The Language Matters “Professional enabler” is a term that’s increasingly used in global financial crime reports — often pointing the...

Property: A Money Launderer's Favourite Investment If you’re in legal practice, chances are you work on property deals. Whether...

What’s a National Risk Assessment and Why Should You Care? The term “National Risk Assessment” (NRA) might sound like something for...

Forget the Checkbox — This is About Common Sense There’s a lot of talk about applying a “risk-based approach” to anti-money laundering...

AML Training: Not Just a Tick-Box Exercise When AML training is only delivered once a year — and only to a select few — firms are taking...

Compliance Is Not a Solo Job Anti-money laundering (AML) compliance is often seen as the responsibility of one person: the compliance...

The Compliance Officer Role in Practice Designating someone as your Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance officer is a legal requirement...

A Policy Is Not a Program Most law firms already have an anti-money laundering (AML) policy in place. But that’s only one part of a...

Not All Criminals Wear Ski Masks If someone walked into your office and asked you to launder money, you’d say no. But what if they asked...

Is Money Laundering Really Just a “Foreign Money” Issue? In conversations across the legal sector, a common phrase comes up: "AML isn’t...

What Do Nail Bars, Car Washes, and Takeaways Have in Common? They may seem mundane, but these businesses share a key feature that makes...

What is Money Laundering? Money laundering is the process of disguising the origins of criminal funds to make them appear legitimate....