From World Money Laundering Report Vol 1 No 1

What can a government department do when even major newspapers can't get its name right? Jim Sloan, FinCEN's new director, has walked into a situation where the USA's FIU has an identity crisis as well as a range of other problems. And FinCEN is far more than an FIU simpliciter

From World Money Laundering Report Vol 1 No 1 - October 1999

From World Money Laundering Report Vol. 1 No. 1
Published October 1999

Prediction: within five years, compliance will be at the centre of all financial services businesses in highly regulated markets, taking over from sales and marketing and even audit as the most important area of management of those businesses.

From World Money Laundering Report Vol 1 No 1 October 1999

The key to understanding the detection and prevention of money laundering is to keep it simple. The BASICS column explains the terminology of laundering and the laws, why things are done and everything everyone needs to understand so that the hows and whys of money laundering prevention systems make sense.

From World Money Laundering Report Vol 1 No 1
October 1999

A round-up of news stories from around the World plus some amusing bits.

From World Money Laundering Report Vol, 1 No. 1
October 1999

Offshore financial centres in the Caribbean have never been under any misapprehension about what onshore financial regulators think of them.

World Money Laundering Report Vol. 1 No. 1 - October 1999

The Financial Action Task Force needs to wake up or break up.

World Money Laundering Report Vol. 1 No. 1
October 1999

James F. Sloan, was appointed Director of The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network in April 1999. WMLR spoke to him in August in his first major face to face interview with a money laundering title.

World Money Laundering Report Vol. 1 No. 1
Editorial: October 1999

We are now into the third wave of money laundering prevention across the world. The first was more of a ripple:

From World Money Laundering Report Vol. 1, No. 1
October 1999

The Bank of New York story broke in the newspapers almost by accident, it seems. As the weeks have gone by, it appears that rivalry between various law enforcement agencies in the USA and elsewhere led to a lack of co-operation and information that would have helped one organisation being held back by others.

From the Editor:

Welcome to the first edition of World Money Laundering Report. In this issue, we have set the tone for the way that WMLR will work with you to raise the awareness of money laundering related issues in your organisation.