By Leon Dawson, June 12, 2025
The Latin American and Caribbean countries that experience high levels of corruption can be ideal for laundering criminal proceeds. In a general manner, corruption erodes governance and institutions enabling weak oversight mechanisms for preventing and countering financial...
By Luisa Acosta, Claudia Marcela Hernández, June 4, 2025
El financiamiento del terrorismo (FT) es un delito que está asociado con los fondos y/o bienes que sostienen a los terroristas o grupos de terroristas para poder operar. Este financiamiento puede ser utilizado para comprar armamento, costear...
By Tanner Clegg, May 2, 2025
Amid the bedlam ignited by Watergate and national intelligence agencies’ abuses of power in the 1970s, Idaho Senator Frank Church mounted a Senate investigation into glaring corruption in the world of international business. This investigation, conducted by...
By Leon Dawson, March 10, 2025
In recent years, beneficial ownership (BO) transparency has become a global priority in fighting against money laundering (ML), tax evasion, and illicit financial flows. The British Overseas Territories (BOTs) in the Caribbean—Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and Bermuda—have all...
By Leon Dawson, February 10, 2025
Belize has made commendable strides in strengthening its anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CFT) framework, as reflected in the Fourth Round Mutual Evaluation Report (MER) of Belize (CFATF, 2025). Compared to its Third Round MER (2011),...
By Claudia Marcela Hernández, September 11, 2024
El Salvador, through the Digital Assets Issuance Law (LEAD) in January 2023, enabled the tokenization of Real-World Assets (RWA) Tokenization, allowing the tokenization of agricultural commodities, debts, and the issuance of stablecoins like a USDT. In August...
By Claudia Marcela Hernández, September 6, 2024
En enero de 2023, El Salvador dio un paso importante para la tokenización de activos del mundo real (Real World Assets Tokenization) con la Ley de Emisión de Activos Digitales (LEAD), permitiendo la tokenización de productos agrícolas...
By Daniel Calingaert, June 6, 2024
The global system of financial secrecy is a cancer on democratic institutions and a drain on economic development, yet to date only a handful of experts have called for its elimination. It merits far greater attention and...