The Financial Services Authority and the Prevention of Money Laundering Available to Purchase

The importance of fighting money laundering has for some time been recognised by British governments, and the imminent introduction of new legislation which aims inter alia to reduce the level of financial crime provides an opportunity to increase the effectiveness of the anti‐money‐laundering culture in the UK. The inclusion of the reduction of financial crime as one of the four regulatory objectives in the new legislation is a very welcome development.