SCANT INTERNATIONAL MONEY LAUNDERING STANDARDS EXIST FOR STOCK EXCHANGE LISTING CONTROLS
July 1st, 2009
BY ANDREW CAVE
WHO regulates money laundering at the stock exchange listings of companies around the world? If this is a beguilingly simplistic question, then the answer is anything but.
The reply depends not only upon which country one is referring to but also on which companies list in which market and in which stock exchange sector.
Surprising as it may seem, the efforts to secure uniformity or at least harmony on international best practice in financial and corporate markets do not seem to have reached the listed companies sector, however large and ...
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