TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL CALLS FOR RELEASE OF MORE AML POLICY DATA BY GOVERNMENTS
February 1st, 2017
Anti-corruption campaign group Transparency International (TI) has called on major financial centres to be more open about their anti-money laundering (AML) efforts, claiming survey data indicates governments are being overly secretive. In a report based on studies of 12 developed jurisdictions called ‘Top Secret: Countries Keep Financial Crime Fighting Data to Themselves’, TI has said that only 36% of basic anti-money laundering indicators drawn from internationally accepted guidelines is available to the public and regularly updated. Its researchers ...
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