Starting with an overview of the development of money laundering and the work of international organisations, International Guide to Money Laundering Law and Practice is a unique publication providing a detailed insight into the background of money laundering operations, clearly explaining the anti-money laundering laws and regulations in 35 key global financial centres throughout the world. In addition, there are four chapters considering money laundering law and practice in the UK with the emphasis on the legal and regulatory framework and include: a chapter on the accounting and auditing issues; and a chapter on confiscating the proceeds of crime written by Jonathan Fisher, QC, a leading barrister specialising in corporate and financial crime, proceeds of crime and tax cases. It also contains a chapter covering international responses and initiatives to money laundering. The fifth edition covers, amongst other things, the implementation of the Fifth EU Money Laundering Directive and the Criminal Finances Bill. Written by local experts and edited by a team from Baker McKenzie's Financial Services Group, International Guide to Money Laundering Law and Practice is the leading, authoritative text on this heavily regulated area of law. It is essential for all banking and finance practitioners involved in anti-money laundering, banks, compliance officers and regulators in order to keep abreast of the developments and compliant with the law and regulations internationally.

Ravi Rajcoomar, one of the Caribbean's leading attorneys, was born in Trinidad, WI, and spent his early years in the United Kingdom. An academic scholar, he studied law at the UWI, Cavehill and Hugh Wooding Law School before starting his prodigious practice in criminal and civil law from1987 in Trinidad and Tobago, working in some of the country's most prestigious law firms, alongside legal luminaries such as Karl Hudson Phillips, QC and the late Desmond Allum, QC. A married father of four, he's currently attached to Trinity Chambers in Port of Spain. Known for his unique legal acumen, he has litigated in some of the region's most prominent and groundbreaking criminal and civil cases, many of which set legal precedent in the Caribbean and Commonwealth region in the past 25 years. As a founding member and executive officer of the Criminal Bar Association of T&T, he pioneered several domestic legal initiatives, including reform in the Magisterial Courts, legislation for DNA, paper committals and copyright infringement, use of witnesses statements in trials, visual recordings of police interviews, the Financial Investigation Unit and compliance and competition economics in the Caricom region. As a former senior member of the Council of the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago, he spearheaded major national legal initiatives aimed at protecting the public's interest, including the review of prisoners' rights and Constitutional Reform. Rajcoomar has also authored publications in Lawyer on Abuse of Process in Criminal Law and DNA and the Criminal Law, as well as A guide for Money Laundering Law & Regulation in Trinidad and Tobago.' He's also lectured at the Hugh Wooding Law School since 2005, and currently serves as a Commissioner of the Trinidad and Tobago Securities Exchange Commission.

Money Laundering Law and Regulation provides a practical, comprehensive guide to domestic anti-money laundering law and regulation. It covers the law on money laundering and terrorist financing together with the requirements of the Money Laundering Regulations 2007.

Intended as a comprehensive reference for professionals, this book covers the key anti-money laundering areas to enable you to be compliant with regimes and prepared for new legislation.

Annotation This highly practical guide explains the basis of international law, regulations and standards in this area and how they effect businesses and provides down to earth advice on the basic rules of good business management: know your client, know your business (and your client's business), which will help companies understand what procedures to establish and how and when to report suspicious activity.

"Money laundering and terrorist financing are serious crimes that affect not only those persons directly involved, but the economy as a whole. According to international standards, every bank has the obligation to know its customers and to report suspicious transactions. Although these obligations sound straightforward, they have proved challenging to implement. What information precisely has to be gathered? How should it be recorded? If and when does one have to file a suspicious transaction report? It is here that a supervisor can play a crucial role in helping supervised institutions; first, in understanding the full extent of the obligations of Customer Due Diligence and Suspicious Transaction Reports (STR) and, second, in ensuring that those obligations are not just words on paper but are applied in practice. Effective supervision is key to the success of a country's AML/CFT system. In this regard, field work in both developed and developing countries has shown an overall low compliance in the area of supervision of banks and other financial institutions; supervisory compliance is indeed generally lower than the average level of compliance with all Financial Action Task Force recommendations. As a result, by providing examples of good practices, this book aims to help countries better conform to international standards. In this regard, this handbook is specifically designed for bank supervisors.

Prevention of money laundering is now a board level issue as the FSA has indicated that directors and senior management will be held responsible for ensuring that appropriate procedures are in place to meet the FSA's requirements on money laundering. There is also the additional concern that officers, employees and senior management of institutions may find themselves facing criminal charges for breaches of law and regulation in this area. It is therefore vital that senior management teams in the UK keep abreast of developments in regulation in this important area and of the impact that those developments are likely to have on the best practice standards that firms are now expected to meet. This new book examines the entire breadth of UK money laundering law and regulation - from common law up to and including the 2003 Regulations - to provide the finance professional with a thorough commentary and interpretation, and a valuable guide to aid ongoing compliance and risk management.

Anti-Money Laundering is the definitive reference on money laundering and practice. First an outline will be given of the general approach taken by supra-national organisations like the United Nations and the European Council. Next the approach taken by international organisations and initiatives on the basis of the supra-national initiatives will be outlined by senior members of those organisations. A number of countries will then describe their specific prevention legislation. Countries involved will all be member-countries of the FATF (Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering). Finally there will be an overview to enable the reader to make a comparison between the most important topics of money laundering legislation and rules in the different countries.

Since June 2004, the law and regulation of money laundering in the UK have seen a number of significant developments.

Anti-Money Laundering Regulation and Compliance: Key Problems and Practice Areas is a comprehensive treatment of the Anti-Money Laundering/Combatting the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) compliance programs, recordkeeping and reporting requirements, and the best practices under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and sanctions regulatory regimes. AML/CFT and sanctions provisions are highly interrelated. Onboarding and customer due diligence requirements generate the data entered into transaction monitoring and screening systems.