“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: terrorist financing
A welcome divorce
A significant change was made to my AML-ish life on 26 October 2005: on that date appeared the Third Money Laundering Directive, with the addition of “and terrorist financing” to its title, whereas First and Second had been pure money … Continue reading
Save our SARs
I am a fan of the philosophy of SARs: I think it is correct that businesses handling client money should be obliged to report to the authorities if they suspect that that money is the proceeds of crime or connected … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged AML, banking, Hong Kong, investigation, legislation, money laundering, National Crime Agency, NCA, reporting, SARs, suspicious activity report, terrorist financing
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The word from on high
Right, let’s get ready for a quick test of AML TLA [three-letter acronym]: what do the RBA, BRA, RAS and NRA all have in common? Bravo for shouting out “the letter R” – standing, of course, for Risk. As in: … Continue reading
Maman’s the word
I know that AML and CFT go together. I’m not convinced that they belong together, but I am swimming against the tide, which seems to favour putting all financial crime into the same category. And so I am careful to … Continue reading
Posted in Due diligence, Terrorist financing
Tagged AML, due diligence, financial crime, MLRO, terrorist financing
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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
Lifelong learning
One of the benefits of the AML/CFT mutual evaluation regime is its reiterative nature – the fact that countries are visited, given a report with suggestions for improvement, and then revisited. Between visits, governments submit progress reports to keep the … Continue reading
The path paved with bad intentions
Last week it was announced that Florindo Flores – better known as Comrade Artemio, the last original leader of the Peruvian communist party (Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path) – had been sentenced by a court in Lima to life in … Continue reading
Clandestine legislation
There I was on Thursday morning, my whole day carefully planned ahead of me (including two McVitie’s dark chocolate digestives at elevenses – something to aim for), when wham! I opened a news feed and there, nestled unobtrusively in its … Continue reading
Fowl play
What do you call a turkey that steps back from the precipice? A wise old bird, that’s what. Long story short, at the October 2012 meeting of the Financial Action Task Force, a statement was issued about Turkey and its … Continue reading
Posted in AML, Legislation, Money laundering
Tagged AML, equivalence, FATF, Financial Action Task Force, financial crime, legislation, money laundering, terrorist financing
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I hate money laundering 