Search Results - subject:"financial crime"

Using data analytics to distinguish legitimate and illegitimate shell companies

Tiwari, Milind; Gepp, Adrian; Kumar, Kuldeep - In: Journal of economic criminology 7 (2025), pp. 1-13

Shell companies can be a legitimate entity but can also been used for illicit activities such as money laundering. Users of shell companies have included illegal arms dealers, drug cartels, terrorists and cyber-criminals, as well as legitimate businesses. To assist in distinguishing between...

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Chat Bankman-Fried? : an exploration of LLM alignment in finance

Biancotti, Claudia; Camassa, Carolina; Coletta, Andrea; … - 2025

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The tale of the Baltics : experiences, challenges, and lessons from reforming their national Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs)

McNaughton, Katarzyna J. - In: Journal of economic criminology 5 (2024), pp. 1-14

The banking sector of three Baltic countries, i.e., Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, was abused by money laundering scandals between 2018 and 2020. The Danske Bank scandal was the largest one and, combined with the other scandals, inevitably triggered a heavy critique of national anti-money...

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Public sector financial reforms and performance of government entities in Nigeria

Oluwagbade, Oluyinka Isaiah; Jimba, Kareem Isiaka; … - In: International journal of economics and financial issues … 14 (2024) 6, pp. 327-338

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Socioeconomic consequences of corruption and financial crimes

Kulmie, Dayah Abdi; Hilif, Mohamud Dahir; Hussein, … - In: International journal of economics and financial issues … 13 (2023) 5, pp. 88-95

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Can competition law aid the United Kingdom in its fight against financial crime?

Johnson, Diana - In: Journal of economic criminology 2 (2023), pp. 1-14

This article investigates the laws used in the United Kingdom (UK) to enforce the financial crime of benchmark interest … increase deterrence for this financial crime by providing a wider range of enforcement tools to regulators. This article … enforce this financial crime will increase the deterrent effect of sanctions due to the wide range of significant enforcement …

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Cybercrime on the Ethereum blockchain

Hornuf, Lars; Momtaz, Paul P.; Nam, Rachel J.; Yuan, Ye - 2025

We examine how cybercrime impacts victims' risk-taking and returns. The results from our difference-in-differences analysis of a sample of victim and matched non-victim investors on the Ethereum blockchain are in line with prospect theory and suggests that victims increase their long-term total...

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Is financial stress a facilitating factor in cartel formation?

Huric-Larsen, Jesper Fredborg - In: Journal of economic criminology 7 (2025), pp. 1-9

It is well-known that failing to achieve key organizational goals may pressure managers to commit fraud, but can it be a facilitating factor in cartel formation as well? The purpose of this study is to understand if firms known to have been in a cartel were under financial stress in the period...

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Forensic accounting as an investigative tool : insights from the FTX and Qatargate

Dimitropoulos, Gerasimos; Reading, Michelle - In: Journal of economic criminology 7 (2025), pp. 1-20

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The size of money laundering and other illicit financial conduct for Italy

Giammatteo, Michele - 2025

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