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Focuses on Guernsey’s financial services industry as an example of a financial intermediary: this includes banks, fund managers, investment advisers, insurance brokers, companies and managers, and fiduciaries like company directors, company service providers and trustees. Describes the...
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Reviews past developments in information sharing for securities regulation, including cases where the US Securities …
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Introduces the UK Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA), a determined effort to modernise financial regulation … Tribunal as an appellate channel. Shows how the Act represents a shift from self‐regulation to statutory regulation, remedying … European Convention on Human Rights. Compares the FSMA with the Canadian approach to the questions of balancing regulation and …
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Comments briefly on the OECD report on Guernsey as an Offshore Financial Centre, one which is emphatically not a Non‐Cooperative Country or Territory. Focuses on the misuse of corporate vehicles for illicit purposes, and outlines the main objectives of the Report to ensure proper access and...
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Describes briefly how France has recently adopted stricter rules for compliance in the fight against money laundering, and the role played by regulatory authorities in improving compliance; France was the first country to implement the FATF Recommendations in 2001, it has widened the scope of...
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Introduces the measures taken in South America’s Spanish, Portuguese and French speaking countries, and in the Spanish‐speaking Caribbean, to create a framework for combating money laundering; despite this, the outcome has been poor in terms of money laundering cases prosecuted, and the...
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Describes the 19‐point code of corporate governance produced in 1991 by the Cadbury Committee, which was set up by the Stock Exchange, the Financial Reporting Council and the accounting profession; the aim was to improve the standard of corporate governance in Britain. Outlines its narrow...
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Shows how far Colombia has come in achieving its aim of combating contraband, which is not only an illegal activity which reduces fiscal revenue and causes unemployment, but is also linked to money laundering; losses due to tax evasion can reach $1 billion per year. Outlines the strategies...
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Discusses in a wideranging way the background to official regulation of markets, going back to 17th century Britain …
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Examines how the Wolfsberg Anti‐Money Laundering Principles came into being after the first meeting in October 1999, their development and the possible future of the Wolfsberg group of banks. Describes the background to the drive for harmonisation of private banking practice combating money...
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