ELECTION OF OBAMA AS PRESIDENT COULD HERALD SHAKE UP IN US AML LEGISLATION
November 1st, 2008
BY ALAN OSBORN
IT may come to nothing, but anti-money laundering practitioners in the USA have some cause for confidence following November's historic presidential election. For the next four years at least America is going to be led by a man who has a track record in fighting money launderers and other financial criminals. Although when the Money Laundering Bulletin went to press, Senator and president-elect Barack Obama had not specified his intentions in the sector, his aides responded to inquiries with references to his senate voting record over the past ...
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