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Electronic Commerce: Money Laundering

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the (a) potential risk of the use of e-payment platforms for money laundering and (b) likelihood that those platforms are used to launder criminal money originating f

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
18 Oct 2024
Target answer date
24 Oct 2024
Answer
24 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the (a) potential risk of the use of e-payment platforms for money laundering and (b) likelihood that those platforms are used to launder criminal money originating f

  2. 24 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 24 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    This government is committed to supporting safe innovation within our financial technology sectors. The UK’s 2020 National Risk Assessment for money laundering and terrorist financing judged that payment and e-money services were at medium risk of money l...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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