Lisa Florkowski
Austria
René Kaestli
Switzerland
Daniel Thelesklaf
Switzerland
Mark van Thiel
Switzerland
Ralph Wyss
Switzerland
Marco Gercke
Germany
Thomas Dawlings
United Kingdom
Robert John Upton
United Kingdom

The Financial Integrity Network
Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Corruption pose a significant risk for the integrity of financial markets. Once the integrity of a financial institution or financial centre is doubted, its long-term viability is questioned, with serious economic and political consequences. A lack of financial integrity dampens economic development, decisions on the allocation of resources are corrupted and investment is misallocated.

In recent years we have seen a tremendous international effort to strengthen financial systems against money laundering, terrorist financing and corruption. Fair progress has been made: Countries worldwide have reassessed the adequacy of their preventive regimes and haven taken repressive action. But much remains to be done to build the required institutional and technical capacities. Key challenges will be to maintain the momentum and to eliminate the gaps in defences so as to detect and deter money laundering, terrorist financing and corruption nationally and internationally.

The Financial Integrity Network is a group of independent experts, lawyers and economists, which have worked together in various projects in the prevention of money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, financial and economic crime, and in the set up of relevant supervisory and regulatory systems. We have all practical international experience and speak several languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Bulgarian and Polish. We have been working for Governments and International Organisations alike.