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EU Policy on High-Risk Third Countries- Dirty List

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FATF Private Sector Business Bulletin

1 March 2019

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These new plans for bank reforms in Europe could hit Wall Street lenders

  • 23 Nov, 2016

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BVI publishes beneficial ownership details

  • 25 May, 2016

British Virgin Islands - As has been reported in regional media, the British Virgin Islands has published the exchange of notes and technical protocols agreed with the United Kingdom government relating to beneficia. [...]

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Corruption Currents: El Chapo Actress Facing Money Laundering Probe

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Qatar starts issuing new ID cards

  • 23 Jun, 2015

Qatar’s Ministry of Interior has begun issuing new residence cards instead of stickers in residents’ passports.

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Risks of Public WiFi

  • 26 May, 2015

 

Wired internet or wireless WiFi, the warnings are out there: Don’t visit any websites that you have important accounts with when using a. [...]

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All the oil in China

  • 31 Mar, 2015

With oil as with so much else in today’s geopolitical scene, China is the elephant in the room.

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Risk-Based Approach for the Banking SectorF

  • 23 Mar, 2015

The risk-based approach is central to the effective implementation of the FATF Recommendations. A risk-based approach means that countries, competent authorities, and banks identify, assess, and understand the money laundering and terrorist financing risk to which they are exposed, and take the a. [...]

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Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed jailed for 13 years

  • 14 Mar, 2015

Mohamed Nasheed, the first democratically elected leader of the Maldives, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after being found guilty of terrorism. The verdict is likely to worsen the acute political instability in the popular luxury tourist destination and appears likely to provoke street . [...]

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HSBC files timeline: from Swiss bank leak to fallout

  • 14 Mar, 2015

Following the publication of files leaked by IT expert turned whistleblower Hervé Falciani, the global bank has admitted wrongdoing at Swiss arm but insists things have changed 2006-07 Hervé Falciani begins surreptitiously extracting client data from inside HSBC Suisse. December 2008 Falc. [...]

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Bankers hail appointment of new BCC

  • 13 Mar, 2015

BEIRUT: The appointment of a new five-member Banking Control Commission Thursday has been hailed by bankers and experts. “This appointment of the Banking Control Commission is very crucial at this stage and the new president of the commission is a very qualified and credible man,” Nassib Ghob. [...]

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Govt orders Saudization of public transport industry

  • 13 Mar, 2015

Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, who is also the chairman of the ministerial supervisory committee on public transport, has ordered all contracts for the public transport system (including metro and buses) in Makkah, Jeddah and Taif to incorporate a clause for the Saudization of the public trans. [...]

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World powers begin talks on ending UN sanctions against Iran

  • 13 Mar, 2015

Major world powers have quietly begun talks on a UN Security Council resolution to lift UN sanctions on Iran if a nuclear agreement is struck, a step that could make it harder for the US Congress to undo a deal, officials said. The talks between Britain, China, France, Russia and the United State. [...]

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