Research On International Anti-Laundering

In the relationship between banks and its customers, the bank's duty of confidentiality has always been the banks' practice. At the same time, in order to inspect and combat money laundering, the international community generally requires financial institutions to undertake the compulsive obligation of information disclosure. As to the specific regulation, every country's legislation and practice against money laundering has its own distinction. China's legal system against money laundering has been preliminarily established, but in the aspect of financial privacy protection is still deficient. Based on the study of the financial institutions' anti-money laundering system, this paper aims to reach the following ends: firstly, to study how to achieve balance between financial privacy protection and information disclosure; Secondly, to propose feasible suggestions and countermeasures for perfecting the regulations in our country through studying the theory and practice of international anti-money laundering and financial privacy protection.The body of this paper is consisted of four chapters, in addition with preface, such as following:The first chapter deeply studies the legal concept and evolution path of bank's duty of confidentiality as well as the corresponding financial privacy. It also theoretically analyzes the exception of bank's confidential obligation—the disclosure of information.Chapter two introduces the concept of money laundering, the process of money laundering and how to launder money through financial institutions. In this character, this paper also deeply discusses the financial institutions' information disclosure system and the principles of Information disclosureChapter three reviews the legislation and practice of the U.S.A, the U.K, Germany and some international organizations in the field of anti-money laundering. Then it introduces the characteristics of some countries' anti-money laundering system and international cooperation in financial supervision.Chapter four analyzes the status quo and inadequacy of the ruling anti-money laundering system in our country, proposes the principles about balancing financial privacy protection and information disclosure for anti-money laundering. In the end of this paper, it proposes the detailed suggestions for perfecting the anti-money laundering system.