-- 1 Financial Crime and The Law: Identifying and Mitigating Risks. -- 2 The Crime-Crypto Nexus: Nuancing Risk across Crypto-Crime Transactions. -- 3 Financing Environmental Crime: Financial Sector Complicity in Global Deforestation and Opportunities for Regulatory Intervention. -- 4 Weeding Out...

The working paper was drafted to meet the 31 August 2020 deadline of the Financial Action Task Force's public consultation process relating to the extension of the risk-based approach to proliferation financing. The paper draws primarily on recommendations made in our research papers over the...

Mobile money holds great financial inclusion promise, but also poses financial integrity challenges. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) - the intergovernmental global anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) standard-setting body - expressed support for financial...

The FATF Recommendations set international standards regarding client identification by financial institutions and designated non-financial businesses and professions for anti-money laundering (“AML”) and combating of terrorist financing (“CFT”) purposes. The FATF standards regarding...

Since 2014, the policy focus on large-scale bank account closures of remittance service providers – generally called ‘de-risking' – intensified internationally as well as in Australia. While the dilemma of these providers is the result of a complex combination of factors, money laundering...

In 2012, the University of Washington School of Law held a conference to examine the impact of the 2012 Revised Financial Action Task Force standards for combating money laundering and combating terrorism and proliferation financing on the use of mobile money in developing countries as a...

The potential for criminals and terrorism financiers to secure lucrative government contracts poses a risk to Australia’s anti-money laundering, anti-corruption and counter-terrorism financing objectives. This article compares the customer due diligence measures that banks are required to...

During the 1990s economic crime began to spiral in South Africa. This phenomenon coincided with the country's transition to a democratic state. The article outlines a number of steps that South Africa took to align its laws with international standards and to improve the legal tools of law...

Financial regulators are challenged to respond to the innovation opportunities presented by financial technology (fintech). Current rules are not necessarily sufficient or effective to adequately regulate new business models and new products relating to innovations such as crypto assets or...