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 process designed to conceal the true origin of funds that were originally derived from illegal activities. Because money laundering often involves criminal activities, financial institutions have the responsibility to detect and report it to the appropriate government agencies in a timely manner. But the huge number of transactions occurring each day make detecting money l...

In order to track money laundering and terrorist funding, banks have to create risk profiles of their clients. Banks that want to do business in the United States have to implement a worldwide Know Your Customer (KYC) program, partially based on the Patriot Act. Implementing a KYC policy, however, raises several problems and seems to be neither effective nor efficient in tracking money launderi...

The previous declassification policies focus on qualitative analysis of security properties along different dimensions, lacking quantitative analysis of them. As a step in this direction, we relax restrictiveness of robustness of declassification from the quantitative aspect, and propose a definition of robustness rate of declassification, based on Shannon’s measure method of information lattic...

— The stock of wealth held offshore is estimated at US$6 trillion. Many small island economies (SIEs) host offshore finance centers, and some SIEs are highly dependent upon offshore finance. Extreme examples have over 90% of government revenues derived from finance sector activities. Since 1998 a series of international initiatives have been launched to combat harmful tax practices, money laund...