Concern about money laundering and the financing of terrorism has become one of the major preoccupations of governments and financial sector regulators around the world in these early years of the twenty-first century.

Businesses in the financial sector have to comply with a substantial amount of new legal obligations which are designed to draw them into a comprehensive web of safeguards and controls that has the ultimate aim of detecting money laundering and terrorist financing activity where it occurs, and preventing criminals from retaining the financial proceeds of their crimes.

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