“The Solo Squid: How to Run a Happy One-Person Business”
“Heir Apparent” – the sixth Sam Plank novel
FREE Official Guide to the Sam Plank Mysteries – sample chapters and glossary
New e-boxset of first three Sam Plank e-books! Click image to buy…
“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
Tag Archives: consent
Please hold – for six months
The Criminal Finances Bill is out, described in the Home Office press release as “legislation to tackle money laundering and corruption, recover the proceeds of crime and counter terrorist financing”. When it was at the consultation stage, I responded – … Continue reading →
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Tagged AML, consent, legislation, MLRO, money laundering, National Crime Agency, NCA, SARs, suspicion
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Taxing tax evasion
In this post we are getting right down to what a French friend of mine once called “the nitties and the gritties”, so thinking caps on, please. An MLRO has written to me with a vexing conundrum around consent concerning … Continue reading →
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Tagged consent, due diligence, financial crime, legislation, MLRO, proceeds of crime, Proceeds of Crime Act, suspicion, tax evasion
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Calling for consent
You know what a stickybeak I am – if anyone asks, even very quietly, for an opinion on anything to do with money laundering or AML, I’m in there. At the moment the UK government is running a very low-key … Continue reading →
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Tagged AML, consent, disclosure, due diligence, government, legislation, money laundering, SARs
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NCA gets tough on consent
Because I am such a structured sort of person myself (big excitement last week, for instance, when the 2015 wall planner went up), I very much like the UK’s consent timetable. That’s not what anyone else calls it, I daresay, … Continue reading →
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Tagged consent, disclosure, due diligence, financial crime, legislation, money laundering, National Crime Agency, NCA, SARs, suspicion
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A few tips about tipping-off
A couple of weeks ago, I promised you an occasional series of posts on the most frequently asked questions I get during AML training. I have already covered suspicion, so now it’s the turn of tipping-off. (For a start, I’m … Continue reading →
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Tagged communication, consent, disclosure, due diligence, legislation, ML Regulations, money laundering, tipping off, training
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Which law to break? Decisions, decisions…
Although I am not a lawyer, I enjoy the limited exposure I have to the law – it’s like trying to unpick a puzzle, making sure that you have completely understood all the requirements, down to the last sub-clause and … Continue reading →
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Tagged consent, disclosure, HM Treasury, legislation, ML Regulations, money laundering, SARs
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You say potato, I say implied consent
One of my favourite things about the work I do is the mental stimulation I get from deciphering and learning the AML legislation in various jurisdictions. (I know, I know: get a life.) All of the jurisdictions in which I … Continue reading →
I hate money laundering 