Practical Guide to Combating Money Laundering & the Financing of Terrorism

In this fifth edition of the Practical guide to Combating money laundering & terrorism financing relevant developments and themes are dealt with relating to the prevention and combating of money laundering and terrorism financing, from both a national and an international perspective.

Besides recent examples of money laundering methods and techniques, we take a look at developments in legislation and regulations, such as the new European Anti-money laundering Directive, the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act (‘Wwft’) and the sanctions regulations. The emphasis here is on the Dutch anti-money laundering regulations. An in-depth look is taken at the operational implementation of customer due diligence, and attention is paid to specific related themes such as the reporting of unusual transactions and the compliance function.

This practical guide is intended as a knowledge book and as a reference work, and is written for professionals who are interested in and/or involved in the combating of money laundering and terrorism financing.