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  1. EFIPPP Threat Radar 2025

    Europol Financial Intelligence Public Private Partnership (EFIPPP) published a new Threat Radar in November. The Threat Radar shows where EFIPPP members see the greatest risks in the areas of money laundering and terrorist financing. What...

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  2. A dive into the world of stablecoins

    Stablecoins have quickly become a crucial part of the financial crypto landscape. Transaction volumes now exceed those of traditional payment systems. As a result, they are attracting increasing attention from regulators and investigative services. This...

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  3. The need for cash in labour-intensive sectors: the Cash Compensation Model

    By: FIOD Intelligence Noordwest Various analyses of unusual transactions by FIU-the Netherlands in cooperation with banks show that businesses have compelling reasons for needing cash. Simple cash withdrawals may be undesirable if those reasons do...

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  4. Correspondent banking: risks and risk management

    Correspondent banking plays a crucial role in the global financial system. It enables international payments, supports trade transactions and facilitates cross-border financial activities. However, due to its complexity and borderless nature, correspondent banking also entails...

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  5. Non conviction based confiscation in the Netherlands and Europe

    Dr. Marie-Lena Marstaller, LL.M., AMLC, 2022 Introduction As part of the fight against undermining and organised crime, many countries use non conviction based confiscation (NCBC) instruments to extracts assets with a criminal origin from circulation...

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  6. Money laundering vulnerabilities at PSPs

    By Noortje Boere and Erik Reissenweber (AMLC specialists) Money laundering is the hiding and/or giving an apparent legal status to funds originating from a crime so that they can be spent and invested in the...

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  7. Misuse of legal forms

    By: Joost Marée (Strategic Advisor Fraud prevention at the Ministry of Finance) and Erik Reissenweber (AML specialist, AMLC) It is possible to misuse legal forms in the Netherlands for purposes of money laundering such as...

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  8. The risks of money laundering in the US differ in each state

    By Erik Reissenweber (AMLC) Journalistic sources, such as the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), regularly publish disconcerting news about some states within the US that set a legal basis for offering secrecy to financial...

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  9. Banks have a wealth of information

    Gitty Kanters, FIOD Eindhoven IntroductionRecently the Fiscal Intelligence and Investigation Service (Fiscale Inlichtingen- en Opsporingsdienst or FIOD) conducted a criminal investigation further to the ING Bank having reported an incident to the Police. This report...

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  10. Feedback over suspicious transactions: Leaks, bad press and transaction monitoring

    Leaks, bad press and transaction monitoring By: Joris Rozemeijer (AMLC) and Sonja Corstanje Maaskant (FIU-Nederland), December 2021 In this article, under the scope of transaction monitoring in reference to publications in the press and together...

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