Not exact matches
Recently, the Canadian Bar
Association offered carefully worded recommendations to a federal finance committee tasked
with reviewing the Proceeds of Crime (
Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act.
Its
association with crime — namely
money laundering and narcotics through the online black market Silk Road — as well as an alarming amount of price volatility has left regulators and financial - market participants wary of its potential implications, and therefore reluctant to embrace it wholesale thus far.
Offshore accounts are used by wealthy individuals and corporations around the world as a perfectly legal way to reduce their tax burden, although the anonymity provided to account holders has also led to
associations with tax evasion,
money laundering and organized crime.
BM: Are you worried about a scenario where bitcoins
with close
association with a bitcoin address used on the Silk Road are flagged as being high risk for
money laundering?
The South Korean» Blockchain
Association, speaking
with Business Korea, stated; «We are seeking out ways to solve problems by launching a self - regulation commission and imposing duty to prevent
money laundering.»
The National
Association of REALTORS ® (NAR) collaborated
with the U.S. Department of Treasury to develop voluntary guidelines to increase real estate professionals» awareness of the potential
money laundering risks surrounding real estate transactions.
TORONTO — Canada's
money -
laundering watchdog drafted a document warning the real estate sector to be on guard for «specific ethnic communities» dealing
with terrorism and war, before removing the reference at the behest of an industry
association, documents show.