Morris-Cotterill: Financial Crime books for practitioners
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How not to be a money launderer (1996)
PDF e-book of the original print files.
How not to be a money launderer was, quite probably, the most influential book about money laundering risk and compliance ever published. In many respects it still is.
This is the book that introduced The Risk Based Approach almost a decade before the FATF looked at it, the book that introduced Trade Based Financial Crime before someone gave it a name and got it wrong, the book that introduced the risk to, and presented by, lawyers, laundering through private medicine and school fees decades before they were considered topics worthy of mention by "experts".
This is the book that says that the author would be delighted if he saw it on the desks of car dealers because of the risks they faced and presented.
This was the book that introduced money laundering, etc. risk. In 1996.
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Paperback: out of print
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Trade Based Financial Crime -
Volume 1 of 3
This series of books dispels the false assumption that financial institutions and other businesses should concentrate on money laundering in the commercial world. In fact, money laundering is a derivative offence, a subset of a vast array of business activities in which there are victims who need protection and criminals who must be reported.
Suspicious activity reports relate to the laundering of the proceeds of criminal conduct - so the starting point for any awareness of the subject must be the predicate crimes.
In this first volume in a three part series, Nigel Morris-Cotterill examines, in depth, topics such as free trade zones.
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Trade Based Financial Crime Vol 2
Trade Based Financial Crime -
Beyond Trade Based Money Laundering Volume 2 of 3
This series does more than dispel myths: it provides detailed, rational, explanations of the core issues.
Money laundering is a subset of trade-based financial crime, it's a derivative and it only exists because other offences have been committed. So it's easy right? There's criminal conduct, someone has benefited so you submit a suspicious activity report, dust off your hands and move on.
Well, no. That's what the people who talk about "Trade-based money laundering" will tell you. Yet, it's such a small part of the picture that not only is it misleading to isolate it, it's actually dangerous to directors, staff and businesses.
It's time to get the full picture.
Volume 3, to wrap up the series is in preparation.
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Trade Based Financial Crime Vol 1
Understanding Suspicion in Financial Crime (second edition)
Understanding Suspicion in Financial Crime is unique. It is the only book to examine the question of suspicion from multiple perspectives to find out why suspicion arises, why it does not, and why responses to suspicion vary so widely.
The book's first edition was very popular in investigation and intelligence agencies. It has immense value for defence lawyers, prosecutors, judges and financial crime risk officers (MLROs etc.) in financial institutions.
The second edition, nine years after the first, is completely reviewed and expanded.
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Associated Seminar: here
FINANCIAL CRIME RISK AND COMPLIANCE CASEBOOK
This is not a story book: the author has located original judgments including one he spent more than 20 years tracking down.
There is one story, "Miami Voce," which uses a wide range of sources because there are so many interlinked aspects to it.
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Paperback here
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Cut-Throats and Brigands
In 1902, a stockbroker wrote a novella about the abuses he saw. It was an extraordinary look at market abuse. C
ut-Throats and Brigands is a commentary on that novella and on the behaviour of market participants in the several hundred years leading up to it, demonstrating that today's market misconduct is prefaced by a long history of similar conduct. Using that as a starting point, Morris-Cotterill has gone back into the history of markets and up to date, identifying consistent failures in policy and enforcement, and what is today called "regulatory capture" where those that control the markets control the regulations.
Morris-Cotterill also suggests a disarmingly simple way to combat the single most central form of market manipulation which, over centuries, has been at the heart of market - and wider - financial crises.
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The Ten Real Life Exploits that Da'esh/ISIS use to Hack the World
Published in 2015 at the height of the first wave of Islamic State's terrorism campaign shows the group changed the face of terrorism as it had previously been known.
From recruitment techniques to technology, the group did more than develop terrorism: it provided a template for organised crime groups.
In the decade since the book was published, Da'esh reduced in importance as a single controlling entity, becoming a hub for others and then, in 2024, returning to manage an increasing number of attacks.
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SAFE WORD: NO
SAFE WORD: NO suggests a radical new approach to fraud and online safety to protect the young and the elderly.
We know that none of the techniques that have been used in the past are working. We talk about the young and the elderly but the fact is that everyone is a victim of fraud and online risk.
What if we stopped preaching and started talking?
SAFE WORD: NO is the catalyst for conversations in families, in workplaces and when visiting relatives in, for example, nursing homes.
Specialists in the field will say the book is a bit lightweight and for them it probably is but they are not who it is written for. It's written for people who are worried about their children and/or parents and want to help them identify risk and stay safe.
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Cleaning up the 'net
An action plan to combat the use and abuse of the internet for financial crime
Cleaning up the 'net was published in 2015. It was not Nigel Morris-Cotterill's first publicly available writing about the use of the internet for criminal purposes - that was an academic paper in 1999 - but it was the first end-to-end look at the internet, it's abuses and the creation of an action plan to combat crime using the 'net.
The book included many novel ideas, some of which have since been aired in, for example, the United Nations section looking at this area.
The world has moved on in the decade since this book appeared but the book is not out of date. There is little that needs to be updated, but there is a lot that needs to be added. That's why there will be a second edition.
This edition was taken out of print in 2022 but given the increasing talk of "cybercrime" its value has been restored. So, as with How not to be a money launderer, the first edition is now being made available as a personalised ebook, available only direct from the author.
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