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The Consequences of Anonymous Access to the Financial Payments System
Richard T. PreissRapid advances in technology have conferred vast benefits upon modern societies. Money can be transferred by wire in an instant. The internet has dispensed with the need to send…
Civil Liberties and Privacy
Fath El‐Rahman Abdalla El‐SheikhThe purpose of this article is only to whet the appetite for discussing the relationship between globalisation of crime and civil liberties and privacy. The topic is too…
Virtual Money, Vanishing Law: Dematerialisation in Electronic Funds Transfer, Financial Wrongs and Doctrinal Makeshifts in English Legal Structures
Robin MackenzieIn this article the author proposes to traverse various views on money in order to contend that while antiquated notions of its materiality continue to bedevil English legal…
Financial Investigations and Criminal Money
Marcel PheijfferThis article starts with a short introduction to the department of the Dutch Fiscal Investigation and Information Service (FIOD). There will be an introduction on financial…
Yuppies, Drugs and Tesco: Should the Bank of England Blame Itself for Bank Failures?
Magda D'Ingeo, Philip RawlingsIn the early 1980s Tesco had provisionally agreed plans with the property developer, Provincial Properties Wales, to build a new store in Barry. Michael Hepker, the owner of…
Money Laundering Regulation: The Micro Economics
Donato MasciandaroThe analysis of the interactions between the criminal economy and the financial markets has not yet been systematically studied by the economists. This study belongs to a current…
Crime, Illegality and Social Structure: The Road Towards an Integrated Strategy
Massimo NardoThe last few years have seen a steady crescendo in the panic over the threat of organised crime in society. In fact, society is increasingly realising that it is involved in a…
EU: The EC Money Laundering Directive
Richard AlexanderThe Council Directive on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering was passed on 10th June, 1991, and the anti money laundering legislation…
South Africa: Prevention and Control of Money Laundering
Angela ItzikowitzThe subject of this article is the prevention and control of money laundering in South Africa. In particular, it focuses on the reporting obligations under existing legislation…
Switzerland: Legislation to Combat Money Laundering
Riccardo SansonettiThe Swiss legislative policy designed to combat the use of the financial system for money laundering has been progressively tightened over the last few years. It appears that…
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1368-5201Online date, start – end:
1997Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr Li Hong Xing
- Prof Barry Rider