Thomson Reuters publishes white paper on digital currencies and money laundering
Thomson Reuters has published a white paper detailing the challenge for law enforcement with digital currencies and how they can be used for money laundering. The paper is mainly an educational article and serves as an introduction to the problem of money laundering and digital currencies. The paper starts by quoting the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which is an international group involving 36 countries that money laundering is at the level of between two and five percent of global GDP, i.e. $1.38 trillion to $3.45 trillion. This is a rough estimate as, by the definition of the....
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