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Basel Institute on Governance ¦ Working Paper 63: Anticipating Future Corruption
Anticipating corruption before it becomes a money-laundering threat Corruption is often treated as an isolated...
Supervisory Enforcement and Institutional Liability of EU Credit Institutions in the Field of AML and Sanctions Compliance
From isolated breaches to institutional responsibility European Union credit institutions face a regulatory model in...
The Use of Artworks in Money Launderung Schemes and the Role of Freeports
How artworks and freeports can conceal criminal proceeds The art market combines high-value assets with...
Fighting Crime Across Borders: Sovereign Equality and Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters
Following the money across borders: why EU cooperation depends on the predicate offense Money laundering...
GI-TOC ¦ Licence to Launder: How Professional Enablers Sustain Illicit Finance in the Western Balkans
A system built on trust and exploited through expertise Professional money laundering is not a...
Open Ownership ¦ Research Symposium Synthesis Report: Evidence and Impact of Beneficial Ownership Transparency
Beneficial ownership transparency is moving beyond AML – and the evidence is catching up Beneficial...
Recurrence, Scale, and Risk-Based Monitoring in Money Laundering: Temporal Displacement under Cumulative Enforcement
How AML reshapes the timing of laundering Modern anti-money laundering (AML) practice evaluates transactions in...
Hidden Ownership in Suspicious Transactions - Experimental Evidence on AML Reporting Priorities in Norway
Hidden ownership underestimated: Norwegian AML professionals rank origin of funds above beneficial ownership Concealing who...
EJRR ¦ Governing Money Laundering as a Collective-Action Problem: The AMLA
Governing money laundering as a collective-action problem – What AMLA means for Europe’s fight against...
trigeko ¦ Study on Transnational ML Flows: Is Germany an Attractive Destination?
Transnational Money-Laundering Flows Involving Germany – Key Findings and Policy Implications This study provides the...
Fraud Detection Framework for Blockchain Finance: Tackling Arbitrage, Liquidity Exploits, and Money Laundering
Protecting DeFi: An AI‑Driven Framework to Prevent Arbitrage, Liquidity Drains, and Crypto Money Laundering Blockchain’s...
IJARBM ¦ Exploring Trade-Based Money Laundering Research: A Bibliometric Review
Exploring the Growing Research Landscape of Trade‑Based Money Laundering Trade‑based money laundering (TBML) exploits the...
BIS ¦ From Cash to Crypto: Towards a Consistent Regulatory Approach to Illicit Payments
From cash to crypto – aligning AML/CFT rules across payment instruments Payments vary not only...
Evolutionary Fraud, the Global Scamming Ecosystem and a Typology of Actors
How the global scamming ecosystem has become more complex, more organized, and harder to stop...
Political Stability and Money Laundering Risk
Why Stability Matters for Effective AML Money laundering remains a pervasive threat to financial integrity,...
Terrorist Financing in the Age of Large Language Models
Why LLMs matter for terrorist financing Large language models (LLMs) do not themselves commit violence,...
Accounting Scripts and the Politics of Compliance: Understanding Accountants’ Roles in AML through Sentiment and Script Theory
How accountants shaped anti‑money laundering in Canada’s non‑banking sectors Accountants are frequently discussed as procedural...
Hybrid Deep Learning for AML: Unsupervised Detection of Emerging Schemes via Feature Fusion and Explainable Artificial Intelligence
From rules to signals: hybrid deep learning for practical AML detection Traditional rule-based anti-money laundering...
Complementarity, Tension and Proportionality in the Anti-Money Laundering Regulation of Law Firm Client Accounts
Lessons from the UK Pooled law firm client accounts are central to everyday legal practice:...
Detecting Illicit Transactions in Bitcoin: A Wavelet-Temporal Graph Transformer Approach for Anti-Money Laundering
Detecting illicit bitcoin transactions Anti‑money laundering for cryptocurrencies remains a pressing problem: blockchains provide transparent...
Time-Domain-Multiplexed Gaussian Boson Sampling for Graph Problems in Finance
GB-Enabled Photonics: A New Frontier for Fighting Money Laundering and Financial Fraud Financial institutions and...
Federated Learning Architectures for Privacy Preserving Financial Fraud Detection Systems
What Practitioners Need to Know Financial institutions face fraud that is more complex, faster and...
Invisible Markets, Visible Weaknesses
The Institutional Roots of Informal Economy in Southeast Europe Institutional fragility and the rise of...
Accounting for the Cartel
Accounting as Tinted Glass – How Cartels Use Accounting to Normalize Violence and Buy Legitimacy...
Harmonisation of the Albanian Anti-Money Laundering Law with the EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive: Challenges and Perspectives
Harmonising Albania’s AML Law with EU Standards – Progress Made, Enforcement Lags Behind Albania has...
Strategic Choices in Money Laundering: Smurfing, Layering, and Financial Over-Diversification
How smurfing and asset laundering undermine AML: a strategic guide for compliance leads Money laundering...
Behaviourist Approach as the Need to Use Methods Based on Recognising Customer Behaviour in Support of the AML/CFT System
How behavioural analytics is reshaping AML/CFT risk detection A behaviourist approach reframes customer due diligence...
Have Financial Sanctions Lost Their Bite Due to Emerging Alternative Financial Practices in Global Trade?
Restoring Coercive Power: Policy Responses to Non‑Dollar Sanctions Evasion Sanctions as a coercive tool have...
Federated Data Governance for AML using Data Warehousing and AI
Federated Data Governance: A Practical Path to Better Cross‑Institution AML with Data Warehousing and AI...
AMLNet: A Knowledge-Based Multi-Agent Framework
AMLNet: a knowledge-based multi-agent framework to generate and detect realistic money laundering transactions Introduction: why...
Multimodal Anti Fraud Education improves Cognitive Emotional and Behavioral Engagement in Older Adults
Multimodal Anti-Fraud Education Enhances Engagement and Reduces Vulnerability Among Older Adults Introduction Older adults are...
AI Driven Fraud Detection Models in Financial Networks: A Comprehensive Systematic Review
AI Driven Fraud Detection Models in Financial Networks: A Comprehensive Review Introduction Financial networks constitute...
Linguistic Mechanisms of Knowledge-Exchange in a Dark-Web Money Laundering Forum
Linguistic Mechanisms of Knowledge Exchange in a Dark-Web Money Laundering Forum Understanding Money Laundering Through...
A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis of Money Laundering and Related Scams: Trends, Influences, and Research Gaps
A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis of Money Laundering and Related Scams: Trends, Influences, and Research Gaps...
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Managing the Conflict Between AML and Financial Inclusion
Balancing Act in Banking: Managing the Conflict Between Anti-Money Laundering Regulations and Financial Inclusion in...
Harmonisation of the Beneficial Ownership Registers in European Union
Harmonisation of Beneficial Ownership Registers in the European Union: A Critical Step in Combating Financial...
Assessing Terrorist Use of Virtual Asset Intermediaries
What investigators need to watch Terrorist groups have not abandoned traditional finance, but they are...
The Proposed Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) and the Future of FIU Collaboration in Europe
What data protection tells us about the next phase of AML/CFT The European Commission’s 2021...
Understanding the term 'Terrorism'
Understanding the term ‘Terrorism’: A complex history and varied meanings The word “terrorism” is everywhere...
Organized Crime and Banks: Assessing the Effects of Anti-Mafia Police Actions on Lending
The Impact of Anti-Mafia Police Actions on Banking and Economic Activity Introduction Organized crime, particularly...
Benefits from AI in Money Laundering in Europe
Who benefits from AI in Money Laundering in Europe: The Organised Criminals or the AML...
Virtual Threats: Terrorist Financing via Online Gaming
A growing blind spot in financial crime prevention The global video game industry reached $187.7...
WeirdFlows: Anomaly Detection in Financial Transaction Flows
WeirdFlows: A Novel Approach to Detecting Anomalies in Financial Transaction Flows Introduction Financial crime, especially...
Sensitive Research & Anti-Money Laundering: a Possible Marriage of Convenience?
Sensitive Research and Anti‑Money Laundering: Could AML Tools Protect University Science? Universities have become prime...
Police Investigations Into Financial-Economic Cybercriminal Networks: The Experiences and Perceptions of Dutch Law Enforcement
Police Investigations into Financial-Economic Cybercriminal Networks: Insights from Dutch Law Enforcement Understanding the Challenge of...
The Ghost in the Machine: Counterterrorism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The Ghost in the Machine: What Generative AI Means for Financial Crime and Counterterrorism Generative...
Which Money to Follow? Evaluating Country-Specific Vulnerabilities to Illicit Financial Flows
Which Money to Follow? Evaluating Country-Specific Vulnerabilities to Illicit Financial Flows Understanding the Challenge of...
Combating Financial Crimes: How are Crypto-Asset Providers navigating Regulatory Challenges?
Combating Financial Crimes: Navigating Regulatory Challenges for Crypto-Asset Providers Introduction: The Double-Edged Sword of Cryptocurrencies...
Digital Money Laundering – Threats and EU Regulatory Reform
Digital Money Laundering – Emerging Threats and the Need for EU Regulatory Reform The Impact...
The Shadow of the Financial Crisis: Socio‑Economic and Welfare Policy Development and Fear of Crime in Europe. A Random Effects Within‑Between Model Analysis of the European Social Survey, 2002–2018
The Shadow of the Financial Crisis: Socio-Economic Impact on Fear of Crime in Europe Understanding...
The New EU Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism: A Paradigm Shift in EU Efforts to Combat Terrorist Financing?
The New EU Anti‑Money Laundering Authority (AMLA): A realignment in Europe’s fight against terrorist financing...
An Anti-Money Laundering Authority for the European Union: a New Center of Gravity in AML Enforcement
A New Center of Gravity in EU Anti-Money Laundering Enforcement: The Establishment of AMLA Introduction...
A European Anti-Money Laundering Supervisory Authority: Perspectives and Challenges
A European Anti-Money Laundering Supervisory Authority: Perspectives and Challenges Money laundering remains one of the...
Examining Fifty Cases of Convicted Online Romance Fraud Offenders
Inside the World of Online Romance Fraud: Insights from Fifty Convicted Nigerian Scammers Understanding the...
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office and Environmental Crime ¦ Further Competence in the Near Future?
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office and Environmental Crime: Prospects for Expanded Competence Introduction to the...
Identifying Money Laundering Risk Indicators: Evidence from Bulgaria
Identifying Money Laundering Risk Indicators: Insights from Bulgaria’s Financial Sector The Growing Importance of Combating...
ERA Forum ¦ An Anti-Money Laundering Authority for the European Union: A New Center of Gravity in AML Enforcement
An AML Authority for the European Union – a new center of gravity in AML...
How do Ivorian Cyberfraudsters Manage Their Criminal Proceeds?
How Ivorian Cyberfraudsters Manage Their Criminal Proceeds: Insights from Recent Research Introduction Cyberfraud has become...
Assessing the Impact of Sanctions in the Crypto Ecosystem: Effective Measures or Ineffective Deterrents?
Assessing the Impact of Sanctions in the Crypto Ecosystem: Effective Measures or Ineffective Deterrents? Introduction...
Using Technological Innovations to Prevent and Combat Economic Crime
Using Technological Innovations to Prevent and Combat Economic Crime Understanding Economic Crime and Its Challenges...
A Risk-Based AML Framework: Finding Associates Through Ultimate Beneficial Owners
A Risk-Based AML Framework: Enhancing Detection of Associates Through Ultimate Beneficial Owners Introduction: Addressing AML...
Financial Extremism: The Dark Side of Crowdfunding and Terrorism
Financial Extremism: How Crowdfunding and Cryptocurrencies Fuel Terrorist Financing The October 7, 2023 attacks and...
Lawyers as Money Laundering Enablers? An Evolving and Contentious Relationship
Lawyers as Money Laundering Enablers? How the Legal Profession Fits into Modern Laundering Networks Why...
Anti-money laundering: The World's Least Effective Policy Experiment? Together, we can fix it
Anti‑Money Laundering: The World’s Least Effective Policy Experiment — How to Fix It Anti‑money laundering...
EU Sanctions Helpdesk
The EU Sanctions Helpdesk platform supports European operators in complying with European Union restrictive measures (also known as sanctions) imposed worldwide.
Aimed primarily at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), the Helpdesk offers resources and personalised help to companies performing sanctions due diligence checks.