“Faith, Hope and Trickery” – the fifth Sam Plank novel
New piggy in the sty! This one is for UK estate agents
Collection of columns: “Susan in the City: The Cambridge News Years”
“Portraits of Pretence” – the fourth Sam Plank novel
Sam speaks! New audiobook of “Fatal Forgery”
“Worm in the Blossom” – the third Sam Plank novel
AML for NEDs in five editions: Guernsey, Isle of Man, International, Jersey and UK
AML books for UK staff
AML books for Guernsey staff
AML books for Jersey staff
AML books for Gibraltar staff
“The Man in the Canary Waistcoat” – the second Sam Plank novel
“Fatal Forgery” – the first Sam Plank novel
Edward’s adventures now out in 6-part e-format
Another good read
Monthly Archives: January 2018
AML 1, bitcoin 0
There have been acres of newsprint (and the digital equivalent) written in recent months about the long-term future of bitcoin in particular and cryptocurrencies in general. The value of bitcoin, for instance, is going through the roof, and then back … Continue reading
Cleaning house for estate agents
Just to raise the tone of this blog a little, I’d like to start today with a quotation from Voltaire’s 1759 satirical novel “Candide”: “Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les … Continue reading
A laundering own goal
People sometimes ask me how I can bear to stick with just one subject for over twenty years – yes, that’s how long I have been AML-ing. And I simply say that although the subject remains the same, and indeed … Continue reading
Posted in AML, Money laundering, Training
Tagged AML, communication, due diligence, financial crime, fraud, money laundering, proceeds of crime, training
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Stubborn as a…
For those who roll their eyes when I explain my job, and say that it’s all a load of government-sanctioned nonsense to appease the do-gooders (yes, I’ve heard all of that), Santander has done some handy research. Big Red (other … Continue reading
Posted in AML, Money laundering, Organised crime
Tagged AML, communication, due diligence, financial crime, fraud, money laundering, money mule, mule, organised crime, proceeds of crime, research
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Tax is a feminist issue
I have written before about the interesting differences between the genders when it comes to financial crime. And now there is a new study, published in the December 2017 issue of the Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics (surely you … Continue reading
Posted in Legislation, Money laundering, Tax
Tagged financial crime, money laundering, tax evasion
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A rap on the online knuckles
AML regulation of the gambling sector in the UK is complicated; even I (writing as an AML obsessive) am sometimes confused about who is in and who is out. However, one sector that is most definitely in is online gambling, … Continue reading
Posted in AML, Due diligence, Money laundering
Tagged AML, due diligence, financial crime, Gambling Commission, government, ML Regulations, money laundering, proceeds of crime, SARs, suspicion
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Christmas concord and concensus
Experienced MLROs and other professional AML-ers will be familiar with the pattern of EU AML Directives: in essence, you get a new one every decade. But thanks to the attacks in Paris in November 2015, and the subsequent realisation that … Continue reading
