This article addresses how the law has been clarified since Bank of Scotland v A Ltd,1 and how the law now reconciles the duties owed by banks to their customers and their obligations under anti-money laundering (AML) legislation. Additionally, empirical research undertaken by the second author...
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Suspicious transaction reporting (STR) is a cornerstone of the international Anti- Money Laundering/Combatting the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) framework. The evaluation of AML/CFT regimes is challenging, however, as the quality of STRs varies substantially between countries and little is known ...
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Banks should overlay the relevant Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism legislative elements once it has mapped out the risks it faces to ensure preventive measures on illegal activity are effective. Recent action by Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), Austral...
The regulator is looking into a money laundering case and checking whether a number of international and local banks correctly monitored clients' activity. Besides Credit Suisse, other firms mentioned in the report include UBS, Julius Baer, ICBC, UOB and Bank of China. ...
The revision of the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2009 was done to tighten enforcement and preventative measures to seal the lid on money laundering and the financing of terrorism—bringing the law into line with the standards of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). ...
The U.S. Postal Service issued a notice proposing to revise the Customer Privacy Act System of Records in order to reinforce compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act, anti-money laundering laws, and Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations. ...
“These issues may have been put on hold during the financial crisis, and now regulators can go back to focus on money-laundering and other compliance problems,” said Alma M. Angotti, a director at Navigant, a consulting firm that advises banks on complying with anti-money-laundering rules...
Although some of these misdeeds seem mild, like tax evasion, they also include money laundering for human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children. There are more than 25 million people in slavery, whose exploiters use the banking system to move money. Crimes also include scams that ...