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countries or goods. Banks and other financial enterprises thus need risk management and mitigation processes to stop illegal … are therefore not easily accessible resources for banks fighting money laundering. This paper discusses the current state … of the art in anti-money laundering, mandatory know-your-customer screenings and its challenges in German banks involved …
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Policy programs on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) have largely called for preventive measures like keeping record of financial transactions and reporting suspicious ones. In this survey study, we analyze the extent of global money laundering and...
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In this paper the financial means of international (mostly Islamistic) terror organizations are analysed. First, some short remarks about the organization of international terror organizations are made. Second and in a much more detailed way a literature review is provided about the financing of...
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The recent wave of terrorist attacks has increased the attention paid to money laundering activities. Using several methodologies, this paper investigates empirically the determinants of money laundering and its regulation in over 80 countries by assembling a cross-country dataset on proxies for...
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ideologically motivated account closures are vanishingly rare. Nevertheless, debanking is a problem in the UK. In 2021/22, UK banks … discovering whether they really are criminals would exceed the value of their business. So, banks close their accounts - even … though most of those people are innocent. Other customers are also harmed. Complying with AML regulations costs UK banks £34 …
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The current review systematically synthesizes existing literature to provide a comprehensive overview of the nature of financial crimes in Africa and their impact on economic growth. We adopted the PRISMA protocol to identify 128 papers from the Scopus database; which were analyzed using MS...
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Scholarly and policy literature has yet to provide a systematic analysis on how criminal organizations launder money beyond descriptions of who conducts this illegal activity and the existing types and practices for laundering the proceeds of crime. This article seeks to bridge the divide of two...
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What impact do past experiences have on the expectation formation of banks? This article analyses the risk management … the likelihood of credit defaults and forced banks to implement new strategies of risk assessment. The Herstatt failure of … 1974 triggered a series of new regulations, partly based on initiatives of the banks themselves. After the sovereign debt …
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The determinants of default risk of banks in emerging economies have so far received inadequate attention in the … the economy. Public sector banks have shown significant performance in containing bad debts. Private banks have continued … banks, apart from other accepted determinants of profitability, asset size has no significant impact on profitability. …
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indicate that not only small banks, but instate and more particularly one bank holding company banks devote more of their … assets to small business and farm loans. Banks owned by out-of-state holding companies do not. Low to moderately branched … banks are also active in these markets. In this respect the smaller, more simply structured bank may possess a relative …
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