As I continued to lecture, conduct training classes, and present at anti-money laundering and law enforcement conferences, I began to understand that the audience, whether they be compliance officers or law enforcement investigators, were reactive to money laundering, and not proactive to its identification and suppression. I realised that they were not anticipating emerging threats as they surfaced in the global financial picture. By the time they became aware that a new method of laundering, or new opportunity, or permutation or combination of an established scheme, had been employed, the damage had already been done. I sensed that I had found my niche; increasing their level of sensitivity and awareness to current events as the instrument upon which imaginative money launderers practise their profession.

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