The War on Money Laundering has Failed: Can we Fix it?

A scheme meant to protect the financial system doesn’t work as intended, and causes economic and social harm

Dr Ron Pol
DataDrivenInvestor
Published in
12 min readOct 21, 2019

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The modern anti-money laundering system (which makes banks and other firms check identity documents and scan billions of financial transactions) doesn’t stop crime. Criminals keep up to 99.9%…

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