18.10.2006 Walkers, the global offshore law firm dealing with corporate and international finance law with a focus on asset finance, capital markets and structured finance, hedge funds and private equity, announced a significant growth in the number of complex, high-value corporate transactions and complicated international litigation cases in the British Virgin Islands. The BVI jurisdiction is seeing an exciting rise in major institutional work and cases with global impact, the complexity of walkers' work in the BVI continues to increase as well.

31.10.2006 China adopted an anti-money laundering law, in which the definition of money-laundering crimes is has been broadened. Previously, the anti-money laundering law defined drug trafficking, terrorism, organized crime and smuggling as money laundering crimes. As to corruption and bribe-taking, violating financial management regulations and financial fraud, they were not defined in this law. Drafting the law began in 2004. The new law will come into effect on 1 January 2007. The law plans to exchange information with international anti-money laundering organizations to fight money laundering on the global scale. The law is also supposed to help facilitating China's application to the Financial Action Task Force.

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