Despite efforts by authorities to detect and combat money laundering such crime continues to plague global economies, with an estimated 5 percent of GDP laundered each year, approximately $2 trillion. In addition, asset management has become increasingly virtual, which has allowed money launderers to adapt their methods accordingly. This, in turn, puts pressure on regulatory bodies, and the financial services sector as a whole, to ensure their AML controls are sufficiently robust to deal with complex and evolving money laundering typologies.
Roundtable with Abhishek Dawar from our regulatory & consulting expertise.