Abstract—Various exterior factors have perpetual effects on textile materials during wear, use and laundering in everyday life. In accordance with their frequency of use, textile materials are required to be laundered at certain intervals. The medium in which the laundering process takes place have inevitable detrimental physical and chemical effects on textile materials caused by the unique pa...

This paper investigates whether tax havens have an incentive to maintain low regulatory standards in order to attract black money activities. Using a new dataset on money laundering regulation, the results of this study show that tax haven and money laundering services coincide within the same country. This effect is especially observable for regulative instruments which increase the probabilit...

money laundering is a silent crime which crosses international boundaries. modern technology has led to new avenues to disguise the proceeds of crime. the advent of electronic money has meant that tracing the transfer of possibly illicit funds is an extremely difficult if not impossible task. therefore there is a need to take consistent measures against money laundering throughout the world esp...

Money laundering is a major global problem, enabling criminal organisations to hide their ill-gotten gains and to finance further operations. Prevention of money laundering is seen as a high priority by many governments, however detection of money laundering without prior knowledge of predicate crimes remains a significant challenge. Previous detection systems have tended to focus on individual...

group were representatives from the FBI, Interpol, the Financial Action Task Force, and a host of other international and national financial regulators and investigators. 9/11 represented a massive failure of international controls, and clearly only radical change would prevent something similar from happening in the future. What troubled the committee and international agencies was that the wh...

money laundering is a serious threat to financial system of all countries and it leads to destruction of the country's sovereignty and character. this has been widely recognized at the international level. money laundering as a crime only attracted interest in the 1980s, essentially within a drug trafficking context.

Money-Laundering causes a higher prevalence of crime and reduces the desire tending to invest in productive activities. Also, it leads to weaken the integrity of financial markets and decrease government control over economic policy. Banks are able to prevent theft, fraud, money laundering conducted by customers through identification of their clients’ behavioral characteristics. This leads to ...

Today, money laundering (ML) poses a serious threat not only to financial institutions but also to the nation. This criminal activity is becoming more and more sophisticated and seems to have moved from the cliché of drug trafficking to financing terrorism and surely not forgetting personal gain. Most international financial institutions have been implementing anti-money laundering solutions (A...

(1–3). However, this is near the upper limit of settings typically recommended for hot water cylinders, and heat losses incurred during laundering mean the maximum reached in many domestic washing machines may well be considerably lower than this. It has been suggested that commercial laundering might be better able to provide such conditions. Using dataloggers embedded in duvets, temperature p...