Journal of Financial Crime: Volume 9 Issue 2

Going Underground — The Not So New Way to Bank?

George Gilligan

Most people in Western countries are more likely to associate the term underground banking with an automatic teller machine in a subway station, than with complex infrastructures…

Australia and Canada: The Role of Policy in Professional Liability

Mohammed B. Hemraj

The term ‘policy’ as used by the judges is mainly concerned with whether third parties should be allowed to recover economic loss suffered by them as a result of professional…

Manipulation

Marvin G. Pickholz, Jason Pickholz

The last decade of the prior millennium witnessed many revolutionary, not evolutionary, changes in the way business is done and information is exchanged globally. The Internet has…

Internet‐based Financial Services: A New Laundry?

Neil Munro

The purpose of this paper is to determine whether Internet‐based services, used by those individuals or organisations seeking to launder monies derived from illegal sources, will…

Obtaining Foreign Assistance to Prosecute Money Laundering Cases: A US Perspective

James P. Springer

This paper provides a detailed analysis of the various means available to US authorities for obtaining foreign evidence and other types of international assistance in money…

Sex Trafficking: A Financial Crime Perspective

R.E. Bell

The trafficking of women for the purpose of sexual exploitation has become a global business operated by organised crime groups and is now viewed as having reached ‘critical…

Human Rights and the Restructuring of Financial Services Regulation in the UK

Peter Johnstone, Jason Haines

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has been provided with the statutory authority to demand the attendance of suspects at its offices and also to demand that information is supplied…