Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to better understand the relationship between accounting and auditing quality and the perceived level of corruption. Design/methodology/approach – This relationship is studied by performing a cross‐country analysis using public data to measure...

Begins with the undoubted benefits of suspicious activity reports (SARs) in identifying and indicting terrorist financing schemes and detecting money laundering trends like abuse of telephones card sales and money order transmitters; but comparative analysis of anti‐money laundering efforts in...

Considers how much terrorist financing is done through banks; information is scarce. Outlines the typologies of terrorist funding issued by the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group (JMLSG) and the Financial Action Task force (FATF): donations based on the zakat, and criminality in the forms of...

Traces how Mexico’s anti‐money laundering regime developed, under international pressure, since 1989; the country is considered one of the top 20 centres of laundered money. Outlines the suspicious transactions reporting system in the form of a diagram, and describes how the Secretariat of...

Describes the background to the Prohibition on Money Laundering Law, 5760‐2000, which criminalises money laundering and reflects the fact that Israel had become a haven for money launderers in the preceding decade. Lists offences under this law, obligations imposed on providers of financial...

Deals with the background and main content of the three rules adopted in January 2003 by the People’s Bank of China (PBC): Rules for Anti‐Money Laundering by Financial Institutions, Administrative Rules for the Reporting of Large‐Value and Suspicious RMB (Renminbi) Payment Transactions,...

Focuses on offshore banking secrecy and how it affects the operation of anti‐money laundering endeavours like the Financial Action Task Force (FATF); it prevents onshore countries from knowing how offshore financial centre (OFC) jurisdictions control drug trafficking, terrorism and other...

Outlines laws in force before newly passed legislation; the cornerstone was the Confidentiality Act 1996, whose provision of confidentiality was noticed by the Financial Action Task Force when it issued its list of Non‐cooperative Countries and Territories in 2000. Summarises the new...

Describes briefly the measures taken by Japan as part of the fight against terrorism; Japan was a founding member of the Financial Action Task Force. Outlines the provisions of the Law for Criminalisation of the Financing of Terrorism, passed in 2002, which criminalises terrorist financing even...

Deals with the relationship between migratory flows and financial flows from the viewpoint of economic analysis. Points out the differences between migrants and host populations as this relates to the demand for banking and financial services, for instance the importance to migrants of...