Global Financial Crime

Since the tragic events of September 2001 in New York City, a new activity has been associated with money laundering, namely terrorism. Financing terrorism has changed the way the law perceives money laundering. This volume addresses how global crime and terrorism are linked and how to combat it.

---

The scope for financial crime has widened with the expansion and increased integration of financial markets. Money laundering, terrorism financing and tax crime have all changed in both nature and dimension. As new technologies reduce the importance of physical proximity to major onshore financial centres so a new generation of Offshore Financial Centres (OFCs) have emerged. This accessible volume provides a deeper analysis of the economic, institutional and political features of the OFCs, in order to design the optimal international regulatory policy. Using a multidisciplinary approach with an international level of expertise, the book evaluates international policies regarding offshore countries on the basis of a systematic analysis of their characteristics.