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Category: The Wall Street Journal

Singapore tightens up

Nick Kochan February 14, 2017 Money Laundering / Publications / The Wall Street JournalLeave a comment

Singapore is set to beef up its guidelines against money laundering and terrorist finance. The country’s regulator has announced plans to revise its guidelines regulating financial institutions and the fight money laundering and the funding of terrorism. These will complement the government’s latest laws, passed in 2002, to combat criminal …

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Private bankers and politically exposed persons

Nick Kochan February 14, 2017 Money Laundering / The Wall Street JournalLeave a comment

Private bankers need to know as much as possible about the customers that pass through their doors, and the wealth that they carry. So each customer who wants to open an account is subjected to considerable processes of due diligence. If the customer is a businessman who has made his …

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Hong Kong at Laundering’s Cutting Edge

Nick Kochan January 5, 2017 Money Laundering / The Wall Street JournalLeave a comment

Hong Kong and Singapore face a money laundering clampdown in the next few months as local banking organisations and regulatory authorities launch rulebooks bringing local rules in line with international standards. These standards are recommended by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the Basel Committee. Some Asian financial institutions …

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Politically exposed persons

Nick Kochan January 5, 2017 Money Laundering / The Wall Street JournalLeave a comment

Private bankers need to know as much as possible about the customers that pass through their doors, and the wealth that they carry. So each customer who wants to open an account is subjected to considerable processes of due diligence. If the customer is a businessman who has made his …

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Anti-money laundering: Latin America

Nick Kochan December 5, 2016 Money Laundering / The Wall Street JournalLeave a comment

published in The Wall Street Journal April 11 2005 The creation, movement and spending of illegal money represents a greater challenge for bankers in Latin and South America than possibly anywhere in the world. The three-fold problem of pervasive illegal drugs production and selling, political corruption and poorly resourced regulatory …

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