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Since China Mainland had implement Anti-Money Laundering (AML) system for several years, it seemed to have problems in low efficiency, departure from the target, enormous suspicious transaction reports but with low qualities, etc. These problems are due to that the researches are mostly emphasis on the inspections and renewal of the AML system in Western developed countries, but there are still significant differences between transition countries including China Mainland and those Western developed countries, for instance the severe corruption, the loss of state-owned assets and backward financial system and so on. According to the original intention of AML system, it is designed as an innovative system which compulsorily require active monitoring in any criminal fund flow and reporting suspicious deals. The AML system is hoped to achieve great effects in fighting against corruption, organized crimes and terrorism. However, money laundering crimes has not been curbed by bringing the AML system into execution, the amount of crimes has risen year by year. Money laundering becomes a challenge to the international society due to its complicated causes and deceitful methods. The Taiwan banking industry experienced blooming, financial crisis and economic depression, which took shape of the current financial system. In recent years, driven by the recession and operation difficulties, tapping into overseas markets where has high spreads is now one of the business strategies. Under the circumstances of both conforming to the regulatory authorities of overseas affiliates and head office and building effective and steady management mechanism, how to get healthy development and sustainable operation is now an extremely severe problem to all banks. The case company is a leadership in the domestic financial industry which has the successful experience of foreign exchanges business, corporate loan and retail business. This dissertation will discuss the AML compliance situation of the H bank under the increasingly strict atmosphere of AML and CFT. In addition, the dissertation will also analyze the problems in the AML procedures and thus put forward the optimization methods and risk management measures to the AML system.
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