Examines the involvement of the banking sector in money laundering over the last two decades, in particular the relationship between banks and money laundering when governments’ attitudes vary and change. Describes the design of the research, which uses multiple regression, Chow and dummy...

Purpose – To gauge the extent to which the global financial system is anti‐money laundering (AML)/countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) prepared by analysing and comparing the AML/CFT systems of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) members with countries belonging to regional AML...

Describes how the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has blacklisted countries which it believes provide laws and practices conducive to money laundering; this blacklisting queries the legitimacy of the country or jurisdiction and its right to conduct financial business in the global...

Outlines the Recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Anti‐Money Laundering Recommendations, which go well beyond the 1996 version: they are prescriptive and detailed, and they expand reporting bodies to many non‐financial businesses, focusing on the high‐risk areas of...

Purpose – To highlight the compliance issues which face gambling entities with the implementation of the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF's) 2003 Forty Recommendations Design/methodology/approach – To determine the gambling sector's attitudes towards the FATF's new anti‐money...

Purpose – To review the reported compliance levels of third round mutual evaluations with a view to determining any change or differences in compliance levels for Financial Action Task Force (FATF) member countries following the updating of FATF's Forty Recommendations in 2003 and the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine whether countries are implementing enhanced customer due diligence (CDD) for financial transactions with the politically connected. Design/methodology/approach – Public information in relation to ratification of the UN anti‐corruption...