Fraud control in offshore banking centres

New measures to prevent financial crime in the offshore banking centres of Latin America and the Caribbean are helping to bring about more effective controls. Ricardo Alba of Panama welcomes the trend towards closer international cooperation and greater vigilance. Article by Ricardo M. Alba (President, Agrica-Lex, Panama) based on a lecture delivered at the Sixteenth Symposium on Economic Crime, Jesus College, Cambridge, in September 1998, published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.