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Money Laundering Bulletin

Grand ambition – the UK Action Plan for AML & CTF

As a spirited response to the call for action that was October 2015’s UK National Risk Assessment for ML and TF – it spelt out, with commendable honesty, intelligence deficiencies around, especially, high-end money laundering, as well as law enforcement inattention and patchy supervision [1] – the Home Office Action Plan for AML & CTF [2] in an era of austerity would be hard to fault. Published on 21 April, it has clear priorities: stronger public-private partnership, policing should be more effective, supervision overhauled and overseas reach extended. There are 19 actions, all dated or ongoing. So, where’s the catch? There always is one but let’s look at what’s on the map first.

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