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# [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2070094/Channel-Islands-left-off-EUs-money-laundering-white-list.html The Channel Islands] | # [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2070094/Channel-Islands-left-off-EUs-money-laundering-white-list.html The Channel Islands] | ||
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Revision as of 19:28, 14 February 2019
Contents
Full Title
Trust in Financial Institutions Should be a Primary Role of Good Governments
Context
Since the earliest recorded human history, governments have been in the business of establishing a trusted medium of exchange. Primarily so that they can fund their own operations, collect taxes and encourage trade.[1]
The rules that governments use today to control their fiat currencies are focused on two primary problems, debasement by techniques like counterfeiting and misuse like money laundering. This article focuses on the governments' efforts to control misuses and the trouble that their efforts create for identifiers of humans and other legal entities.
Recognizing Good Governments
The major challenge is that some governments profit from activities under their control that would be illegal in other parts of the world. This is especially true of money laundering. Before the flow of money can be controlled, it must be tracked. That typically means that governments force bankers to identify the entities that move large amounts of money, especially movement across national boundaries. What this means is that some international body or some country, like the United States, that has a vested interest in maintaining its currency as a reserve current held by other counties, will establish rules and rate other governments on their adherents to those rules. These is an international body that performs this function,
Financial Action Task Force
European Commission
Has taken it upon itself to issue lists of third countries with weak anti-money laundering and terrorist financing regimes. Which include 4 possession of the United States and Saudi Arabia, which is jointly responsible for
But chose not to list these countries which are either part of the EU or close trading partners, but are on the FTFA list:
References
- ↑ James Buchan, Frozen Desire. (1997) ISBN 0-374-15909-2
