Journal of Financial Crime: Volume 15 Issue 1

Is the global financial system AML/CFT prepared?

To gauge the extent to which the global financial system is anti‐money laundering (AML)/countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) prepared by analysing and comparing the AML/CFT…

Offences concerning directors and officers of a company: Fraud and corruption in the United Kingdom – the present and the future

The purpose of this paper is to consider the present and possible future nature of the legal regime regulating and seeking to control fraud and corruption on the part of directors…

Stages of financial crime by business organizations

The inherent business focus of much organized financial crime has received increased attention in recent years. As organized crime receives increased attention, the corporate…

The dynamics of drug‐related organised crime and corruption in Brazil from a development perspective

This essay aims to examine the relationship between socio‐economic forces and drug‐related organised crime in Brazil. It focuses on both judicial structures and social service…

Evolving challenges for supreme audit institutions in struggling with corruption

To discuss the theoretical framework for involvement of supreme audit institutions (SAIs) in anti‐corruption struggle and their contributions in practice.

An analysis of advance fee fraud on the internet

Advance fee fraud on the internet is a current epidemic that rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars per year. The advent of the internet and proliferation of its use in the…

Corporate governance as a contraption of the FSA's accountability: An exegesis of the Combined Code

Owing to the tremendously vast and unprecedented nature of the directly‐conferred statutory powers of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) (under the Financial Services and…

Penetration of banks – myth or reality?