Implications for financial institutions and IFFs as UN votes to assume responsibility for global tax rulemaking from OECD
The United Nations (UN) General Assembly has adopted a resolution that mandates the UN to assume responsibility for rulemaking on global tax. For sixty years the lead role for global tax rulemaking has been taken by the OECD, and the UN resolution may yet trigger…
Inadequate due diligence and beneficial ownership transparency facilitating US$23 billion illegal fishing industry
Lax supply chain due diligence and a lack of beneficial ownership transparency are amongst factors allowing one-fifth of the global fisheries market to be captured by operators involved in illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, a new report from the Financial Transparency Coalition (FTC) and…
China’s belt and road initiative to fuel IFFs and TBML
China’s belt and road initiative (BRI), the massive global infrastructure development strategy aimed at reshaping global trade routes, has improved transport corridors according to a report published by Global Financial Integrity (GFI) and London university’s Kings College. But these improved supply routes are fuelling illicit…
Global Forum reports on African plans and progress to stem IFFs
A lack of transparency facilitates all types of illicit financial flows (IFFs) in Africa, including money laundering and terrorism financing, corruption as well as tax evasion according to a new report published by the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes….
EU-UN study suggests sanctions for Eastern European banks for SARs and customer identification failures
Illicit financial flows (IFFs) in the EU’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) region, can be estimated at around €29 billion (US$31 billion) every year according to a new study released by the EU and the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute. One of its recommendations to…
Trade a key channel for transferring millions of illegally obtained euros through Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia
Trade is one of the three mechanisms or ‘channels’ – alongside cash movement and the financial system – identified for transferring millions of illegally obtained euros generated from corruption, tax evasion and organised crime through Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia every year according to…
Financial institutions’ critical role in combatting wildlife trafficking outlined in new FinCEN report
The US treasury department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has released a Financial Threat Analysis on wildlife trafficking threat patterns and trend information identified in Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) data. The report aims to further inform efforts to combat wildlife trafficking and the associated movement…
US$1.6 trillion lost in potential trade misinvoicing in 2018 amongst developing and advanced countries says GFI report
An estimated US$1.6 trillion in potential trade misinvoicing among 134 developing countries has been identified in 2018 according to a new report published by Global Financial Integrity (GFI). Trade-related Illicit Financial Flows in 134 Developing Countries 2009-2018 says that of that US$1.6 million, US$835 billion occurred between the…
Reintroduce international banks in the oil and gas commodity trade to reduce illicit financial flows says OECD report
Reintroducing large commercial banks into the oil and gas commodity trade could be a way to reduce the volume of illicit financial flows (IFFs) out of resource-rich developing countries according to a new report published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The…
Focus on trade in radically overhauled new US strategy for an international fight against corruption
The US will work with international partners as well as domestically to prevent, limit, and respond to corruption and related crimes in a significant overhaul of the way it targets public corruption that includes a clear focus on international trade according to a new plan…
