Abstract
This article serves to introduce this special issue of Crime, Law, & Social Change on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). It provides a primer on the history and purpose of FATF and lays out some of the central debates over FATF and the anti-money laundering (AML) regime. Finally, as a way of giving readers an overview of the articles in the special issue, it proposes a series of themes that academics and practitioners should consider in future research and work with FATF.
Highlights
In April 2016, the murky world of illicit finance burst onto the headlines of media outlets around the globe when the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published the famous BPanama Papers.^ The massive project, led by Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier of Süddeutsche Zeitung, was based on information leaked by someone working Bon the inside^ at Mossack Fonseca, a global law firm based in Panama
As is true of the broader project, this introduction does not claim to fully reflect every question related to Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the antimoney laundering (AML) that scholars have delved into since FATF’s founding
One aim is to give a wider community of scholars a quick primer on an important and understudied institution, the Financial Action Task Force, and the AML regime it has built
Summary
In April 2016, the murky world of illicit finance burst onto the headlines of media outlets around the globe when the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published the famous BPanama Papers.^ The massive project, led by Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier of Süddeutsche Zeitung, was based on information leaked by someone working Bon the inside^ at Mossack Fonseca, a global law firm based in Panama. In particular, requires a multidisciplinary approach because it lies at the intersection of the social sciences [2] The articles in this special issue come from scholars in criminology, political science, economics, law, sociology, and public policy. This multidisciplinary approach avoids presenting a single narrative on FATF and the AML regime. The fourth section provides readers with an overview of the articles to follow It does so by highlighting key questions that the articles included in this issue suggest are relevant for on-going conversations about the future of FATF and the governance of illicit finance
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