FATF TYPOLOGIES

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE FIGHT against international money laundering may need resources and determination, but what it most needs is intelligence. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) knows this well, spreading the word about new threats. Keith Nuthall reports.LIKE every international organisation, it seems, FATF is fond of acronyms and jargon. For instance, the task force, the world's global anti-money laundering body, and part of the OECD, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, calls its intelligence reports 'typologies' papers.This is a ...


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