Journal of Financial Crime: Volume 14 Issue 2

Business, risk and organized crime

George Peter Gilligan

The purpose of this paper is to consider organized crime as various forms of business activity which may or may not have attracted the label of criminality. In particular, how…

Fraud victimization and confidence in Florida's legal authorities

Michael D. Reisig, Kristy Holtfreter

This study seeks to identify personal characteristics that help to explain variation in consumer confidence in legal authorities' ability to effectively deal with fraud…

A crossroad in combating and preventing financial crime: Looking for synergetic instruments for attack and prevention

Antonello Biagioli, Massimo Nardo

The paper aims to address regulators, enforcers and the academy, presenting reflections on some research‐driven innovative approaches, strategies and tools in the fight against…

US interagency law enforcement cooperation since September 11, 2001: Improvements and results

Arthur D. Middlemiss, Nishi Gupta

This paper aims to illustrate by example the value of interagency cooperation between US and international law enforcement and regulatory agencies.

FATF Special Recommendations and UN Resolutions on the financing of terrorism: A review of the status of implementation and legal challenges faced by countries

Jean‐François Thony, Cheong‐Ann Png

This paper seeks to examine the extent to which Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Special Recommendations and UN Security Council Resolutions on the financing of terrorism have…

Central banks, merging banks and murky Italian waters

Nick Ridley

This paper seeks to provide an insight into financial crime in Italy and the highlighting of the anomalous role and position of the governor of the Italian National Bank and the…

OLAF: the fight against EU fraud

Brendan Quirke

The purpose of this paper is to consider the role of the European Anti‐Fraud Office, OLAF, in the fight against EU fraud and to consider the difficulties and problems it has to…

Challenges for regulating financial fraud in cyberspace

Nigel Fletcher

This paper seeks to examine the problem of cyber fraud, a situation created by online financial transactions.

Soft and hard strategies of regulating economic crime

Paul Larsson

The aim of this paper is to describe and analyse the variations used in different forms of regulatory practices in four Norwegian agencies. The crucial question is what explains…