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From The Editor: Is it Enough that AML is Going Global?
By Kieran Beer
printThere are all those sayings about how the optimist and the pessimist encounter the world, starting with the old "glass half-full or half-empty" adage. The 33rd Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime offered fodder aplenty for both world views earlier this month in the United Kingdom. Speakers' remarks evidenced the growing internationalization of the fight against economic crime, with a particular focus on anti-money laundering (AML), countering the finance of terrorism and tackling the rising threat of cybercrime. This phenomenon represents a change over the past decade. Efforts to legislate and regulate AML/CFT standards were once mostly the agenda of...
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