Traces how Mexico’s anti‐money laundering regime developed, under international pressure, since 1989; the country is considered one of the top 20 centres of laundered money. Outlines the suspicious transactions reporting system in the form of a diagram, and describes how the Secretariat of...

Deals with the background and main content of the three rules adopted in January 2003 by the People’s Bank of China (PBC): Rules for Anti‐Money Laundering by Financial Institutions, Administrative Rules for the Reporting of Large‐Value and Suspicious RMB (Renminbi) Payment Transactions,...

Focuses on offshore banking secrecy and how it affects the operation of anti‐money laundering endeavours like the Financial Action Task Force (FATF); it prevents onshore countries from knowing how offshore financial centre (OFC) jurisdictions control drug trafficking, terrorism and other...

Describes briefly the measures taken by Japan as part of the fight against terrorism; Japan was a founding member of the Financial Action Task Force. Outlines the provisions of the Law for Criminalisation of the Financing of Terrorism, passed in 2002, which criminalises terrorist financing even...

Deals with the relationship between migratory flows and financial flows from the viewpoint of economic analysis. Points out the differences between migrants and host populations as this relates to the demand for banking and financial services, for instance the importance to migrants of...