New Technologies, New Risks? : Innovation and Countering Terrorist Financing.
The rise of information and communication technologies in the past decades has facilitated major economic development. It has expanded access to financial resources to empower the poor. It has even given tools to government to detect and monitor criminal activity. Computers systems have been develop...
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World Bank,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword; Acknowledgments; Executive Summary; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Author's Biography; 1. Introduction; 2. Value Card Systems; Figure 2.1. Centrally Recorded and Unit-Recorded Value Card Setup; 3. Mobile Phone Financial Services; Figure 3.1. Surge in Mobile Connections across All Regions; Box 3.1. Risk-based Determination of Transaction Limits; Figure 3.2. Billions of m-FS users in 2007 (actual) and 2015 (estimated); 4. Online Banking and Payment Services; Figure 4.1. Internet Boom across Regions 1990-2005 (users per thousand people).
- Figure 4.2. Percent of Chinese and American Internet Users Accessing Online Payment and Banking ServicesBox 4.1. Indicators of Internet Payment System Crime; Figure 4.3. Transaction Limits for Moneybookers.com for UK residents; Figure 4.4. Online Revenue Lost to Fraud, Proportion of Total Revenue 2000-07; 5. Digital Currency; Figure 5.1. Typical Digital Currency Exchange Setup; 6. Conclusions; Table 5.1. Payment Methods and Risks of Abuse; References.