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Economic and Financial Crime, Sustainability and Good Governance

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Overview

  • Presents measures to prevent financial crime in public and private organizations
  • Discusses new trends in cybercrime
  • Illustrates the relationship between financial crime and the stability of societies

Part of the book series: Contributions to Finance and Accounting (CFA)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Financial Crimes Around the World: The Landscape Around the World Countries

  2. Economic and Political Determinants of Financial Crime

  3. The Effects of Economic and Financial Crimes on the Society

  4. Fighting Financial Crimes Strengthens the Sustainable Economy

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About this book

This book addresses the most widespread forms of financial crime today, namely corporate fraud, corruption, tax fraud, the shadow economy, informal entrepreneurship, money laundering, international informal capital flows, cybercrimes, and cryptocurrency scams. Given the rapid rise of digitalization, especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a huge surge in financial crime, especially in the form of cybercrime, which affects people’s financial security. Hence, the aim of this book is to stress the connected nature of financial crime and good governance, in order to achieve the most positive, sustainable development of society.

The book analyzes financial crime in the context of digitalization. On the one hand, digitalization offers clear advantages in terms of reducing classical types of fraud such as tax evasion, corruption, the shadow economy, etc. On the other hand, digitalization offers new channels for criminals to gain illegal benefits when operating indigital space, e.g. through cybercrime, bank fraud, FinTech fraud, e-commerce fraud, etc. In this context, the term “digital shadow economy” has recently emerged in the literature as an expression of the types of fraud committed in digital space.

In addition, the book explores issues concerning changes in regulations for various financial crimes around the world, statistics, and ways to combat digital crimes including punitive, preventive and other measures. Special attention is paid to cybercrime and cybersecurity issues, the goal being to raise readers’ awareness of these threats.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Monica Violeta Achim

About the editor

Monica Violeta Achim is professor and doctoral supervisor in the field of Finance at the Faculty of Economics  and Business Administration, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. With over 23 years of experience in academic field, she has published as author and co-author over 140 scientific articles and 25 books. In 2020 she obtained the Award for Excellence in Scientific Research, at Babeş-Bolyai University as recognition of her scientific research. She is the project leader for governmental initiatives financed by the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research in order to research financial crime.


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