The book “Money laundering phenomenon – foundations, trends, impact and governance in banking industry” explores foundation, models (methods) to measure money laundering, trends, auditing Anti-Money Laundering structures in banking industry, AML risk assessment, impact/effects of money laundering, governance, and regulatory point of view.

The book includes some models that have been used to measure the amount of money laundering, respectively the effect of money laundering in various macroeconomic variables such as economic growth, consumption, investment, government expenditure, export and import. Moreover, there are presented some trends that may dominate in the AML field for coming years.

The strengthening of international cooperation in the field of anti-money laundering have given power to international organisations to recommend mitigating measures, standards and principles and applying them in practise, this is why in the book a special chapter is dedicated to international bodies and organisations to fight money laundering phenomenon.

Due to high importance of the AML risk assessment, as a risk management mechanism framework, a specific chapter is dedicated to it.

A special attention is dedicated to the auditing of AML structures in banking and the role of audit in general to AML field.

Last, but not least, in the book a chapter is dedicated to determinants of informal economy, since money laundering and informal economy are interconnected and needs to be studied as one of the challenges for countries.

We believe our book contributes to current literature on money laundering phenomena and that it is important for bankers, policy makers, strategists, academics, and students.

Türkiye ve AB arasındaki yarım asırdır süregelen inişli çıkışlı ilişkilerin Avrupa Birliği’ndeki siyasi ve kurumsal gelişmelerle iç içe değerlendirildiği bu çalışma, konuyla sadece akademik olarak ilgilenen okuyucuların değil, Türkiye-AB ilişkilerinin çeşitli veçhelerini yönlendiren karar alıcıların da başvuracakları kapsamlı bir kaynaktır.

Prof. Dr. Sinem Akgül-Açıkmeşe, Kadir Has Üniversitesi

“Avrupa Birliği ve Avrupa Birliği-Türkiye İlişkileri: Atlıkarınca Yolculuğu” isimli çalışma AB, AB-Türkiye ilişkileri ve AB müzakere sürecini tarihsel bir bakış açısıyla okuyucuya sunuyor. Kitabın isminde de ifade edildiği gibi bu süreç gerçekten de bir atlıkarıncaya benzetilebilir. Kitap yalnızca tarihsel süreci ele almakla kalmıyor. Aynı zamanda AB’nin yeşil mutabakat, iklim değişikliği, dijitalleşme gibi 2030 hedefleri ve öncelikleri ile Türkiye’nin içinde bulunduğu siyasi koşulların bu süreci gelecekte nasıl etkileyeceğini de tahlil ediyor. Kitabın yazarı Prof. Dr. Özerdem hem AB’nin geçirdiği dönüşüm ve gelişime, hem de Türkiye-AB ilişkilerinin serüvenine ilişkin derin ve kapsamlı bilgiler vererek, çok boyutlu bir analiz gerçekleştirmiş. Kendisini bu alandaki literatüre yapmış olduğu değerli katkı için kutluyorum.

Doç. Dr. Çiğdem Nas, İktisadi Kalkınma Vakfı

Prof. Dr. Füsun Özerdem’in kaleminden çıkan “Avrupa Birliği ve Avrupa Birliği-Türkiye İlişkileri: Atlıkarınca Yolculuğu”, AB bütünleşmesinin temellerine, kurumsal yapısına ve AB-Türkiye ilişkilerine ışık tutan bir başucu kitabı niteliği taşımakta. Profesör Özerdem, AB’nin işleyişini güncel bir perspektifle değerlendirmekte, kurumsal mekanizmanın dönüşümünü güncel bilgilerle harmanlayarak AB’nin genel yapısı ve işleyişi konusunda kapsamlı bilgi sunarken uzun yıllardır pek çok kriz, kaçırılan fırsat ve sancılı bir diyalog çerçevesinde devam eden Türkiye-AB ilişkileri sorunsalını, uluslararası ilişkilerin yeni dinamikleri ve bu dinamiklerin AB ve Türkiye’ye açtığı yeni perspektiften analiz etmekte. Akıcı üslubu, sunduğu tarihsel bilgiler ve güncel analizler ile “Avrupa Birliği ve Avrupa Birliği-Türkiye İlişkileri: Atlıkarınca Yolculuğu”, bu alanda bilgi birikimine ve akademik donanıma sahip olmak isteyen okuyucuların kütüphanelerinde mutlaka bulunması gereken bir eser niteliğinde.

Doç. Dr. Sinem Ünaldılar Kocamaz, Ege Üniversitesi

The book “Digital Transformation in Banking Industry – Financial Security, Audit and Business Perspective” explores the effect of digital transformation on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regime by focusing on digital Know Your Client (eKYC), artificial intelligence in AML, crypto currency, and virtual assets by drawing attention on ongoing compliance challenges in “virtual assets era”. Furthermore, it explores Fintechs and future of conventional banking as well as remote auditing in banking industry.

This edition explores Fintechs and the future of conventional banking. This is to examine the Fintech structures that have recently gained great importance in the world and to evaluate the possible effects of the developments on traditional banking in the future. Considering the innovations that Fintech structures bring to payment systems, their impact on credit markets and the structure of blockchain-linked contracts, it is expected that they will have greater effects on the financial system in the future. In this context, the book analysis the effects of these structures on traditional banking by including the recent literature on the subject.

Remote auditing is one of the common methods that is suitable for today’s world with its flexible and technology-based structure. In our book we have dedicated a chapter which explores remote auditing (also known as virtual audit) and challenges as well as advantages of applying it.

A chapter is dedicated to AML Programs in Banking Industry in Covid-19 Era, which identifies challenges, good practices, and policy reactions to new ML/TF risks which can be also defined as financial security risks arising during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis and due to impact of digital transformation in banking industry.

A special attention is dedicated to the artificial intelligence in AML structures in banking and the role of artificial intelligence for detecting money laundering cases by decreasing the number of “false alerts” and increasing the quality of “real matches”. The book explores the role of artificial intelligence on increasing the efficiency and decreasing the manual work on daily basis for AML Compliance Officers.

The book explores virtual currency and blockchain by identifying ongoing compliance challenges from decentralized platforms, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchangers, anonymity-enhanced cryptocurrencies, and “jurisdictional arbitrage” (the ability of criminal actors to route their activity through countries with weak AML/CFT regimes). Blockchain/ Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) applications aside, certain properties of Virtual Currencies (including VCs associated with Initial Coin Offering – ICOs) entail special Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC) risks, some of which are detailed in our book.

Nowadays the Digital Identity (DI) services help financial institutions, especially banking industry, to offer several services efficiently and properly to their clients. By keeping this in mind, the measures for Covid-19, offering services in distance remains the best solution in the market. The DI provides provable and sharable identity, which is particularly important when on-boarding clients but also has a key protection role to play when users are transacting. In our book we have dedicated a chapter related to digital ID system and eKYC.

We believe this edition contributes to current literature for the effect of digital transformation in banking industry from the financial security, audit and business perspective and it is important for compliance officers and bankers, policy makers, strategists, academics, students, and professionals in the field of compliance.