Money Laundering Phenomenon _{Foundations, Trends, Impact, and Governance in the Banking Industry}

The book "Money laundering phenomenon - foundations, trends, impact and governance in
banking industry" explores foundation, models (methods) to measure money laundering,
trends, auditing Anti-Money Laundering structures in banking industry, AML risk
assessment, impact/effects of money laundering, governance, and regulatory point of view.

The book includes some models that have been used to measure the amount of money
laundering, respectively the effect of money laundering in various macroeconomic variables
such as economic growth, consumption, investment, government expenditure, export and
import. Moreover, there are presented some trends that may dominate in the AML field for
coming years.

The strengthening of international cooperation in the field of anti-money laundering have
given power to international organisations to recommend mitigating measures, standards and
principles and applying them in practise, this is why in the book a special chapter is dedicated
to international bodies and organisations to fight money laundering phenomenon.

Due to high importance of the AML risk assessment, as a risk management mechanism
framework, a specific chapter is dedicated to it.

A special attention is dedicated to the auditing of AML structures in banking and the role of
audit in general to AML field.

Last, but not least, in the book a chapter is dedicated to determinants of informal economy,
since money laundering and informal economy are interconnected and needs to be studied as
one of the challenges for countries.

We believe our book contributes to current literature on money laundering phenomena and
that it is important for bankers, policy makers, strategists, academics, and students.