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Regulation

It’s no secret that fighting financial crime depends on knowing your customers. Yet current AML/CFT regulations provide merely a starting point for this. The emphasis regulators place on taking a risk-based approach leaves much to an individual financial institution’s best […]

The EU has long tried to determine which predicate offenses drive money laundering. With the latest anti-money laundering directive set to be transposed into law in December 2020, many new predicate offenses will need to be monitored by regulated businesses—screening […]

We finished the first part of this blog with the introduction of 3AMLD in 2005. At this point, the EU had in place an already extensive framework of AML and CFT obligations, including Customer Due Diligence (CDD)/Know Your Customer (KYC) […]

AML history

Over the last twelve months, the European Union (EU) has been considering how to renew its attack on money laundering, following a wave of anti-money laundering (AML) control failures at Northern European banks and linked scandals about potential illicit flows […]

A Guide to the 6th Anti-Money Laundering Directive Since 1991, the EU’s strategy for tackling money laundering has centered on the transposition of a succession of Anti-Money Laundering Directives into the national laws of the member states. 5AMLD extended existing AML […]

6AMLD

Following the succession of five previous anti-money laundering directives (AMLDs), the 6th Money Laundering Directive reinforces the foundations of the European Union’s anti-money laundering and combatting the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) framework. The first AMLD came into force in 1991 […]

geographic targeting order

What is a Geographic Targeting Order? Geographic targeting orders (GTOs) are a tool used by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to detect and prevent money laundering. GTOs impose AML requirements on obligated firms, in addition to standard Bank Secrecy […]

fatf blacklists and greylists

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an intergovernmental organization that monitors global money laundering and terrorist financing trends. The FATF collaborates with its member states and regional organizations to develop a legal, regulatory, and operational framework for combating these […]

Bank Secrecy Act - BSA

The Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) is the United States’ most important anti money laundering regulation: banks and other financial institutions must ensure they meet the compliance obligations it involves. Introduced in 1970, the Bank Secrecy Act requires financial institutions to […]

In recent years, Singapore has seen rapid developments in its FinTech sector. The government and the country’s regulator – the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) – have made significant efforts to ensure the country’s regulatory framework keeps up with this […]