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by evanjrowley 15 days ago
Which AML books would you recommend?
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I don't know of one that covers everything. Treasury's War is a sort of auto-biographical insider oriented history written from the perspective of someone in the Treasury Department, using the system to chase "terrorists" (often just random Muslim NGOs or orgs with zero evidence of terrorist involvement). Other books cover parts of the system incidentally, like the Banker's Plumbers Handbook (warning: self published, roughly edited).

A lot of what I learned about it, I learned by reading random documents published by governments designed for people working in regulated industries. Or by talking to people who worked in banks or regulators themselves. AML doesn't just cover banks but also in some countries casinos, car dealerships, lawyers, auction houses... it's like trying to push down on mercury so the scope of the rules constantly expands.