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Buying into AML risks in real estate

Abrigo

Regulations such as Geographic Targeting Order updates help identify AML risks by requiring identification for certain real estate purchases. The limited regulation around the real estate industry has made it especially easy for these bad actors to cycle their dirty money into the financial system using this avenue. In 2017, over 5.51

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London’s Dirty Little (Money Laundering) Secret

PYMNTS

office were facilitating tax evasion and money laundering. According to FT , no public or private action was taken against the bank by regulators after the information was disclosed. regulators didn’t seem inclined to take any real steps toward looking into the claims about BSI’s role in tax evasion at the time.

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Challenges to monetary policy: lessons from Medieval Europe

BankUnderground

Moreover, the national currency belongs to the people, and the state’s role is to regulate it to benefit the people. This is done by ensuring money is produced according to the strictest standards and avoiding manipulating it to the king’s benefit ( inflation tax ).

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Wells’ Woes, Stripe’s Acquisition And North Korea’s New Hacking Groove

PYMNTS

Regulators are reportedly inquiring about how a lawyer for wealthy customers of Wells Fargo came to access so large a trove of customer information. Regulators have reportedly informally reached out to the attorneys involved in the lawsuit underlying the release of information to figure out how the data breach happened.

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Wading Through the Waters

Independent Banker

Recently Congress passed the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, followed by the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 (HFIAA). Both of these laws pointedly changed the National Flood Insurance Program requirements over which of the banking agencies have jurisdiction. taxes and insurance.

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Guest Post: Third Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

And don’t forget that they are still finishing the $667 billion Operation Twist Program by year end 2012, where they sell shorter maturities and buy longer term ones to push interest rates lower. Bhutan, a Buddhist nation between India and China, began calculating the Gross National Happiness, or “GNH,” Index in 1972.

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China and India lead global cashless growth

Banking 2020

Many nations around the world, both developed and emerging, have enjoyed strong growth in non-cash payments in the past few years, with Germany, the UK, Belgium and France all contributing to an increase of 5.1 percent for Europe for 2012-13 – up from 3.6 Developing nations set to close the gap. per cent recorded in 2013.