Japanese regional banks to counter moneylaundering by sharing info

"Money laundering is all over the place in Japan. I've seen it first hand in big business"

Do you actually, I mean really ACTUALLY know what money laundering is?!

Some of these regional banks have no email systems and operate by telephones and fax. Wouldn't doubt some still use an abacus. The concept of a shared anti-money laundering system will really test their technological sensibilities...

Seems like an irrelevant comment whatever you are getting at. Currency trading is not a crime and governments are allowed to target exchange rates.

Actually is a "crime", but since countries cannot commit crimes it is against the WTO to trade your currency against another in order to manipulate your currency.

They might get a few surprises...unless a few of the pollies keep it stashed under that mattress..

Open casinos!!!

Long overdue and should be heavily supported by regulators throughout both national as well as global banking systems.  The amount of time and effort banks spend on identifying customers and them maintaining client files to regulatory required standards is massive.  This is especially wasteful of time and effort in the Wholesale banking segment of the industry. 

And information sharing is a more effective way of detecting misconduct than each bank just looking at its own information.

currency manipulation is certainly not something you would expect from a country that is now trying to lecture the US on how to conduct free trade and stop protectionism. Japan and China are the biggest currency manipulators in the world, and to nobody's surprise they are also the world more protectionist economies as well.

Seems like an irrelevant comment whatever you are getting at. Currency trading is not a crime and governments are allowed to target exchange rates.

It might be legal but not moral

and they will counter currency manipulation by..... oh wait, that's ok here I forgot....

Seems like an irrelevant comment whatever you are getting at. Currency trading is not a crime and governments are allowed to target exchange rates.

and they will counter currency manipulation by..... oh wait, that's ok here I forgot....

Money laundering is all over the place in Japan. I've seen it first hand in big business. The problem is the tax authorities don't have enough power and privacy laws get in their way. The law is literally written, if you cannot see it, it does not exist.