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Money laundering prevention deterring, detecting, and resolving financial fraud / by Turner, Jonathan E., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…-- Evolution of AML Controls -- Adjusting to Rapidly Increasing Scale -- A Highly Flexible Methodology Results in Processes that Are Difficult to Stop -- AML Is a Process, Not a Destination -- All Countries' Regulatory Programs Are Not Equal -- Technology and Offshore Havens Intersect -- The Cost vs. the Benefit -- Consider the Pace of Change and Progress -- Conclusion -- ch. 6 Discovery and Prevention -- Early Warning Is Essential to AML -- Proactive Means Active -- By the Numbers -- Paradigm Shift -- Testing Your Own AML Systems -- Expanding the Business Comparison -- The Regulatory Framework -- High-Risk Areas -- Money Laundering Meets Terror Financing -- Hiding in Plain Sight -- Criminalizing the Concealment Activities -- Creating Financial Fronts -- Keeping the Money Moving -- Keeping the Tax Man Happy -- Conclusion -- ch. 7 Terror Financing -- Terrorists Use Money Laundering Techniques -- Similarities and Distinctions -- Application of the Methodology to Terror Financing -- Global Impact of Financial Crimes -- Alternative Laundering Mechanisms -- Regulatory Responses -- Conclusion -- ch. 8 Identifying Risk Exposures -- AML Exposures: Assessing Financial Institution Risk -- Language, Culture, and Ethnicity -- The Legal Landscape -- Geography: Distance Matters -- The Goal of the Launderer Is to Hide -- The United States Takes a Different Approach -- Laundering Groups Seek to Evade Detection -- A Fractured Enforcement and Regulatory Picture -- The Regulatory Position on Cyber Risks -- Simple Fraud, Still Successful -- Conclusion -- ch. 9 Investigating Money Movement -- Money Laundering Is Now Transnational Organized Crime -- Succeeding in the Investigative Process -- Government Access to Information -- Mining Data for Money Laundering -- Some Products Help the Perpetrators -- Investigating Virtual Payment Technologies -- Looking to the Future Investigative Issues -- Putting an Investigative Plan in Motion -- People Are Essential to Proof -- Finding Money Laundering Abroad -- Money Laundering Exposure during the Financial Industry Consolidation -- Conclusion -- ch. 10 Reporting and Recovery -- Reporting to Law Enforcement -- Honest People Act Differently -- Anticipating Challenges with Cyber Recoveries -- Building Appropriate Controls into Online Payment Systems -- Global Coordination on Future Issues -- Weighing Access vs. …”
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Money laundering prevention deterring, detecting, and resolving financial fraud / by Turner, Jonathan E., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…-- Evolution of AML Controls -- Adjusting to Rapidly Increasing Scale -- A Highly Flexible Methodology Results in Processes that Are Difficult to Stop -- AML Is a Process, Not a Destination -- All Countries' Regulatory Programs Are Not Equal -- Technology and Offshore Havens Intersect -- The Cost vs. the Benefit -- Consider the Pace of Change and Progress -- Conclusion -- ch. 6 Discovery and Prevention -- Early Warning Is Essential to AML -- Proactive Means Active -- By the Numbers -- Paradigm Shift -- Testing Your Own AML Systems -- Expanding the Business Comparison -- The Regulatory Framework -- High-Risk Areas -- Money Laundering Meets Terror Financing -- Hiding in Plain Sight -- Criminalizing the Concealment Activities -- Creating Financial Fronts -- Keeping the Money Moving -- Keeping the Tax Man Happy -- Conclusion -- ch. 7 Terror Financing -- Terrorists Use Money Laundering Techniques -- Similarities and Distinctions -- Application of the Methodology to Terror Financing -- Global Impact of Financial Crimes -- Alternative Laundering Mechanisms -- Regulatory Responses -- Conclusion -- ch. 8 Identifying Risk Exposures -- AML Exposures: Assessing Financial Institution Risk -- Language, Culture, and Ethnicity -- The Legal Landscape -- Geography: Distance Matters -- The Goal of the Launderer Is to Hide -- The United States Takes a Different Approach -- Laundering Groups Seek to Evade Detection -- A Fractured Enforcement and Regulatory Picture -- The Regulatory Position on Cyber Risks -- Simple Fraud, Still Successful -- Conclusion -- ch. 9 Investigating Money Movement -- Money Laundering Is Now Transnational Organized Crime -- Succeeding in the Investigative Process -- Government Access to Information -- Mining Data for Money Laundering -- Some Products Help the Perpetrators -- Investigating Virtual Payment Technologies -- Looking to the Future Investigative Issues -- Putting an Investigative Plan in Motion -- People Are Essential to Proof -- Finding Money Laundering Abroad -- Money Laundering Exposure during the Financial Industry Consolidation -- Conclusion -- ch. 10 Reporting and Recovery -- Reporting to Law Enforcement -- Honest People Act Differently -- Anticipating Challenges with Cyber Recoveries -- Building Appropriate Controls into Online Payment Systems -- Global Coordination on Future Issues -- Weighing Access vs. …”
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Mixed legal systems, east and west /

Table of Contents: “…/ Esin Örücü -- Integration of Islamic law in the fabric of legal thought in Egypt / Mohamed Ahmed Serag -- The influence of religion on law in the Iranian legal system / Naser Ghorbannia -- The reception of Islamic law in Sri Lanka and its interplay with western legal traditions / Anton Cooray -- The contribution of the courts in the integration of Muslim law into the mixed fabric of South African law / Christa Rautenbach -- Islamic law and international law in the Islamic republic of Iran's constitution / Seyed Mostafa Mirmohammadi Azizi -- A study of the consolidation of Islamic law and modern western law in the Iranian penal code / Hossein Mir Mohammad Sadeghi -- The ancient Euro/Mediterranean radication of the aversion for usury / Ignazio Castellucci -- Settlement of Islamic finance disputes : the case of Malaysia and Saudi Arabia / Mohd Zakhiri Md Nor -- Mixed legal jurisdictions and clinical legal education : latest trends / David McQuoid-Mason.…”
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Mixed legal systems, east and west /

Table of Contents: “…/ Esin Örücü -- Integration of Islamic law in the fabric of legal thought in Egypt / Mohamed Ahmed Serag -- The influence of religion on law in the Iranian legal system / Naser Ghorbannia -- The reception of Islamic law in Sri Lanka and its interplay with western legal traditions / Anton Cooray -- The contribution of the courts in the integration of Muslim law into the mixed fabric of South African law / Christa Rautenbach -- Islamic law and international law in the Islamic republic of Iran's constitution / Seyed Mostafa Mirmohammadi Azizi -- A study of the consolidation of Islamic law and modern western law in the Iranian penal code / Hossein Mir Mohammad Sadeghi -- The ancient Euro/Mediterranean radication of the aversion for usury / Ignazio Castellucci -- Settlement of Islamic finance disputes : the case of Malaysia and Saudi Arabia / Mohd Zakhiri Md Nor -- Mixed legal jurisdictions and clinical legal education : latest trends / David McQuoid-Mason.…”
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A companion to Eastern European cinemas

Table of Contents: “…. -- Industries and institutions. Follow the money: financing contemporary cinema in Romania / Ioana Uricaru -- An alternative model of film production: film units in Poland after WWII / Dorota Ostrowska -- The Hussite heritage film: a dream for all Czech seasons / Petra Hanukovu -- International coproductions as productions of heterotopias / Ewa Mazierska -- East is East? …”
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A companion to Eastern European cinemas

Table of Contents: “…. -- Industries and institutions. Follow the money: financing contemporary cinema in Romania / Ioana Uricaru -- An alternative model of film production: film units in Poland after WWII / Dorota Ostrowska -- The Hussite heritage film: a dream for all Czech seasons / Petra Hanukovu -- International coproductions as productions of heterotopias / Ewa Mazierska -- East is East? …”
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Urban Rail Transit

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Urban Rail Transit

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Transforming government and empowering communities the Sri lankan experience with e-development / by Hanna, Nagy

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Introduction -- E-development as a holistic vision -- The eSri Lanka program -- Learning from eSri Lanka -- Developing e-leadership institutions -- An institutional innovation in e-leadership: the ICT Agency of Sri lanka -- The institutional model -- Evolution of the authorizing environment and governance model -- Mandate -- Paths to sustainability -- Core competencies -- Partnerships -- A learning organization -- Role of aid agencies -- Lessons and conclusions -- Annex 2.1 The ICT agency in search of a corporate identity -- Annex 2.2 The ICT policy framework & the organizational structure of the ICT agency -- Annex 2.3 Internal and external risks facing the ICT agency at inception -- Managing results -- Objectives of monitoring and evaluation for eSri Lanka -- Framework for monitoring and evaluation -- Arrangements for monitoring and evaluation -- Emerging lessons -- Annex 3.1 Results framework for monitoring and evaluation -- Outcome indicator -- ICT human resource development and industry promotion -- Transforming government -- Best practices and options for planning and implementing e-government -- Approaches to planning e-government -- Implementation of e-government: four phases -- Leadership, partnership, and change management -- Providing leadership, building partnerships -- Conclusions and implications -- Readiness for e-government: a historical perspective -- History of e-government in Sri Lanka -- Analysis of the situation -- Findings and recommendations -- A vision of e-government -- Motivations and aspirations -- Challenges to realizing the vision -- Lessons learned: a postscript -- A strategy for e-government: initial priorities and lessons -- Planning for e-services -- Building e-governance -- Implementation agenda -- Early experience and lessons -- Annex 7.1 Criteria for determining impact & feasibility of offering services online -- Determining impact -- Determining feasibility -- Empowering communities -- Innovation in ICT use for poverty reduction -- Bottom-up planning and participatory development -- Serving the bottom of the pyramid -- The user innovation revolution -- Demand-driven ICT-enabled development -- Financing ICT innovation: lessons from InfoDev -- Conditions for ensuring impact by small grants -- Strategies for soliciting and funding good proposals -- Evaluating proposals and making funding decisions -- Good practices in managing a small-grant program -- E-society: design and early experience -- Overview of the fund -- Practices in soliciting and funding proposals -- Arrangements for implementation and monitoring -- Early operation and lessons learned -- Key lessons of eSri Lanka -- Designing and implementing a holistic framework for e-development -- Developing e-leadership institutions -- Transforming government -- Empowering communities -- Appendix 1 Main program components of eSri Lanka -- ICT policy, leadership, and institutional development program -- Information infrastructure program -- Reengineering government program -- ICT human resource capacity-building program -- ICT investment and private sector development program -- E-society program -- Appendix 2 Selected indicators for Sri Lanka and comparators -- Bibliography -- About the author.…”
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Armed groups : studies in national security, counterterrorism, and counterinsurgency /

Table of Contents: “…Traughber -- Shari'a Financing and the Corning Ummah / Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. …”
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Armed groups : studies in national security, counterterrorism, and counterinsurgency /

Table of Contents: “…Traughber -- Shari'a Financing and the Corning Ummah / Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. …”
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Transforming government and empowering communities the Sri lankan experience with e-development / by Hanna, Nagy

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Introduction -- E-development as a holistic vision -- The eSri Lanka program -- Learning from eSri Lanka -- Developing e-leadership institutions -- An institutional innovation in e-leadership: the ICT Agency of Sri lanka -- The institutional model -- Evolution of the authorizing environment and governance model -- Mandate -- Paths to sustainability -- Core competencies -- Partnerships -- A learning organization -- Role of aid agencies -- Lessons and conclusions -- Annex 2.1 The ICT agency in search of a corporate identity -- Annex 2.2 The ICT policy framework & the organizational structure of the ICT agency -- Annex 2.3 Internal and external risks facing the ICT agency at inception -- Managing results -- Objectives of monitoring and evaluation for eSri Lanka -- Framework for monitoring and evaluation -- Arrangements for monitoring and evaluation -- Emerging lessons -- Annex 3.1 Results framework for monitoring and evaluation -- Outcome indicator -- ICT human resource development and industry promotion -- Transforming government -- Best practices and options for planning and implementing e-government -- Approaches to planning e-government -- Implementation of e-government: four phases -- Leadership, partnership, and change management -- Providing leadership, building partnerships -- Conclusions and implications -- Readiness for e-government: a historical perspective -- History of e-government in Sri Lanka -- Analysis of the situation -- Findings and recommendations -- A vision of e-government -- Motivations and aspirations -- Challenges to realizing the vision -- Lessons learned: a postscript -- A strategy for e-government: initial priorities and lessons -- Planning for e-services -- Building e-governance -- Implementation agenda -- Early experience and lessons -- Annex 7.1 Criteria for determining impact & feasibility of offering services online -- Determining impact -- Determining feasibility -- Empowering communities -- Innovation in ICT use for poverty reduction -- Bottom-up planning and participatory development -- Serving the bottom of the pyramid -- The user innovation revolution -- Demand-driven ICT-enabled development -- Financing ICT innovation: lessons from InfoDev -- Conditions for ensuring impact by small grants -- Strategies for soliciting and funding good proposals -- Evaluating proposals and making funding decisions -- Good practices in managing a small-grant program -- E-society: design and early experience -- Overview of the fund -- Practices in soliciting and funding proposals -- Arrangements for implementation and monitoring -- Early operation and lessons learned -- Key lessons of eSri Lanka -- Designing and implementing a holistic framework for e-development -- Developing e-leadership institutions -- Transforming government -- Empowering communities -- Appendix 1 Main program components of eSri Lanka -- ICT policy, leadership, and institutional development program -- Information infrastructure program -- Reengineering government program -- ICT human resource capacity-building program -- ICT investment and private sector development program -- E-society program -- Appendix 2 Selected indicators for Sri Lanka and comparators -- Bibliography -- About the author.…”
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Madison's music : on reading the First Amendment / by Neuborne, Burt, 1941-

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Madison's music : on reading the First Amendment / by Neuborne, Burt, 1941-

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Knowledge, democracy and action : Community-university research partnerships in global perspectives /

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Knowledge, democracy and action : Community-university research partnerships in global perspectives /

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