New @DFID_UK funded report on Illicit financial flows "A financial integrity perspective" https://cenfri.org/publications/illicit-financial-flows-a-financial-integrity-perspective/ … by @cenfri_org @BarryCoops1 @Albert_vdL Its a valiant attempt to navigate the competing definitions and confusion....but....
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We likely have different perspectives and goals which determines the manner in which evidence is weighed and what is measured. Our goal is to delineate the continuum of illicit flows and to focus more on trade activity under current AML. Input is welcome on shared objectives.
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The thing is that we know that current AML processes are very ineffective, costly and with negative spillovers for financial inclusion. So there is a need to improve and redesign them (including for trade based money laundering). ...
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....and there is a need to strengthen customs compliance systems to facilitate trade, reduce fraud, smuggling and evasion, reduce corruption. FIUs & C&E depts need to communicate and exchange info, but bringing all under 'AML' is not obviously the way to strengthen either
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The umbrella "IFFs" has been effective to say "This Is Important" but it doesnt have conceptual or analytical power (in general it confuses). So we end up repeating well-worn figures which suggest a degree of knowledge that does not exist, rather than identifying what is known
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