Tag Archives: research

The AML rank and file

Posted on April 26, 2017 by

So here we are, with the final piece of analysis of our AML survey.  The last question was the most complicated: I asked “There are various things that could be done to change the way we approach AML (in principle, … Continue reading →

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Cloudy, with a chance of optimism

Posted on April 21, 2017 by

I’m not an early adopter, as you probably know: my blog came late to the game (started in 2011, although I hope I have made up for it since then with my doggedness), and my website is rather old-fashioned (I’m … Continue reading →

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The law is just the law

Posted on April 18, 2017 by

For my next survey question, I moved into the realms of fantasy (or at least, I hope it’s fantasy – with Brexit, nothing’s certain any more): “If all the AML obligations were removed from legislation and regulation, what would you … Continue reading →

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Power to the AML people

Posted on April 12, 2017 by

Now that I have whetted your appetites with that first course of participants in my little AML survey, let’s move on to the first meat course: why you do what you do.  The survey question was: “Being totally honest, please … Continue reading →

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So that’s who you are!

Posted on April 7, 2017 by

Well, that was quite an adventure!  My first ever SurveyMonkey survey – and how generous you all were with your time.  I ran my little survey for only two weeks, and in that time 215 – 215! – of you … Continue reading →

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Queen of all I survey

Posted on March 20, 2017 by

I’ve been doing this AML malarkey now for a quarter of a century.  It was never the grand plan, but it seems that I have devoted my working life to keeping criminal money out of the financial and related systems.  … Continue reading →

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Bollards to money laundering

Posted on October 5, 2016 by

Like most people, I am a (very) amateur psychologist, in that I often ponder on why people do certain things.  I live in Cambridge, and the local council tries to keep traffic out of the very centre of the historic … Continue reading →

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In praise of the lecture

Posted on May 24, 2016 by

I’ve had an epiphany.  I’ve been training people for a quarter of a century now – longer, if you count the innocent young minds once given over to me by the National Curriculum – and I’ve realised something important.  I … Continue reading →

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Panama: a drop in the ocean

Posted on May 19, 2016 by

So the Panama Papers are Out There.  Hands up who has gone into the database and searched on their own name….  Of course I did, with such an unusual name – not that I have ever done anything myself, you … Continue reading →

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Make mine a Jaffa Cake

Posted on May 13, 2016 by

I wonder if anyone has ever invited Rory Sutherland to be an MLRO?  I ask only because several of his recent Wiki Man columns in the Spectator magazine, although ostensibly about (I think) psychology as it relates to business and … Continue reading →

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