Martin Cheek, Managing Director of SmartSearch says Wales is the UK’s least vulnerable target area for Russian dirty money.
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The average Anti-Money Laundering (AML) fine handed to the estate agency sector has gone through the roof and increased by 63.7%.
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Propertymark has opened compliance cases against five member businesses who have failed to comply with anti-money laundering regulations.
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Conveyancing giant launches end-to-end platform digitising the conveyancing process for sellers and buyers and reducing admin tasks.
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Money talks, as the song goes, but the gap between anti-money laundering regulation and its implementation is causing serious issues for estate agents, says Simon Luke.
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Failure to keep up to date with anti-money laundering rules could hit agents in the pocket as Government looks at second economic crime Bill
Read MoreCountrywide in the dock again for ‘conditional selling’ of in-house services
Subsidiary of estate agency giant admits some agents can be ‘over-exuberant’ and ‘push too hard on in house sales’.
Read MoreEstate agents in the money laundering firing line
Estate agents are in the trenches on the front line in the war against money laundering
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