooperative bank, has been fined SEK1.6 million (US$170,000) by Finansinspektionen for “significant deficiencies” in its AML/CFT risk assessment and customer due diligence practice, including record-keeping.In many..
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                UK lockdown - day eighty-eight
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
                                                        19 June 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                UK lockdown - day ninety-one
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
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                                                UK lockdown - day ninety-two
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                Ownership unlocked – jurisdictional keys to criminal property
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    
                                                    ‘Safe as houses’ may still apply to criminal funds invested in real estate in many parts of the world but laws and enforcement authorities are beginning to recover lost ground. Jonathan Dyson reports.New initiatives internationally aim to tackle..
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                UK lockdown - day ninety-three
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
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                                                UK lockdown - day ninety-four
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
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                                                SEB fined SKr1bn over weak AML in Baltics
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    
                                                    SEB, the Swedish lender controlled by the Wallenberg family of industrialists, has been fined SKr1 billion (US$107m) by the Finansinspektionen for deficiencies in anti-money laundering controls in its Baltic operations. [1]The financial markets..
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
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                                                UK lockdown – day ninety-five
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
                                                        26 June 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                UK lockdown - day ninety-eight
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
                                                        29 June 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                UK lockdown - day ninety-nine
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
                                                        30 June 2020
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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