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Combating Money Laundering in Malaysia: Current Practice, Challenges and Suggestions

Asian Journal of Accounting and Governance

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Title Combating Money Laundering in Malaysia: Current Practice, Challenges and Suggestions
 
Creator Abdul Latif, Amirah Mohamad
Abdul-Rahman, Aisyah
 
Subject Money laundering; AMLA; financial crime; banking institutions
 
Description Money laundering is a global threat to financial institutions especially the banking industry since it may weaken and expose the institutions to serious risks such as operational, legal and reputational risks. Against this background, the objectives of the study are to analyse the current practice on the prevention of money laundering in selected banks in Malaysia, to investigate the barriers to the implementation of effective Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations and to identify the ways to improve the implementation of AML in Malaysia. The study was conducted using qualitative method via interviews with 6 respondents from 6 Islamic & Conventional banks in Malaysia. The preliminary findings showed that the banking institutions’ current practice is fully complying with AML regulations under the AMLA 2001. The findings also demonstrated that the barriers to effective implementation of AML regulations are in line with those of previous study, which are lack of expert staff as the top factor together with an additional factor, which is lack of customers’ education and awareness on money laundering. Hence, to improve the implementation of AML in Malaysia, this study suggested to firstly strengthen the collaboration with government and relevant authorities to ensure strong enforcement action is taken against the criminals. Secondly, collaboration of BNM with banks and local media to increase public awareness and education on financial crime. Thirdly, to invest on employee training, upgrading system management as well as sufficient resources in compliance unit and finally to intensify the “Three Lines of Defence” in Bank Risk Management. 
 
Publisher Penerbit UKM
 
Contributor EP-2018-001
 
Date 2018-11-03
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ejournal.ukm.my/ajac/article/view/28741
10.17576/AJAG-2018-10-11
 
Source Asian Journal of Accounting and Governance; Vol 10 (2018); 123-134
2180-3838
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://ejournal.ukm.my/ajac/article/view/28741/8786
 
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