2011
DOI: 10.1177/0967010611399615
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Abstract: The implementation of the ongoing anti-money laundering/counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) drive within the private sector reflects a tension between the logic of state sovereignty and that of neoliberal governmentality. In this article, we show that the main concrete output of two decades of global policy in this area is found in the routinization of professional interactions between banks and law enforcement agencies. Banks recruit former law enforcement officials and attempt to establish informal ties wi… Show more

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“…The government, as a regulator, also has an interest in preventing fraud in internal banks. However, banks are also required to report activities related to anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) (Favarel-Garrigues, Godefroy, & Lascoumes, 2011).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The government, as a regulator, also has an interest in preventing fraud in internal banks. However, banks are also required to report activities related to anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) (Favarel-Garrigues, Godefroy, & Lascoumes, 2011).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Academics have security responsibilities, yet the rules of engagement or how they are expected to act remain unclear. And so the ambiguity surrounding the Act heightens tensions and fears -which as we argue culminate in conservatism, anxieties and resistance around doing something culpable (see Favarel-Garrigues et al 2011;Power 2004). Within universities, management and staff have started to take a risk-averse approach to activities deemed controversial (Gardella 2006).…”
Section: Countering Extremismmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…In the AML/CTF case, the assessment from the public institutions was to report the number of reports on suspicious clients and financial transactions, a typical assessment criterion for the marketization of the state. Banks and lawyers created policing units or compliance units consisting of compliance officers to secure that policing tasks had been conducted properly (Council of Bars andLaw Societies of Europe, 2011, 2017;Favarel-Garrigues et al, 2011;Unger et al, 2014). The Swedish police are not at liberty to share information on suspicions of crime or whether the reports they have submitted will lead to prosecution with private actors.…”
Section: Implementation-key Assessment Criterionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, a Swedish law firm placed the servers of these systems outside Sweden as they assumed that keeping a register over clients might be a violation of privacy legislation (Helgesson & Mörth, 2016, 2018. Thus, lawyers were on their own when balancing conflicting values and commercial interests (e.g., on how French banks use prejudices regarding clients in setting up alarm systems to achieve defendable compliance, Favarel-Garrigues et al, 2011).…”
Section: Implementation-key Assessment Criterionmentioning
confidence: 99%