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Use of the internet and new payment technologies

There are the techniques apply through new payment technologies registered by AUSTRAC

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Alternative remittance services and underground banking

These techniques were reported to the UIF in Australia AUSTRIAC.

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International Respond to Terrorism Financing

This section begins by explaining the logic of disrupting terrorist financing and then describes how the international community has developed and applied international standards to combat the various sources, conduits and uses of terrorist financing.

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Moving Terrorist Funds

The multiplicity of organisational structures employed by terror networks, the continuing evolution of techniques in response to international measures and the opportunistic nature of terrorist financing all make it difficult to identify a favoured or most common method of transmission.

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Raising Terrorist Funds

Terrorist organisations may raise funds through: legitimate sources, including through abuse of charitable entities or legitimate businesses and self-financing, criminal activity, state sponsors and activities in failed states and other safe havens.

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Tontines: How can be misused for informal micro-finance schemes

A tontine is an age-old traditional system of financing small projects such as small retail businesses, small farming, health and education schemes. The system consists of a group of people, generally women, coming together and agreeing on how much to contribute and when each member benefits from the scheme.

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Nature of the Real Estate Sector in West Africa

Since the purchase or sale of a property is one of the largest single transactions a family or individual may undertake, changes in property prices have a substantial impact on the decisions taken by potential buyers and sellers of property relevant to mention that the West African real estate sector comprises land developments in residential, commercial, industrial and institutional properties as well as agricultural real estate.

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Securities sector vulnerabilities in Sri Lanka

Securities sector vulnerabilities according to the outcomes from APG Typologies Workshop in Sri Lanka in Oct 2008 on securities sector vulnerabilities.

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How to avoid boiler room schemes


Casino accounts & facilities

Casinos are the only form of gaming or gambling explicitly covered by the FATF standards, however the FATF standards do not define casinos or gaming, nor do they set out the activities undertaken by casinos. It is left to each jurisdiction to determine the forms of gaming included in its coverage of “casinos”.

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