What is it about?

New research constructively critiques the global method for evaluating the effectiveness of anti-money laundering regimes. There is a dearth of scholarship whether the new global AML/CFT ‘effectiveness’ framework is sufficiently robust to assess effectiveness as it purports. This article begins addressing that gap. It combines outcomes/effectiveness and AML disciplines and uses recent mutual evaluations to assess the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF's) anti-money laundering ‘effectiveness’ methodology.

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If the “outcomes” of the “effectiveness” framework do not match the crime and terrorism prevention policy goals of nation states, the new “main” component for assessing the effectiveness of anti-money laundering regimes potentially detracts focus and resources from, rather than towards, intended policy objectives.

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FATF’s ‘effectiveness’ methodology does not yet reflect an outcome-oriented framework as it purports. Misapplication of outcome labels to outputs and activities miss an opportunity to evaluate outcomes, as the impact and effect of anti-money laundering policies.

Dr Ronald F Pol
La Trobe University

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This page is a summary of: Anti-money laundering effectiveness: assessing outcomes or ticking boxes?, Journal of Money Laundering Control, May 2018, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jmlc-07-2017-0029.
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