Banking Secrecy and Offshore Financial Centers: Money Laundering and Offshore Banking

Young, Mary Alice

Abstract

This book brings together the issues surrounding banking secrecy and confiscation of criminal proceeds. The book examines the existing legal agreements at the international, regional and national levels and their interaction in the substantive areas of confiscation, anti-money laundering and banking confidentiality laws. It looks at how these agreements have been applied in offshore financial centers and demonstrates that despite a number of legally binding UN Conventions as well as global anti-money laundering recommendations, the implementation of them is often lukewarm by those Parties who have ratified the Convention and adopted obligations, because of this the confiscation legislation is incompatible with strict banking confidentiality laws. The work draws on the experience of criminologists to offer critical insight into the legislative frameworks designed to deal with banking secrecy and confiscation in offshore financial centers. It goes on to offer suggestions for measures that may be taken by major economies to circumvent the lack of cooperation by offshore financial centers as intolerance towards money laundering grows in light of recent political and economic events

• Book Type: Authored Book
• Publication Date: Nov 28, 2012
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Series Title: Routledge Research in Finance and Banking Law
• ISBN: 9780415526326
• Keywords: banking secrecy, offshore financial centres, money laundering, offshore banking
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/941737
• Publisher URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415526326/