... figuring out the search phrases to use based on the research question to guide the literature search. These included terms such as UAE, FDI, money laundering, financial crimes, risks, legislative frameworks, regulations and AML/CFT. A broad search was performed on different academic databases to ensure...

...Mohamed Fathi; Muhammad bin Saud Al-Shammar; Gamal Sayed Khalifa Mohamed Purpose This study aims to contribute to comprehending the challenges faced by Saudi Arabia in tackling the financial crimes enabled by cryptocurrency, especially in decentralized environments. Design/methodology/approach...

... of the AML Ordinance of 2007 played a key role in this development, laying down the legal framework through which Bangladesh combats money laundering (Alam et al., 2022). This ordinance has been amended over the years to make it work better because financial crimes and legislative responses to them...

...Jairo Stefano Dote-Pardo; Pedro Severino-González Purpose This study aims to characterize and analyze the literature on economic and financial crimes (EFCs) in the context of emerging markets, as published in Scopus. Design/methodology/approach A bibliometric analysis was conducted on 33...

... 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Financial crimes Visualization Money laundering Knowledge discovery In the money laundering domain, current research mainly focuses on detecting anomalies in transaction data. Text mining is also used to identify themes...

...Rabia Muhammad Amjad; Abdul Rafay; Noman Arshed; Mubbasher Munir; Maryam Muhammad Amjad Purpose The Financial Action Task Force defines money laundering as “processing of these criminal proceeds to disguise their illegal origin”. This is the major portion of financial crime that has ties across...

... as the basis for their predictions. The authors use the Basel Anti Money Laundering Index to operationalize financial crimes. They use dynamic panel data regressions spanning from 2012 to 2018 across 66 countries. Findings The authors find a positive and significant effect of national culture on money...

... can be contacted at: shirin.law@du.ac.bd India Bangladesh Financial crimes Money laundering Financial intelligence unit The journey of FIU in Bangladesh started in June 2002 when a department named “Anti-Money Laundering Department (AMLD)” was established within the central bank...

... by international organizations and government bodies, particularly, the US Government, dealing with various aspects of financial crime, import/export activity, and world trade statistics, in order to identify major challenges and possible solutions to the problem. Interviews were also conducted with the same goals...