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Walk the talk and fight illicit flows
Credit: Images_of_Money, Flickr Creative Commons A hornet’s nest has been stirred up by the leak of millions of financial files by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in...
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The Royal stamp of Inclusion
Financial Inclusion advocate Queen Maxima pushed the FATF to consider financial inclusion (Credit: Haags Uitburo) Monarchs seem mostly untroubled by financial concerns, but Queen Maxima of the...
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When ‘Scandals’ Bring Good News
The very word “scandal” has a negative connotation. The dictionary definition says scandals are “associated with a disgraceful action or circumstance, or an offense caused by fault or misdeed” – and...
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The Piracy Money Cycle: ‘Trickle-Round Economics’
Sitting in a safe house, an ocean away, three former pirates reflect on their past lives as ”footsoldiers” aboard skiffs preparing to attack unsuspecting cargo vessels off the Horn of Africa. Our...
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Settling with Justice
Settlements in cases of foreign bribery cases are big news and growing. More and more countries are allowing these procedures, and their law enforcement agencies are using them forcefully in their...
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Getting the measure of asset recovery
The OECD this week released a report measuring how its member countries are performing in their efforts to stem illicit financial flows (IFF). While much attention is likely to focus on the chapters...
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Assessing the Assessors: From Form to Substance
How good are the experts at evaluating countries’ anti-money-laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) systems? That was the central question in a new report released last week by...
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Cracking down on the insidious impact of organized crime in Fragile and...
Drug smuggling and human trafficking, money laundering, the illegal exploitation of natural resources and wildlife, the sale of fraudulent medicines or counterfeit goods: They're all criminal...
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Vulnerable yet invaluable: Protecting our patrimony by safeguarding art,...
The spectacular recovery of a long-missing painting by Pablo Picasso – a canvas that had been stolen more than a decade ago, in a daring museum theft in Paris – offers a vivid reminder of the illicit...
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Piggybanks for plunder: Corrupt cash flows to Global Cities, requiring...
Corrupt cash from secretive international sources – deliberately funneled through ‘shell companies’ to conceal the money’s illicit origins – is often used to buy ‘Towers of Secrecy’ in leading global...
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When terms like “criminal conspiracy” and “felony” appear in confessions and plea bargains, the criminal-justice system sits up and takes notice. And when the confessed felons are some of the world’s...
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Forging the link between inclusion and integrity in Ethiopia
How can financial inclusion and financial integrity policies complement each other? That question was addressed in a report recently released looking at the state of Ethiopia’s anti-money...
View ArticleWorld Bank launches survey to assess the impact of de-risking on remittances
An increasing number of anecdotal reports about banks’ de-risking remittances service providers and the negative impact these actions have had on the industry have been circulating within the...
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Remittances and integrity: how to exist in harmony
Page also available: French, Spanish How do countries ensure that remittance service providers – who are often serving the world’s poorest people – mitigate their risk for abuse by money launderers...
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De-risking impedes access to finance for non-profit organizations
If you’ve opened a bank account in the last few years, you likely had to answer a bunch of more or less intrusive questions about yourself, your background and why you wanted to open the account....
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