Discover white-collar crime, its types, and real-world examples such as securities fraud and money laundering, with cases ...

Placement is the first stage of the three stages of money laundering. At this stage, criminals attempt to enter the ‘dirty’ money into the financial system. This process can be dangerous because large ...

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There is a robust international network working to prevent money laundering. It’s called the FATF (Financial Action Task Force). It has headquarters in Paris and works through nine regional satellite ...

Designed for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important domestic and international Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulatory and enforcement ...

Europe has big plans to combat money laundering, but its history of tackling the illicit flow of dirty cash through its financial system is decidedly checkered. Estimates vary wildly about how much ...

Money laundering is one of the most difficult criminal economies to detect and prosecute, and the debate over the effectiveness of anti-money laundering policies has intensified in recent years, ...

A major move has just been made in the European Union to fight financial crime. A brand-new agency called the Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) has started work in July 2025. It is based in ...

Chinese nationals engaged in extensive money-laundering operations in the U.S., moving a suspected $312 billion in illicit cash over the past five years, the Treasury Department revealed Thursday. The ...

An estimated $750 billion in illicit funds flows into Europe’s economy each year, with Germany accounting for almost a fifth of the dirty money, followed by the U.K. and France, according to Nasdaq’s ...