Panama : detailed assessment report-FATF recommendations for anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism

• Pubblicazione: Washington, District of Columbia : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (349 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.168097287
• Soggetto topico: Money laundering - Panama - Prevention; Terrorism - Panama - Finance - Prevention
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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: EXECUTIVE SUMMARYPanama is vulnerable to money laundering (ML) from a number of sources including drug trafficking and other predicate crimes committed abroad such as fraud, financial and tax crimes. It is a country with an open, dollarized economy and, as a regional and international financial and corporate services center, offers a wide range of offshore financial and corporate services. It is also a transit point for drug trafficking from South American countries with some of the highest levels of production and trafficking of illegal drugs in the world. These factors put the country at hig
• Titolo autorizzato: Panama
• ISBN: 1-4755-5988-7; 1-4755-3111-7; 1-4755-3161-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464409303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF country report ; ; Number 14/54.