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Risk of Money Laundering Within the Insurance Sector

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  • Valentin SCARLAT

    (Faculty of Financial Management, Ecological University of Bucharest)

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Using financial-banking institutions in money laundering contribute to the undermining of financial institutions, in part and that kind proximal, of the entire financial system. At the same time, the increasing integration of global financial systems and removing the barriers placed in the front of free capitals movement, facilitated ease with which black money can be washed and complicates money tracking circuit (be materialized in their, or as scriptural money). To earn money by fraud has, invariably, a transient nature. They ruin the reputation and it discourages honest investor. Financial institutions involved in money laundering scandal will risk prosecution in court and loss of goodwill on the market. If not controlled, process of money laundering may undermine efforts for existence of a free and competitive market and may affect the development of a healthy economy. [3] Thus, the insurance market as a whole plays a special role in the national system of the money laundering preventing and combating and the increase in the volume of transactions grows the risk degree of money laundering and combating terrorism.

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  • Valentin SCARLAT, 2018. "Risk of Money Laundering Within the Insurance Sector," Working papers 04, Ecological University of Bucharest, Department of Economics.
  • Handle: RePEc:eub:wpaper:2018-04
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    Keywords

    preventing and combating money laundering; insurance market; entities; knows your customer; suspicious transactions;
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    JEL classification:

    • G22 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation

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