Categorie archief: English – posts in English on this blog

New AML rules will change the EU’s financial crime prevention landscape for good | the Commission on the AML Package

The European Commission is convinced that the new AML/CFT bureaucracy of the AML Package will be useful in the fight against crime, read New AML rules will change the EU’s financial crime prevention landscape for good. But what will change … Lees verder

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Deal on improved information-sharing about companies in the EU, including partnerships | EP

The European Parliament announced Parliament and Council negotiators agreed on new rules regarding information-sharing about companies in the EU: The information will be easily accessible across the EU through business registers‘ interconnections and the companies will not be required to … Lees verder

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The journalistic loophole in GDPR and the AML package | noyb

Data protection organisation noyb in the article Swedish data brokers claim journalists’ legal protection to evade EU law writes that in Sweden large data brokers can simply obtain a “media licence”, exempting their entire business from all obligations under the … Lees verder

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Victims of Citizenship-Based Taxation/FATCA: even the US Senate knows | Grassley speech

It seems that even Americans are getting through that they are doing great harm to people of American nationality outside the US. In the opening statement of the meeting “Sunny Places for Shady People: Offshore Tax Evasion by the Wealthy … Lees verder

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Victims of CBT/FATCA establish ‘Tax Fairness for Americans Abroad’ against Citizenship-Based Taxation

Victims of the American tax laws (Citizenship-Based Taxation, ‘CBT’) and FATCA (the  law forcing financial institutions to supply financial personal data of US citizens that reside outside the US to the US government) have announced that they have founded an … Lees verder

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Statewatch map of EU agencies and interoperable databases

Statewatch published an interesting map of EU agencies and interoperable databases and a few international dabases. Their introduction: This map provides a visual representation of, and information on, the data architecture in the European Union’s “area of freedom, security and … Lees verder

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Proposals of the High-Level Group on “access to data for effective law enforcement” threaten the fundamental rights of European citizens

Civil society organisations, including European Digital Rights (EDRi), Privacy International and Statewatch, have submitted written comments on the work of the High-Level Group (HLG) on “access to data for effective law enforcement”, hereinafter ‘the Comments’. The HLG was set up … Lees verder

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FATF updates its guidance on beneficial ownership and transparency of legal arrangements | AML, CFT

In the article Guidance on Beneficial Ownership and Transparency of Legal Arrangements the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) announced its update its guidance on beneficial ownership and transparency of legal arrangements (pdf-document). In March 2023, the FATF published an updated … Lees verder

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The data broker for ‘the good’ | Friedrich Lindenberg’s open sanctions database | AML, CFT, sanctions, PEPs

You do not matter if you are not included in a database and if you are not profiled. That’s the new world. It is not only adtech companies that are creating private population registers. Journalists pretending they are promoting a … Lees verder

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The Commission’s AML fantasies about lawyers | SNRA

The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) has criticised the supranational risk assessment of the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing (SNRA) released by the European Commission [1]. Read the CCBE’s comments [2]. The organisation quotes … Lees verder

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