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Complex funding questions in fight against financial crime

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Published on: 04 March 2022
Published by a Law360 reporter

Table of contents

  • A complicated landscape
  • Penalties and other payments
  • What the heck is the Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS)?
  • Perverse incentives
  • Good for business?
  • Pooling the wins
  • Nit-picking
  • Details, details
  • The elephant in the room

Article summary

Law360, London: Financial crime is a costly business, both in terms of the damage it does to victims, society and the state, and in terms of the efforts put in to detecting, disrupting and punishing it, which are largely funded by the taxpayer.

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