01825cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF011197 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781462312306 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Verdugo Yepes, Concha. Compliance with the AM+L4776L/CFT International Standard : Lessons from a Cross-Country Analysis / Concha Verdugo Yepes. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011. 1 online resource (75 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper assesses countries' compliance with the Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) international standard during the period 2004 to 2011. We find that overall compliance is low; there is an adverse impact on financial transparency created by the cumulative effects of poor implementation of standards on customer identification; and the current measurements of compliance do not take into account an analysis of ML/FT risk, thereby undermining their credibility and the relevance of some of the policy recommendations taken on their basis. Moreover, we also examine the key role of some cultural, institutional, and financial factors in boosting countries' compliance using econometric analysis. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/177 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2011/177/001.2011.issue-177-en.xml IMF e-Library