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Resources & Media

Useful links and interesting resources for everyone, help your understanding and knowledge of financial crime in all its guises. The subject matter is of relevance to anyone who has a bank account and/or pays taxes, with a focus on the UK alongside some global links.

EU 5th Money Laundering Directive - the latest EU guidelines for combating ML / Financial Crime.

Joint Money Laundering Steering Group (JMLSG) - Practical AML Guidance - UK 

Financial Action Task Force (FATF) - group dedicated to policy development and global financial crime assessment.

UK Bribery Act - Government Guidance document

Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 - Official legislation.

I Hate Money Laundering - Top notch AML blog by veteran consultant and trainer Susan Grossey.

Money Laundering Bulletin - ML News, reports, research - subscription service.

Global Center on Cooperative Security - Security Policy, Financial Crime, Criminal Justice and Radicalism.

Know Your Country - Comprehensive information on country risk.

Global Financial Integrity - Illicit Financial Flow Research and Reporting.

The Wolfsberg Group - Global Financial Crime Guidelines.

Global Witness - Anti-Corruption & Human Rights Campaigners, follow the money.

Transparency International - NGO Combating Global Corruption.

National Crime Agency SARs - NCA Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) Annual Reports. 

Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) - like it says on the tin - leading the fight!

Global Peace Index - visual representation of global terrorist activity.

Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) - international membership organization dedicated to enhancing the knowledge and expertise of financial crime detection and prevention professionals.

International Compliance Association (ICA) - a professional membership and awarding body for Compliance, Financial Crime Prevention and Anti Money Laundering courses.

Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) - a global professional body for those who work in the financial and investment industry, provides courses.

Terrorism Studies @ University of Edinburgh - comprehensive counter-terrorism distance learning.

Podcasts

Dark Money Files - non-technical look at how dark money takes forms such as money laundering, corruption, bribery, tax evasion enters the financial system and infects everything it touches.

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KickBack - The Anticorruption Podcast - a series featuring in-depth interviews with a wide range of corruption experts.

School LIbrary

BOOKS

Fascinating insights into the workings of illicit financial ongoings, the finance industry or just good reads about bad guys up to no good.

The Secret World of Oil: Ken Silverstein

The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth | Tom Burgis

Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering The World | Tom Burgis

Butler to the World: The book the oligarchs don’t want you to read - how Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals | Oliver Bullough

Sabotage: The Business of Finance | Anastasia Nesvetailova & Ronen Palan

Billion Dollar Whale: the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World | Tom Wright and Bradley Hope

Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World | Nicholas Shaxson

Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street | Sheelah Kolhatkar

Criminal Capital: How the Finance Industry Facilitates Crime | Stephen Platt

Demons of Gadara | John A. Cassara

The Infiltrator: Undercover in the World of Drug Barons and Dirty Banks |

Robert Mazur

Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel | Tom Wainwright

Moneyland: Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back | Oliver Bullough

Financial Exposure: Carl Levin's Senate Investigations Into Finance and Tax Abuse | Elise J Bean

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite | Michael Lewis

Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord | Andrew Hogan and Douglas Century

Brazillionaires: The Godfathers of Modern Brazil | Alex Cuadros 

McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime | Misha Glenny

The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age | David E. Sanger

Financial Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer | Nicholas Shaxson

The Despot's Guide to Wealth Management: On the International Campaign against Grand Corruption | J. C. Sharman

On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake | Sarah Chayes

Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security | Sarah Chayes

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