Moneylaundering.com

MLDC breaks news and delivers analysis on anti-financial crime trends with the needs of AFC professionals at financial institutions, regulatory agencies, law enforcement and non-governmental organizations in mind.

MLDC reporters are experienced award-winning journalists working on location in Washington, D.C., New York, and London, sometimes with the aid of freelancers from around the world.

In competing for stories with all the major global media organizations, MLDC reporters go beyond the headlines about financial crime, cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, sanctions and other topics, by drilling down on what each story means for their anti-financial crime professional readers.

The website boasts an unrivalled archive of more than 61,000 news stories, regulatory documents and enforcement actions all related to financial crime.

MLDC’s news effort employs a traditional editorial structure that institutionalizes fact-checking and utilizes copy editing and rewrite to ensure the accuracy of a story before it is published. Experienced reporters with deep ties to the AFC community understand the nuances of the material they cover and its importance to the AFC community in doing their jobs fighting crime and complying with regulation.

MLDC’s legal team includes qualified attorneys who adhere closely to the texts they write briefs on and who also subject the content they produce to a copy editing and proofreading process.

The MLDC archive of legislative and regulatory documents and enforcement actions provides users with a “brief” written by the legal team to concisely describe relevant aspects of source documents for busy, often overwhelmed anti-financial crime professionals. The entire “original” source document as released by legal, regulatory or other authority is also available to download in PDF format with renderable text.

There are two types of alerts, both of which can be set up by clicking on the URL at the top right of the MLDC landing page labelled “EMAIL NEWSLETTERS AND ALERTS” (https://www.moneylaundering.com/email-alerts/) once you are logged-in.

The first type of alert is for new content generated daily. Second, is a custom function that allows users to create up to 10 alerts generated by a keyword of the users choosing.

The page for creating alerts is also the go-to-place for users to sign up for MLDC newsletters: a “Weekly Wrap-up” of news and legal documents that is sent every Monday as well as Sanctions, Counter Terror Finance and Fraud wrap-ups sent each Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, respectively.

The advanced search tool allows keywords searches of the entire database of more than 61,000 news articles, regulatory documents and enforcement actions, including words that occur in both original source documents and legal briefs.

The advanced search filters also allow users to narrow results to specific document types, sources, date ranges or topics.

Simply type any text into the search field and click the enter key to view keyword matches, then specify additional criteria using the filters on the left side of the page to narrow your results.

The “New Documents” and “News” sections of the Countries/Regions pages are updated automatically when new articles are published.

The “Key Documents” section is only updated when there are changes to the jurisdiction’s core anti-financial crime legislation or regulation.

Updates to the “Important Facts” and “Rankings” sections are dependent upon a jurisdiction’s inclusion in annual assessments conducted by the State Department, the Basel Institute on Governance, Transparency International, and the Tax Justice Network.

Moneylaundering.com subscriptions are separate from ACAMS membership, however, Enterprise Memberships do include access to Moneylaundering.com.