Mastering Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing

Introduction

Unfortunately, this is a complex book about a simple subject. It’s full of laws and regulations, policies and procedures, checklists and diagrams, international standards and a large range of examples and case studies, both real and synthesised. That’s how this subject is. Armies of politicians, regulators and Compliance Officers have spent the past 25 years or so erecting the edifice you see described here. They have attended meetings and conventions, persuaded sceptical colleagues about the need for action, drafted and amended long pieces of legislation and sat in parliaments and legislatures around the world late into the early morning, debating the smallest amendments. They have, together, produced hundreds of thousands of pages ...