Understanding the psychology of the white collar financial criminal

How do financial criminals think? What makes them behave in the way they do? Understanding the thinking of white collar criminals helps us identify them before they can defraud another victim!

Is white collar crime really a crime?
Making sense of middle-class deviancy
Why society undervalues white collar crime
Who commits these crimes?

"Comparing financial crime and money laundering: where are they linked?"

Understanding the nexus between financial crime and money laundering is crucial to the broader understanding of what the law enforcement agencies are seeking to achieve through suspicious transaction disclosure.

Examining the inversely proportionate threat risk to the criminal and the financial institution during   the money laundering process
Deconstructing the traditional view of the money laundering methodology: why the ‘placement,   layering and integration’ model is mistaken
What kinds of money is the bank willing to accept or reject? Redefining the risks to the institution
Drawing up the ‘matrix of risk’: understanding its implications within the electronic environment

Tax evasion: the new crime of our times

Looking at one of the oldest crimes in the criminal calendar, and re-evaluating the methods which governments are increasingly intending to adopt to prevent tax evasion.

A dateline of changes in attitude towards tax evasion and its applicability to anti-money   laundering regulatory approaches.
The UK’s approach towards the offshore phenomenon and the kind of cases that have already   been illustrated.

The USA Patriot Act: the implications for the offshore sector

A review of the Patriot Act and the most important issues for non-US institutions
The implications of the doctrine of extraterritoriality
Confronting the risks of non-compliance

The impact of terrorist atrocities

Identifying terrorist structures
Identifying terrorist financial methods
Hawala and similar systems
New US responses
Compliance initiatives

Using technology to meet compliance needs

Why KYC is the most important of all the compliance issues
Using IT to meet pattern analysis requirements
Evaluating transfer patterns
The ‘3 Vs’ principle: looking for the needle in the haystack