Financial Regulation International

German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble has announced Germany’s plans to increase its efforts against money laundering and the financing of terrorism by restructuring and expanding its Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).[1] The special unit is..

In 2010, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) announced the new Basel III capital scheme.[1] The new rules have been signed by all 27 member states.[2] The chief goal of Basel III is to improve worldwide capital markets by enhancing not..

During October, the UK Government took some further steps towards implementing its Action Plan for anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist finance (CTF) (the Action Plan). It published the original Action Plan in April, but asked for views..

The announcement at the beginning of September of an Interpol working group on digital currencies and money laundering marks yet another step along the journey of acceptance for virtual and digital currencies. Banks and other financial institutions..