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Financial Services Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Eatwell (Labour) in the House of Lords on Monday, 12 November 2012. It occurred during Debate on bills on Financial Services Bill.

My Lords, I am amazed at the inability of the Treasury to get this one right. My noble friend Lord Davies of Oldham pointed out that the definitions, even in this indicative list of financial crimes, do not accord with our international obligations to the Financial Action Task Force. The FATF defines the crucial area of international financial crime as money laundering, the financing of terrorism, with which the Government have now caught up, and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Why are the Government not following the definition given in our international obligations? Why do they not consider including the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction—one of our key international obligations—as appropriate in the indicative list?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
740 c1363 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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