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EBA: end ‘tick box’ approach to money laundering in EU
First EBA report on national supervisors’ AML/CFT approach finds many agencies failing to co-operate
Riksbank's Persson: Making the European financial system safer
Regulators and politicians know what needs to be done to put the eurozone on an even keel and fix the holes exposed by the subprime crisis, says Mattias Persson, head of financial stability at the Sveriges Riksbank, Sweden’s central bank. The result will…
Deutsche financing scheme for Riga left Latvia with $1 billion debt and reporting headache
A financing transaction arranged for Riga by Deutsche Bank shows how local authorities can lay their hands on spending money without reporting it as debt.
Binge then bust
Politicians have recently expressed alarm at a cross-currency swap conducted between Greece and Goldman Sachs in 2001, which allowed the sovereign to reduce the debt it reported in its public accounts. But other examples now coming to light show the…
