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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789376503321

Titolo

Panama : : Detailed Assessment Report—FATF Recommendations for Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2014

ISBN

1-4755-5988-7

1-4755-3111-7

1-4755-3161-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Collana

IMF Staff Country Reports

Disciplina

364.168097287

Soggetti

Money laundering - Panama - Prevention

Terrorism - Panama - Finance - Prevention

Banks and Banking

Public Finance

Criminology

Industries: Financial Services

Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law

Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Pension Funds

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Financial Instruments

Institutional Investors

Corporate crime

white-collar crime

Public finance & taxation

Banking

Finance

Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT)

Legal support in revenue administration

Money laundering

Terrorism financing

Crime

Revenue administration



Insurance companies

Financial institutions

Revenue

Banks and banking

Panama

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; 3. List of laws, regulations and other enforceable means (in separate document); 4. Copies of laws and regulations (in separate document); Acronyms; Preface; Executive Summary; 1. KEY FINDINGS; 1.1. Legal Systems and Related Institutional Measures; 1.2. Preventive Measures - Financial Institutions; 1.3. Preventive Measures - Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions; 1.4. Legal Persons and Arrangements and Nonprofit Organizations; 1.5. National and International Cooperation; 2. GENERAL; 2.1. General Information on Panama

2.2. General Situation of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism2.3. Overview of the Financial Sector; Statistical Tables; 1. Structure of Financial Sector - 2012; 2. Statistical Table 2; 3. Financial Activity by Type of Financial Institution; 2.4. Overview of the DNFBP Sector; 4. Financial Activity by Type of Financial Institution; 2.5. Overview of commercial laws and mechanisms governing legal persons and arrangements; 2.6. Overview of Strategy to Prevent Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing; 3. LEGAL SYSTEM AND RELATED INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES

3.1. Criminalization of Money Laundering (R. 1 and 2)3.1.1. Description and Analysis; 3.1.2. Recommendations and Comments:; 3.1.3. Compliance with Recommendations 1 and 2; 3.2. Criminalization of Terrorist Financing (SR. II); 3.2.1. Description and Analysis; 3.2.2. Recommendations and Comments; 3.2.3. Compliance with Special Recommendation II; 3.3. Confiscation, Freezing and Seizing of Proceeds of Crime (R. 3); 3.3.1. Description and Analysis; 3.3.2. Recommendations and Comments; 3.3.3. Compliance with Recommendation 3; 3.4. Freezing of Funds Used for Terrorist Financing (SR. III)

3.4.1. Description and Analysis3.4.2. Recommendations and Comments; 3.4.3. Compliance with Special Recommendation III; 3.5. The Financial Intelligence Unit and its Functions (R. 26); 3.5.1. Description and Analysis; 3.5.2. Recommendations and Comments; 3.5.3. Compliance with Recommendation 26; 3.6. Law Enforcement, Prosecution and Other Competent Authorities-the Framework for the Investigation and Prosecution of Offenses, and for Confiscation and Freezing (R. 27 and 28); 3.6.1. Description and Analysis; 3.6.2. Recommendations and Comments; 3.6.3. Compliance with Recommendations 27 and 28

3.7. Cross-Border Declaration or Disclosure (SR. IX)3.7.1. Description and Analysis; 3.7.2. Recommendations and Comments; 3.7.3. Compliance with Special Recommendation IX; 4. PREVENTIVE MEASURES-FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS; 4.1. Law, Regulations, and Other Enforceable Means; 4.2. Risk of Money Laundering or Terrorist



Financing; 4.3. Customer due Diligence, including Enhanced or Reduced Measures (R. 5 to 8); 4.3.1. Description and Analysis; 4.3.2. Recommendations and Comments; 4.3.3. Compliance with Recommendations 5 to 8; 4.4. Third Parties and Introduced Business (R. 9)

4.4.1. Description and Analysis

Sommario/riassunto

This report evaluates the level of implementation of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations for Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) in Panama. The findings reveal that Panama is vulnerable to money laundering from a number of sources, including drug trafficking and other predicate crimes committed abroad, such as fraud and financial and tax crimes. The AML Law covers most of the core financial sectors but does not fully apply to the insurance sector and does not extend to a number of other financial activities as required under the FATF standard. Competent authorities, including law enforcement and the Financial Intelligence Unit, do not have timely access to information on legal persons and arrangements as required under the FATF standard.