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The City’s dirty finances need a spring clean

Financial services firms and regulators need to fight back against money laundering to ditch our 'Londongrad' reputation

London must look through a global lens to take on criminal finance

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Stella Fau Clarke is chief strategy officer at compliance software firm Fenergo

Financial institutions across the capital are plagued with a dirty money problem. The City is well overdue a spring clean of its anti-money laundering practices. With the distraction of Brexit we have yet to see truly meaningful changes. It is time to rethink the approach.

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