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: government
So near and yet so far
At the end of June 2019, the UK’s Gambling Commission – one of our five-star AML regulators, getting top marks from users for both approachability and communication – published its 2018 money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessment. This examines … Continue reading
RUSI and the red team
Regular readers will know how I love “crisp” writing: writing that is clear, well-structured, unambiguous and just that little bit elegant. (Compare and contrast with most of the hurried, rambling and frankly inaccurate drivel that appears online these days.) Two … Continue reading
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
On their own authority
Over a two-decade career in AML, one of the things I have noticed is the “normalisation” of the terms “money laundering” and “AML”. When I first started out, I had to explain to everyone non-finance-y what money laundering was and … Continue reading
Exceeding slow
You remember the summer of ’98. The European Central Bank was founded in Brussels, Pete Sampras won the men’s singles title at Wimbledon, “Sex and the City” premiered on the telly – and Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha died at the … Continue reading
Posted in AML, Bribery and corruption, Money laundering
Tagged AML, asset forfeiture, bribery, corruption, financial crime, government, Jersey, money laundering, Nigeria, PEP, proceeds of crime, Sani Abacha
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Los Pinos of Sherwood Forest
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen – I bet you’re all humming now. And even though historians have suggested that our Robin was not quite the champion of the poor we choose to believe, the legend persists – … Continue reading
Asking for trouble
When Brexit is simply too, too depressing, I remind myself that in my own little world at least nothing much is changing. Cambridge – where I live – is as cosmopolitan and outward-looking as ever, and the Fifth Money Laundering … Continue reading
Posted in AML, Legislation, Money laundering
Tagged AML, financial crime, government, legislation, ML Regulations, MLD5, money laundering, proceeds of crime, risk-based approach
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Something good written by Committee
As you are surely aware, the UK is currently convulsed (almost to the point of turning itself inside out) by a frenzy of self-analysis. And AML has not escaped the mood of introspection: on 8 March 2019, the House of … Continue reading
Posted in AML, Money laundering, Supervision
Tagged AML, communication, financial crime, government, money laundering, PEP, research
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