12/02/25

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Financial Crime

Financial Crime

A United Front: Boosting Economic Growth Through Strong Global Defences Against Financial Crime

Elisa de Anda Madrazo
Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

The latest Financial Centres Index showcases the world’s top financial hubs, renowned for their competitiveness, infrastructure, and opportunities to help trade and business growth. But the Index does not signal immunity from illicit financial flows, and each of these centres relies heavily on the security of other global economies.

In the increasingly globalised world we live in, no financial centre can succeed in a vacuum. With the OECD predicting that global trade in goods and services will rise 3.3 per cent this year, it is vital that we can all have confidence in funds flowing in and out of our economies.