Risk Professional: World Money Laundering Report Volume 9 Number 6 published

United Nations and World Bank: Asset Recovery Handbook

On 16th December 2010 the UNODC released a guide to recovery of the proceeds of corruption. But it's much more than that: it's a guide on how to conduct cross-border asset recovery actions using both the criminal and civil courts and – equally importantly – a clear indication for financial institutions of what to expect when one of their customers is under investigation.

CFATF emerges from "year of introspection."

The Caribbean Financial Action Task Force has spent a year deciding what to do next. It's making great strides in difficult circumstances and it's not helped by the FATF sniping from the sidelines.

AML / CFT: support for terrorists underpins new popularity of extradition

The ridiculous claims that Julian Assange of Wikileaks should be treated as a terrorist demonstrates just how far from reality some politicians are. The trouble is, as the Indian Ambassador to the USA being groped at US airports shows, the lunatics are all too often being put in charge of the asylum.

Flip Side – humour with a serious point

What's the most ridiculous security question you have been asked when have called your bank?

UK regulator gets the law wrong.

It's a constant battle to ensure that law is properly described in an age where sloppy language is becoming the norm. It's especially annoying to find that sloppiness in regulators. The latest example, not the first and it won't be the last, is the UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT).

Published 16 December 2010