Turning Compliance Theatre into Real Control
Value Delivered
- Confident product decisions grounded in regulatory insight
- Stronger first-line product risk ownership
- Evidence-based roadmaps and prioritisation
- Sharper positioning and go-to-market execution
- Faster delivery of commercially viable solutions
- Senior product and risk judgement at critical moments
I am also the co-author of Trade-Based Money Laundering Compliance and the Law and a recognised voice in economic crime prevention and compliance technology. My approach is practical, commercially astute and designed to help organisations make better decisions faster.
Category: TBML Blogs
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Follow the Boring Money: How TBML Hides Where You Won’t Look
Trade-based money laundering is not a niche quirk of trade finance; it is the dominant laundering method running through the global economy, hiding in plain sight in ordinary corporate behaviour,…
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TBML Journey: Born in Academia, Raised by Regulators
Trade-based money laundering (TBML) represents one of the most significant yet paradoxical developments in modern economic crime enforcement. What emerged in the 1980s as obscure academic observations about bilateral trade…
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TBML’s True Scale: Is the Emperor Wearing Any Clothes?
Here’s what the available evidence—or lack thereof—actually reveals about Trade-Based Money Laundering size estimates. And frankly, it’s a story of repeated recycling, methodological weakness, and inflated claims that should make…
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What is TBML?
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) defines Trade-Based Money Laundering (TBML) as “the process of disguising the proceeds of crime and moving value through the use of trade transactions in…
My Book
Reviews:
A stimulating, critical examination of TBML and how it is combatted (or not). The authors cogently argue that the true danger of TBML is not its invisibility, but our belief that rigorous compliance frameworks equal control, when in fact, the illusion of control allows illicit finance to flourish. – Michael Levi, Cardiff University, UK
TBML is arguably the largest and most consequential money laundering methodology today, yet simultaneously the least understood, recognized, and enforced. This timely and valuable book provides fresh insights. I applaud its focus on how both policymakers and practitioners often prioritize symbolic responses over meaningful and substantive countermeasures. – John Cassara, former U.S. Treasury Special Agent (retired); Author of Trade-Based Money Laundering: The Next Frontier in International Money Laundering Enforcement
Contact: mariola.marzouk@gmail.com
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