Increasingly, hunting money-launderers is automated
The business of providing the software is booming
KEEN, no doubt, to stay alive, drug traffickers tend to be prompter payers than most. For software firms, this is just one of many clues that may hint at the laundering of ill-gotten money. Anti-money-laundering (AML) software, as it is called, monitors financial transactions and produces lists of the people most likely to be transferring the proceeds of crime.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Washing whiter”
Finance & economics November 4th 2017
- As the global economy picks up, inflation is oddly quiescent
- Investors call the end of the government-bond bull market (again)
- Increasingly, hunting money-launderers is automated
- Jerome Powell is poised to be named chairman of the Fed
- Asian households binge on debt
- In Japan, the move from cash to plastic goes slowly
- October 30th marked the 70th birthday of the WTO’s precursor
- Catalonia and the perils of fiscal redistribution
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