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The only book to deal authoritatively but accessibly with the widespread abuse of financial systems for criminal ends
The book deals with corruption, piracy, terrorist financing, drug dealing, fraud, tax evasion, sanctions busting and arms trading, and how this activity is facilitated through companies, usts, foundations, investment funds, private banks, pensions, insurance policies, offshore systems and more
Provides case studies based on real instances in which abuse occurred and suggests ways in which these could have been detected and prevented
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
'Stephen is a leader in financial crime writing. This book will catapult your understanding of how criminals compromise financial markets.'
ROBERT MAZUR, FORMER FEDERAL AGENT AND AUTHOR OF THE INFILTRATOR
'Few people have both the knowledge and the objective vantage point enjoyed by this author of the worldwide banking system over the last ten years. Fewer still could describe the prevailing culture within which the crisis developed and what was, and still is, wrong with that culture so accurately and so readably. The culture which created the crises from which we are still recovering is apparently alive and well. It extends to the secretion of criminal money of all kinds including terrorist funding. This book is a 'must read' for anyone who wants to understand the past, the present and the possible future for the world's financial institutions.'
SIR DAVID CALVERT SMITH, FORMER DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS OF ENGLAND & WALES
'In Criminal Capital, Stephen Platt lays out in clear and frightening detail, the criminal rot at the core of the international banking system. It brought the global economy to the brink of depression in 2008 and it has not been fixed. The author gets to the heart of the excessive risk taking and the blind eye to customer crime that allows banks to serve as a circulation system for global corruption. A bold and sobering read.'
ERIC LEWIS, SENIOR PARTNER LEWIS BAACH PLLC AND FORMER COUNSEL TO THE LIQUIDATORS OF MADOFF INTERNATIONAL SECURITIES LIMITED
'A great read for anybody who wants to learn more about how criminals abuse the global financial system.'
JOSEPH PISTONE, AUTHOR OF DONNIE BRASCO: MY UNDERCOVER LIFE IN THE MAFIA
'Criminal Capital offers a compelling, concerning, and clear view of the ways that financial institutions tacitly enable crime, and challenges both banks and regulators to stop the madness.'
CAROLE SWITZER, CO-FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF THE OPEN COMPLIANCE AND ETHICS GROUP
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Criminal Capital
Book Subtitle: How the Finance Industry Facilitates Crime
Authors: Stephen Platt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137337306
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-33729-0Published: 12 January 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-46376-3Published: 01 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-33730-6Published: 12 January 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 238
Topics: Organized Crime, Business Finance, Finance, general, Risk Management, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general