Monthly Archives: January 2021

Fishy business

For years, the AML community has been trying to get their message heard at the highest levels of the regulated sector.  Business schools have various terms for it, from “tone from the top” to “business culture” to “the rotting fish” … Continue reading

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All in the mind

I have a daily Google alert that sends me anything containing the phrase “money laundering”, and earlier this month it sent me down the rabbit-hole of reading about “mental money laundering”.  It’s not – as sometimes happens – the simple … Continue reading

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Piggy’s Progress

At the end of each year I do a stock-take of my piggy sales – by which I mean, I add up how many copies of I have sold of my two suites of AML books for non-exec directors (i.e. … Continue reading

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Head, brick wall, etc.

I first started designing and delivering AML training in 1996.  That’s a full quarter-century ago.  And can you imagine how many times I have said, over those twenty-five years, things like “check regularly for PEPs – regulators are hot on … Continue reading

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