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20.09.2021 | Anti-Money Laundering, Asset Recovery

Beneficial ownership transparency is a pillar of anti-money laundering systems – so it needs to stand up. Insights from the Basel AML Index 2021

Our recently released Basel AML Index 2021 highlights how slow and ineffective implementation of…

15.09.2021 | Anti-Money Laundering, Asset Recovery

What this year's Basel AML Index says about money laundering threats from cryptocurrencies

The Basel AML Index 10th Edition explore four aspects hindering the global fight against money…

13.08.2021 | Anti-Money Laundering, Asset Recovery, Collective Action, Compliance, Green Corruption, Public Finance Management, Public Governance

Annual Report 2020: On fighting the pandemic of corruption

Published today, our Annual Report celebrates the achievements of our teams and partners around…

22.06.2021 | Anti-Money Laundering, Asset Recovery

Andrew Dornbierer’s quick guide to illicit enrichment (updated)

This quick guide offers a short introduction to illicit enrichment laws, which are emerging as a…

07.01.2021 | Anti-Money Laundering, Asset Recovery, Compliance

Will new FinCEN rules drive cryptocurrency users underground?

** Update: After this blog was published, FinCEN announced an extension to the comment period…

25.11.2020 | Anti-Money Laundering, Asset Recovery, Compliance, Green Corruption, Public Governance

Lighting the path ahead at the intersection of environmental degradation, illicit trade and corruption

Are we at a turning point in the fight to save our planet from the ravages of environmental…

23.11.2020 | Anti-Money Laundering, Asset Recovery, Compliance

New online course on cryptocurrencies and anti-money laundering

The Basel Institute on Governance is offering a new Cryptocurrencies and Anti-Money Laundering…

12.11.2020 | Anti-Money Laundering, Asset Recovery

Phyllis Atkinson's quick guide to offshore structures and beneficial ownership

Money laundering schemes frequently involve complex webs of transactions and structures that…

22.09.2020 | Anti-Money Laundering

What the FinCEN leaks reveal about systems to fight financial crime – BBC interview with Gretta Fenner

In an interview with BBC journalist Razia Iqbal on Newshour on 21 September, the Basel Institute…

28.07.2020 | Anti-Money Laundering, Asset Recovery

Andrew Dornbierer's quick guide to mobile money and financial crimes

The amount of money flowing through mobile payment systems such as M-Pesa, MTN Mobile Money and…

27.07.2020 | Anti-Money Laundering

AML supervision and financial scandals – what the Basel AML Index and FATF data reveal

Our recently released 9th Basel AML Index reveals – disappointingly – that global money…

28.05.2020 | Anti-Money Laundering

What we’re changing in the Basel AML Index – and why

The 9th public edition of the Basel AML Index, an independent ranking of countries’ risk of…