Regulatory regionalism and anti-money-laundering governance in Asia
Regulatory regionalism and anti-money-laundering governance in Asia
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亚洲的监管区域主义和反洗钱治理
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10.1080/10357718.2014.978737
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发表时间:
2014
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1.5
通讯作者:
Hameiri S
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Hameiri S
The effort to combat money laundering has intensified dramatically since the 1980s. Until 1986, no country treated money laundering-the attempt to disguise the origins of criminal proceeds to allow them to be freely enjoyed and used-as a criminal offence in its own right, and international cooperation around this issue was practically non-existent. However, following the Group of 7’s creation of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in 1989, anti-money-laundering (AML) regulation has become perhaps the most widely implemented international*Shahar Hameiri is Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Research Fellow in the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University. <S.Hameiri@murdoch.edu.au> Lee Jones is Senior Lecturer in International Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London, UK. <l.c.jones@qmul.ac.uk>Vol. 69, No. 2, 144-163, https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2014.978737regulatory regime on earth. Today, only two jurisdictions-Iran andNorth Korea —decline entirely to implement FATF’s 40 Recommendations framework, and even North Korea began discussions with FATF in October 2012. FATF’s spread to Asia has reflected an intensified AML campaign since thelate 1990s. FATF threatened to publicly ‘blacklist’ non-compliant jurisdictions, eventually issuing a list of Non-Cooperative Countries and Territories in February 2000, which international banks used to reassess investment risks, precipitating capital flight from several territories. These ‘sanctions’ were enabled and rationalised by growing concern about transnational organised crime and, later, by post-September 11 concern about terrorist financing. In 1997, a dedicated regional organisation-the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG)—was established to promote and monitor the implementation of the Recommendations. The main role of the APG, whose membership stretches from Afghanistan to the USA, is to coordinate periodic mutual evaluation exercises by member states and to help FATF develop new moneylaundering typologies and AML policies and procedures. As Asian states responded to the threat of sanctions and criminalised money laundering, and adopted FATF’s Recommendations, the APG’s membership grew from 13 in 1997 to 41 today, excluding only North Korea and a few tiny Pacific Island countries. The APG and similar regional bodies are central to implementing FATF’s Recommendations, since FATF itself is a small organisation with limited reach, which is not involved in managing and coordinating the mutual evaluation process, the main mechanism used to ensure compliance. This article makes two related arguments about the FATF regime. First, weargue that AML governance in Asia is part of a broader shift to regulatory regionalism, particularly in economic matters. Its implementation and functioning does not rely upon regional organisations usurping national sovereignty or capacities, or even upon intergovernmental coordination. Instead it requires the rescaling of ostensibly domestic agencies such that they are inserted within regional governance regimes and deploy international disciplines in other parts of their respective states and societies (see Hameiri and Jayasuriya 2011, 2012; Jayasuriya 2009). FATF and the APG are thus not supranational institutions overriding national sovereignty, as international and regional organisations are typically understood, but rather the hubs of a regulatory network, coordinating domestic agencies to manage a transnational problem. The FATF Recommendations and APG monitoring are highly prescriptive, requiring legal changes and the …
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