Latest FATF Plenary; October 2021
The Financial Action Task Force held its most recent Plenary last week. The delegates completed work on a number key initiatives – updated guidance for a risk-based approach to virtual assets and virt...
29 Okt 20217min
Aiming For Improving Tax Fairness
The Biden Administration and the Treasury Department have unveiled a proposal to improve tax fairness and compliance. The proposal seeks to enhance tax reporting by authorizing the IRS to require fina...
22 Okt 20218min
Billions are Hidden in US Real Estate
In August 2021, Global Financial Integrity published Acres of Money Laundering – Why U.S. Real Estate is a Kleptocrat’s Dream. The report compares the real estate money laundering regulations across t...
15 Okt 20217min
Pandora Papers: Global And Local Financial Secrets
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), The Washington Post and many other news organizations around the world have published a series of stories based on nearly 12 million r...
8 Okt 20219min
Suspicious Activity Beyond the SAR
This week the Department of Homeland Security added an item to its website entitled “if you see something, say something.” The item discusses how individuals can report suspicious activity. John and E...
1 Okt 20217min
Combining Tech and People for a Better Outcome
In this episode of AML Conversations, John Byrne and David McLaughlin discuss David’s journey in creating QuantaVerse and the problems he set out to solve. They talk about the interaction of technolog...
27 Sep 202127min
Regulation of Antiquities – The ANPRM
This week FinCEN published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding anti-money laundering regulations for the trade in antiquities. John and Elliot look at some of the questions in the ANPRM...
24 Sep 20217min
Wildlife Trafficking
In this episode of AML Conversations, John Byrne, Debra LaPrevotte, and Dr. Louise Shelley discuss environmental crime and the need for a more cohesive approach. Wildlife trafficking continues to enab...
22 Sep 202133min
