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: FATF
The law(yer) is an ass
AML efforts tend to move in one direction: more, greater, stronger, bigger – whatever the right adjective may be. Occasionally we see an unwinding (as when many jurisdictions removed general insurance business from the AML family) but for the most … Continue reading
FATF 1, EU 0
The Fourth Money Laundering Directive brought us many delights, including Article 9: “Third-country jurisdictions which have strategic deficiencies in their national AML/CFT regimes that pose significant threats to the financial system of the Union (‘high-risk third countries’) shall be identified … Continue reading
Facecrook?
Here’s what I have read about Facebook Libra: According to the Financial Times, it is “a new global digital currency backed by assets and supported by more than two dozen companies ranging from Visa and Mastercard to Lyft and Spotify”. … Continue reading
The plain un-SAR-nished truth
Remember when Hugh Grant was PM in “Love Actually” and he found out that his tea-lady’s ex-boyfriend had been nasty to her and offered to have the scoundrel assassinated by the “absolutely charming” SAS? “Ruthless trained killers are just a … Continue reading
Cleaning house
Last week I attended an event at the elegant Whitehall premises of RUSI at which they launched “No Rest for the Wicked”, their report into what the UK’s next steps should be, now that we have (to quote the modest … Continue reading
Posted in AML, Due diligence, Money laundering
Tagged AML, beneficial ownership, Companies House, disclosure, due diligence, FATF, financial crime, government, legislation, money laundering, publications, research, RUSI
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Big worries about small accounts
The news has been full in recent days of the financial activities of the “super-rich” and fiscally sophisticated. (That’s my phrase, that last bit, but I can imagine it catching on. Who knows: we might even start talking about the … Continue reading
Curiosity might save the cat
One of the management buzz-phrases that seems to be staying the course is “tone from the top”. In the world of AML, the tone from the top has in fact originated at the bottom: first we had MLROs beating the … Continue reading
Who’s on the FATF’s naughty step?
So the FATF’s latest take on their list of naughty countries – or, more properly, those jurisdictions with strategic AML/CFT deficiencies – is out. Their latest plenary meeting, this time in Busan in Korea, ended on 24 June 2016, and … Continue reading
Bad little bywords
Thank heavens for alliteration, I say. In today’s crowded, tweeting, 24-hour news world, we don’t have to say “the leak of eleven million documents from the offices of law firm Mossack Fonseca”, but instead can save valuable milliseconds by referring … Continue reading
Posted in Bribery and corruption, Money laundering
Tagged corruption, FATF, financial crime, fraud, money laundering, Panama Papers, PEP, proceeds of crime, tax evasion
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Credit where credit is due
I’m about to get onto my soap-box again, so you have been warned. Last week I mentioned the recently-published INCSR 2016, with its summaries of jurisdictions of primary money laundering concern. In a comment on that, a Guernsey reader has … Continue reading
