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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…

27.05.2020 | Anti-Money Laundering, Asset Recovery

Breaking new ground: prosecuting the first money laundering case in Uganda

Before joining the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery, Tom Walugembe was…

23.04.2020 | Anti-Money Laundering, Asset Recovery, Public Governance

Corruption in natural disaster situations – can our experiences help prevent corruption related to covid-19?

“Unprecedented” comes up again and again in commentaries on covid-19. But as I listen to more of…

02.03.2020 | Anti-Money Laundering, Collective Action, Compliance

Mark Pieth’s quick guide to gold laundering

Mark Pieth, Professor Emeritus of the University of Basel President of the Board of the Basel…

26.02.2020 | Anti-Money Laundering, Asset Recovery

Russia’s money laundering risks – what does the latest FATF report mean in practice?

Russia’s risk level in the Basel AML Index has hit a record low following a December 2019…