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A Better European Architecture to Fight Money Laundering POLICY BRIEF crescendo in 2018 with the liquidation of ABLV Bank in 18-25 A Better Latvia, the reopening of criminal investigations into Danske Bank in Denmark and Estonia, and the imposition of the European largest AML fine in European history against ING Bank in the Netherlands. Added together, these cases—large and Architecture to Fight small—have underlined the serious shortcomings of the European Union’s AML regime.2 Reports have pointed to Money Laundering a variety of bad actors as participants in these schemes, with linkages to organized crime, corruption, and North Korea Joshua Kirschenbaum and Nicolas Véron among others. The common thread, though, seems to be the December 2018 predominance of money originating in the former Soviet Union. Joshua Kirschenbaum is a senior fellow at the German Marshall A major problem lies in the fact that AML supervi- Fund. Nicolas Véron is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute sion of banks and other firms rests largely with the national for International Economics and Bruegel (Brussels). Véron authorities of individual EU member states, in increasing is also an independent nonexecutive director at the Global Trade Repository arm of the Depository Trust & Clearing tension with the legal framework for centralized prudential Corporation (DTCC), including DTCC Derivatives Repository supervision3 within the euro area and the European single plc (London), which is supervised by the European Securities and Markets Authority. market. This division of responsibilities is susceptible to political influence and regulatory capture. The system Authors’ Note: We are grateful for the insight and feedback of depends heavily on small, lower-capacity jurisdictions Jesper Berg, Sarah Boiteux, Per Callesen, Martin Chorzempa, Maria Demertzis, Panicos Demetriades, Juan Luis Díez to provide the first line of defense against illicit financial Gibson, Charlotte Dijkstra, Markus Forsman, Michael Gibson, practices, encouraging illicit actors to seek out weak links. Piers Haben, Michel Heijdra, Patrick Honohan, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, Alexander Lehmann, Herwin Loman, Scott Marcus, The result is an erosion of supervisory effectiveness in those Sylvain Maréchal, Kadri Martin, Tobias Mackie, Priscille Merle, member states where money launderers concentrate their G. J. Michiels van Kessenich, Maria Nieto, Francesco Papadia, Thierry Philipponnat, Marcus Pleyer, Adam Posen, Sébastien activity, undermining the integrity of the entire European Raspiller, Elina Ribakova, Pawel Samecki, Dirk Schoenmaker, system. Elleonora Soares, Edwin (Ted) Truman, Liviu Voinea, Boris Senior European financial policymakers have acknowl- Vujčić, Harald Waiglein, Steve Weisman, Thomas Wieser, Guntram Wolff, Pierre Wunsch, Stavros Zenios, and others edged this unsatisfactory reality. Andrea Enria, chairman who have opted to remain anonymous. Our thanks do not of the European Banking Authority (EBA), has observed imply their endorsement of this paper, which represents only our views. that “if you are in the [EU] single market, the strength of anti–money laundering controls can only be as high as the © Peterson Institute for International Economics. All rights reserved. Major banks or financial institutions in more than 15 coun- 2. Money laundering is the execution of a financial transac- tries in the European Union have been hit in recent years by tion involving the proceeds of a criminal act with the intent revelations involving violations of anti–money laundering to conceal the origin of the funds. An AML regime is a set of rules requiring financial institutions or other entities to main- (AML) laws. Many cases have involved staggering sums, tain controls and processes (an AML program) to detect and with billions of dollars laundered through accounts at one report such activity, to enable the government to discover, 1 track, prevent, or punish it. See Reuter and Truman (2004) single bank. The steady drumbeat of scandal reached a for a comprehensive and critical review of the US and global AML frameworks as they existed at that date. 3. Prudential supervision refers to oversight of the banking 1. See annex A for a list of recent AML violations and related system to ensure its safety and soundness, including moni- developments at EU banks. toring of capital ratios, lending practices, and governance. 1750 Massachusetts Avenue, NW | Washington, DC 20036-1903 USA | +1.202.328.9000 | www.piie.com PB 18-25 December 2018 weakest link.”4 Danièle Nouy, the top official for pruden- EXISTING AML SUPERVISORY FRAMEWORK tial supervision at the European Central Bank (ECB), has IN THE EUROPEAN UNION declared that it is “very embarrassing to depend on the The efforts of individual jurisdictions to combat money United States to do the [AML] job. This has to change…. laundering rest on three pillars. The first pillar consists We need a European institution that is implementing in a of administrative authorities, or AML supervisors, that thorough, deep, consistent fashion this [AML] legislation in examine supervised (“obliged”) entities for adherence to the the euro area.”5 jurisdiction’s AML regime and typically have the power to impose fines for noncompliance. The second pillar consists A major problem lies in the fact of financial intelligence units (FIUs), which collect, analyze, and disseminate the reporting that obliged entities submit that AML supervision of banks under applicable AML program requirements.6 The third and other firms rests largely pillar consists of law enforcement agencies and the justice with the national authorities of system, which investigate and prosecute individuals and individual EU member states. entities that commit criminal violations related to money laundering. The European Union first initiated AML legislation in Compounding these weaknesses is an increasingly men- the early 1990s, following AML developments in individual acing linkage between illicit finance and security threats, not member states. To date, there have been five successive least the risk of interference by Russia and other non-EU AML directives (AMLDs).7 AMLD4 has been in force since countries in EU domestic matters. European policymakers June 2015, with a deadline of June 26, 2017, for transposi- have accordingly stepped up their calls for greater capacity tion by member states. The transposition deadline for most to address such threats credibly and autonomously if need of AMLD5 is January 10, 2020. The successive AMLDs have be, without depending on the United States. generally followed, or even exceeded, recommendations set This Policy Brief outlines a path forward for the fight by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which sets AML against illicit finance with a stronger EU-level role in AML standards at the global level.8 AMLDs have expanded the supervision. Among the possible options, this study recom- scope of obliged entities subject to AML supervision, tight- mends the creation of a European AML Authority that would ened the definitions of suspicious activities and the processes supervise banks, other financial institutions, and nonfinan- to identify and report them, emphasized collecting ultimate cial firms for AML purposes. The new agency should have beneficial ownership information and adopting risk-based high standards of governance and independence, publish all approaches to compliance, and improved communication of its decisions, and be empowered to impose sufficiently between relevant authorities.9 large fines to deter malpractice. It would also act as a catalyst AML supervision in EU member states is conducted by for further harmonization of the AML legal regime across a wide range of national authorities. The AML supervisor of EU member states. a bank is generally but not always the same as its prudential Even radical reform of the European Union’s AML supervisory architecture would not address all the illicit finance challenges facing Europe. AML policy is difficult 6. There is one FIU for each jurisdiction. They participate in and will remain so. Even so, a better supervisory architecture a dedicated global body, the Egmont Group, formed in 1995 at a meeting in the eponymous building in Brussels. Egmont could make a material difference and significantly enhance has 156 members and established a permanent secretariat in the effectiveness of the European Union’s AML efforts. Toronto in 2008. 7. EU laws can be “directives,” framework laws that demand additional legislation (“transposition”) in each member state, or “regulations”—laws that are directly applicable in all mem- ber states with no need for national transposition. 8. The FATF was created at the G-7 Summit in 1989. Its per- manent Secretariat is hosted in Paris at the Organization for 4. Jim Brunsden, Caroline Binham, and Claire Jones, Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). “Scandals expose weakness of EU’s dirty money fight, say watchdogs,” Financial Times, September 5, 2018. 9. The European Commission (EC 2018) observed, however, that even if the changes associated with the future imple- 5. Quoted from Ivan Camilleri, “Pilatus Bank incident ‘embar- mentation of AMLD5 are factored in, “cooperation between rassing,’ says European Central Bank supervisor,” Times prudential authorities and AML supervisors is also largely of Malta, March 28, 2018, and from Deslandes and Magnus dependent on the good faith and willingness of the relevant (2018). authorities.” 2 3 PB 18-25 December 2018 supervisor. In the United Kingdom, the AML supervisor Banking Union is the Financial
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