Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Chasing Dirty Money 2. How Much Money Is Laundered? 3. Money Laundering: Methods and Markets 4. The Anti-Money Laundering Regime 5. Combating Predicate Crimes Involved in Money Laundering 6. Protecting Financial System Integrity 7. Combating Global "Public Bads" 8. Improving the Global AML Regime References Glossary and Acronyms Index

About the Author

Edwin M. Truman, nonresident senior fellow since July 2013, joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics as senior fellow in 2001. Previously he served as assistant secretary of the US Treasury for International Affairs from December 1998 to January 2001 and returned as counselor to the secretary March-May 2009. He directed the Division of International Finance of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1977 to 1998. From 1983 to 1998, he was one of three economists on the staff of the Federal Open Market Committee.

Reviews

[T]he most comprehensive treatment of money laundering to date and... the benchmark by which all future discussions of the subject will be assessed. -- Robert E. Litan, Kauffman Foundation ...the most seminal study ever undertaken of the effectiveness of global efforts to deal with the growing threat to US national security and to the world financial system of money laundering. -- Stuart E. Eizenstat, former deputy secretary of the US Treasury Persons interested in AML policy will find the analyses and discussions in the book enlightening. -- International Enforcement Law Reporter