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• Contents: Introduction Part I: Money Laundering: Principles
• 1. Economics: The Supply Side
• 2. Economics: The Demand Side
• 3. International Economics Part II: Applied Money Laundering
• 4. Implementing Money Laundering
• 5. The Impact of Money Laundering Part III: Anti Money Laundering
• 6. Domestic Money Laundering Enforcement
• 7. International Enforcement Issues.
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The recent dramatic wave of terrorist attacks has further focussed worldwide attention on the money laundering phenomena. The objective of this book is to offer the first systematic analysis of the economics of money laundering and its connection with terrorism finance. The authors first present the general principles of money laundering. They go on to illustrate an institutional and empirical framework that is useful in evaluating the causes and effects of money laundering phenomena in the banking and financial markets. They also analyse the design of the national and international policies aimed at combating them. The book focuses on several crucial issues and offers an analysis of each, including modelling the behaviour and process of making dirty money appear clean, hiding the originally criminal or illegal source of the economic activity; demonstrating how the financing of terrorism resembles money-laundering in some respects and differs from it in others; explaining how the banking and financial industry can play a pivotal role for the development of the criminal sector as a preferential vehicle for money laundering; showing how schemes of international economics and of tax competition can be applied to black finance issues, claiming that competition for criminal money can lead to a race to the bottom; building up indicators of money laundering attractiveness among developed and emerging countries, with a particular attention on the role of the Offshore centres; and dealing with anti-money laundering and counter terrorism finance (AML-CTF) enforcement problems, with a focus on Europe and US. "Black Finance" will be a valuable and accessible tool for scholars and academics, principally in economics, though also in politics and law, as well as for regulators and supervisory institutions.
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"The Money Sink" tells the how, when and why of criminal and terrorist money laundering, the murky and ultra-secret world where the line between legitimate business and crime vanishes. In 1994, when Jeffrey Robinson, author of "The Laundrymen", first brought to the world's attention the problems of dirty money - revealing how otherwise legitimate lawyers, bankers, accountants and even governments were helping drug traffickers hide the proceeds of their crimes - he labelled money laundering the world's third largest business, estimating that at any given time there was around $300 billion circling the globe, looking to get clean. Now, in the sequel to "The Laundrymen", Robinson calculates that the dirty money business has doubled in less than ten years and is ever more sophisticated (law enforcement and concerned governments flounder in its wake) - and he lays the blame on the offshore world. In an eye-opening piece of investigative journalism, Robinson reveals the state of the art of business-as-crime worldwide. As vast profits are turned into seemingly legitimate money, lawyers, bankers, accountants, brokers and governments have sold out to the mob and terrorists learn the lessons too and use Western financial networks to finance attacks on those same systems.
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This is an issue of our quarterly journal Hume Papers on Public Policy - the journal of the David Hume Institute.
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On money-laundering both globally and in Egypt.

"Anti-Money Laundering Transaction Monitoring Systems Implementation is divided into 10 chapters, starting with high level concepts before narrowing towards actual implementation. All transaction monitoring scenarios are composed of a few common elements, and understanding these elements is crucial to achieving your goals. Chau will brings years of experience as a Technical Consultant to show the reader the ins-and-outs of implementing AML transaction monitoring. Topics covered include: Detecting anomalies in data. Known abnormal behavior Regulator's requirements, and In-depth insights into transaction monitoring techniques"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• The socio-legal framework
• The international law-making process
• The German law-making process : tracing legislative intents
• The doctrinal legal debate on Article 261 of the German Criminal Code
• Data on the implementation of the anti-money laundering regime
• Opinions on the anti-money laundering regime : the implementation of the law from the perspective of legal actors and experts
• Conclusions.

In the aftermath of recent multiple leaks such as the Panama Papers, the Swiss leaks, the Luxleaks, and the Bahama leaks, this book offers an interesting view on the underlying conflictinginterests that impede the adoption of more effective legislation to stop money launderingby way of the financial system.The central position of the book is that the declared goals underlying the criminalization ofmoney laundering have not been fulfilled. The effectiveness of the anti-money launderingregime in Germany is assessed by examining the indirect effects, collateral consequences, and positive interpretations of the law in action and of the law inaction; reducing the issueto a question of symbolic effectiveness does not reflect the complexity of the matter. What isdemonstrated, is that the goals attributed to the regime were too ambitious, and that a lowerdegree of effectiveness has been accepted in order to balance the inherent political, economicand financial conflicting interests.Unlike other volumes focusing on this issue, this book deals with the implementation of thelegislation and the consequences thereof, and is primarily aimed at legal sociologists, sociologyof law researchers, criminal lawyers, criminologists with an interest in white collar crime andpolitical scientists studying measures against illicit financial flows and the concrete implementationof anti-money laundering laws. The book will be of interest to both internationalpolicymakers and consultants as well as their counterparts in Germany for instance workingon improving the instruments to fight organized crime and prevent the financing ofterrorism through money laundering.The complexity of the anti-money laundering regime and all the variables are exhaustivelyand critically reviewed in the assessment, thereby providing complete instructions for futurelegislative steps. The case study regarding the situation in Germany maximizes readers' insightsinto concrete effects of the implementation of international anti-money laundering standardsat a national level, and the opinions of professionals working in the field and of experts on thelaw-making process are also illuminating. Moreover, the book equips non-German speakerswith the information needed to deal with the extensive German legal scholarly production onarticle 261 of the German criminal code and the current internal political debate on the matter.Verena Zoppei is a Fellow Researcher at the International Security Division of the GermanInstitute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin.
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Money laundering; economic policy; Morocco.

Money laundering; laws and legislations; Algeria.