Since 9/11, countering the financing of terrorism has been a significant policy priority of U.S. and international security agencies. As terrorist groups and tactics evolve, government authorities and the private sector have focused on preventing financial and commercial systems from being leveraged and abused to fund terrorist activities. Former leading governmental officials and experts from the private sector and academia have collaborated on this scholarly compendium, in which they discuss the key laws and strategies used to thwart the financing of terrorism. The book follows a logical progression of relevant topics that fosters a better understanding of this dynamic challenge.
Authoritative and informative, this guide outlines the domestic and international legal architecture of the battle against the financing of terrorism. To help you understand this complex issue, the book covers:
Included are valuable chapter appendices and exhibits with charts and graphs, as well as an extensive table of cases for easy reference.
Show moreSince 9/11, countering the financing of terrorism has been a significant policy priority of U.S. and international security agencies. As terrorist groups and tactics evolve, government authorities and the private sector have focused on preventing financial and commercial systems from being leveraged and abused to fund terrorist activities. Former leading governmental officials and experts from the private sector and academia have collaborated on this scholarly compendium, in which they discuss the key laws and strategies used to thwart the financing of terrorism. The book follows a logical progression of relevant topics that fosters a better understanding of this dynamic challenge.
Authoritative and informative, this guide outlines the domestic and international legal architecture of the battle against the financing of terrorism. To help you understand this complex issue, the book covers:
Included are valuable chapter appendices and exhibits with charts and graphs, as well as an extensive table of cases for easy reference.
Show moreAs the Regulatory Section Leader of the Firm’s Financial
Institutions Group, John concentrates his practice on regulatory,
governance and investigative matters involving financial
institutions.
He is a frequent speaker and author in the financial institutions
area on issues surrounding banking regulations, examinations and
enforcement actions. He teaches banking law and regulation at
Chicago-Kent College of Law's Graduate Program in Financial
Services Law and serves on the Board of Advisors of its Institute
for Compliance. He is the Co-Editor of the two-volume
edition, Advising Illinois Financial Institutions, in which he
wrote a chapter on bank enforcement issues, and is the co-author of
the chapter “Bank Examination and Enforcement” in The Keys to
Banking Law: A Handbook for Lawyers (2012). John is past
Chairman of both the American Bar Association Committee on Banking
Law's Enforcement, Insider Liability and Troubled Banks
Subcommittee and the Chicago Bar Association’s Financial
Institutions Committee.
John also devotes significant time to Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money
laundering issues. John is the Chairman of the American Bar
Association Committee on Banking Law’s Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money
Laundering Subcommittee. He also serves on the Advisory Board
of The Anti-Money Laundering Association and is the President of
its Chicago Chapter. He frequently lectures on the subject,
including at Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies
and Chicago-Kent College of Law. He is the author of a
chapter in the upcoming book, Understanding and Combating Terrorist
Financing.
Prior to joining the Firm in 1999, John was both a bank regulator
and a compliance consultant. He served as legal counsel for the
Illinois bank regulatory agency. John also obtained practical
experience with respect to bank operations and compliance issues as
a regulatory consultant with a regional accounting firm, performing
compliance reviews and training for a variety of financial
institutions.
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