There are 2.100 reports of suspicious transactions transmitted by the US authorities, but concerning banks all over the world. This is supported by the latest report by the ICIJ, an international consortium of investigative journalists which released the so-called FinCen files.
Numbers, which have gone almost unnoticed, which turn the spotlight back on laundering, a global plague which mainly concerns the large banks of the Eurozone subject to the Supervision of the ECB. In this context, reports concerning Italian banks are few and of very modest amounts. This good news is also possible thanks to the checks carried out by Bank of Italy.
In order to help defeat the scourge of money laundering, Assopopolari has published an updated version of the volume "The A, B, C, of anti-money laundering". A new edition that welcomes the regulatory evolution that has taken place in recent years with the implementation of the IV and V EU Directives and the related provisions of the Bank of Italy, mainly in the field of customer due diligence, organization, procedures and controls, objective communications , storage and provision of documents, data and information.
“We wanted to provide – said the general secretary of Assopopolari, Giuseppe DeLucia Lumeno – an overview of the regulation offering an agile guide that collects the most recent developments in the regulation. With a clear and linear language, the various application and operational aspects of the anti-money laundering obligations are available to all operators who need to know and apply the new rules in the daily performance of their activities. A further demonstration of the sensitivity of the popular credit system to cure a deep wound in the financial and social system which, with the current crisis, is in serious danger of becoming gangrenous."
