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Singapore flags money laundering risk in banking sector

Banking being seen as a top money laundering risk could lead to more regulation
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore has updated its key Money Laundering National Risk Assessment to better reflect the increasingly challenging risk landscape, as the Asian banking hub moves to contain the fallout from its largest-ever money laundering scandal.

The central bank highlighted the country’s banking sector, especially the wealth management space, as posing the highest risks in terms of money laundering, given the country’s position as an international financial centre.

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Kimberley Long is the Asia editor at The Banker. She joined from Euromoney, where she spent four years as transaction services editor. She has a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Liverpool, and an MA in Print Journalism from the University of Sheffield. Between degrees she spent a year teaching English in Japan as part of the JET Programme.
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