money laundering

Money laundering is the illegal process of concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions.

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Euro Lawmakers Concerned About SWIFT Payments Data Sharing With The US

Euro Lawmakers Concerned About SWIFT Payments Data Sharing With The US
Euro Lawmakers Concerned About SWIFT Payments Data Sharing With The US
January 09, 2015  |  Cybersecurity

European policymakers are fighting over how financial messaging information from the SWIFT network can be used to fight terrorism, and who gets to use it,...

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More Red Tape Coming For Cross-Border Payments
More Red Tape Coming For Cross-Border Payments
January 08, 2015  |  B2B Payments

Regulators around the world are stepping up anti-money-laundering (AML) efforts, and, as a result, lenders are tightening the screws on cross-border payments, according to Corporate...

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New AML Rules Released
New AML Rules Released
December 04, 2014  |  B2B Payments

For the first time since 2010, federal regulators have released a new guidebook on how to meet anti-money-laundering (AML) regulations, Bank Info Security reported. Get...

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Casino Money-Laundering Probe Raises Cross-Border Payments Issues
Casino Money-Laundering Probe Raises Cross-Border Payments Issues
November 25, 2014  |  B2B Payments

In the world of payments, casinos are highly-complex players, with an unusually high mix of cash and cross-border transactions. That’s one of the reasons federal...

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Argentine Bank’s Money Transfers Linked To Money-Laundering Investigation
Argentine Bank’s Money Transfers Linked To Money-Laundering Investigation
November 12, 2014  |  Cross-border Payments

An Argentine bank whose anti-money-laundering controls got a clean bill of health from the New York Federal Reserve is now at the center of civil...

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Money-Laundering, Russian Style
Money-Laundering, Russian Style
November 06, 2014  |  Cybersecurity

Several close aides to Russian President Vladimir Putin are now the target of a U.S. Justice Department probe into an elaborate money-laundering scheme involving the...

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