Financial crime is an important and topical area. Concerns over money laundering have grown considerably since links with terrorist organisations have become more apparent in recent years. This new book sets out to provide banks and legal advisors with a practical and international guide to the issues surrounding banks and financial crime. It looks at the problems banks now face and the legal solutions required to remedy these.

Part I: Introduction: Banks and Money Laundering 1. 1. Introduction: Banks and Money Laundering Part II: The international law of tainted money 2. General Introduction: some problems relating to the role of international law 3. International Legal Sources I - the United Nations Conventions 4. International Legal Sources II - the UN Security Council Resolutions 5. International Legal Sources III - Sources of "soft law" 6. International Legal Sources IV: The European Union and the Council of Europe Part III: Public Obligations and Regulatory Responsibilities A. Offences 7. Money Laundering Offences under POCA 8. The Terrorism Acts and Conspiracy B. Sanctions and Regulatory Responsibilities 9. UK Sanctions Regimes 10. Regulatory Responsibilities Part IV: Professions and Financial Crime 11. The professions and financial crime Part V: The Private Law of Financial Crime 12. Claims arising under UK private law Part VI: Financial Crime and Private International Law 13. Introduction 14. Money had and received 15. Knowing receipt 16 Dis16. Dishonest Assistance 17. Deceit 18. Conspiracy Part VII: Providing and Obtaining Assistance A. Providing Assistance 19. Providing Assistance: Proceeds of Crime Act 2002: Investigations and Remedies 20. The Anti-Terrorist Regimes and FSMA B. Obtaining Assistance 21. Judicial co-operation including obtaining evidence Part VIII: The Future of International Law of Tainted Money: Problems of Implementation and Effectiveness 22. The future of the international law of tainted money

`This work is a collecion of essays....from nine distinguished authors who, drawn from the commercial and public law Bar and the banking industry, share several lifetimes' worth of practical experience and insight into this ever more complex, multi-layered and fast-moving area of law. It is welcome for that reason alone' Professor Joanna Gray, Journal of Business Law |d 2008