International Anti-Money Laundering Regulations Through the Prism of Financial Inclusion and Competition

• Authors: Oleksandr Khlopenko

Abstracts

FR

Les trois dernières décennies ont été marquées par la lutte contre le blanchiment d’argent, l’évasion fiscale et, même si elle n’est pas strictement illégale, l’évasion fiscal après le boom des services juridiques et comptables dans les années 1980, qui est aussi nuisible. Les méthodes utilisées par les organisations nationales, internationales et supranationales vont de la puissance douce doctrinale à l’intimidation pure et simple, qui a été soutenue par leurs apologistes pour le bien commun. Pourtant, les politiques mises en oeuvre jusqu’à présent n’ont pas, d’une manière ou d’une autre, résolu le manque d’application théorique et pratique de l’»inclusion» et de l’»égalité» dans leur cadre. Ces mêmes trois décennies ont été caractérisées par l’écart de richesse croissant et la concentration du capital entre les mains de la minorité, dont la prérogative, comme le souligne Gabriel Zucman dans son ouvrage classique «The Hidden Wealth of Nations» (Zucman, 2015), est de préserver cette richesse entre leurs mains par tous les moyens nécessaires. L’article se penche sur les méthodes de mise en oeuvre de la réglementation anti-blanchiment, leurs effets à long terme dans les économies en développement et les effets restrictifs en ce qui concerne l’inclusion financière, la population marginalisée dans les économies en développement et l’application des principes et lois de l’Union européenne (UE) sur la concurrence.

EN

The last three decades have been marked by a battle with money laundering, tax evasion, and even though not strictly illegal, but no less harmful, tax avoidance after the boom in those legal and accountancy services back in the 1980s. The methods that national, international, and supranational organization have used range from doctrinal soft power to outright bullying, which were supported by their apologists for the sake of the common good. Yet the policies implemented so far have somehow not addressed the lack of theoretical and practical application of ‘inclusion’ and ‘equality’ into their framework. The same three decades have been characterized by the ever-growing wealth gap and the concentration of capital in the hands of the minority, whose prerogative, as pointed out by Gabriel Zucman in his classical work ‘The Hidden Wealth of Nations’ (2015), remains to preserve that wealth in their hands through whichever means necessary. The article researches into the implementation methods of anti-money laundering (AML) regulations, their long-term effects in developing economies, and the restrictive effects in relation to financial inclusion, the marginalized population in developing economies, and the application of the European Union’s principles and laws on competition.

Keywords

EN

international tax law; money-laundering; financial transactions tax; IMF; policies; international financial policy; international financial regulation

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania
• Journal: Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 19
• Pages: 75-90

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Oleksandr Khlopenko

• Katowice Business University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7172/1689-9024.YARS.2019.12.19.4

Biblioteka Nauki

2159188