One of the goals in the APG's Strategic Plan is to identify money laundering and terrorist financing trends in the Asia/Pacific region. The strategies to achieve this goal include:
- Developing and maintaining an APG programme of research to identify and analyse priority AML/CFT issues and case studies;
- Supporting and promoting the work of APG project groups to explore and address specific issues; and
- Supporting and providing education and information exchange programmes to share the findings of project groups.
In addition to the APG's Strategic Plan, the APG has a strategic framework for the collection, analysis and dissemination of typologies information. The framework places a responsibility on APG members and observers to consider and analyse typologies information in four ways:
- to undertake analyses of typologies topics;
- to produce analytical reports or summaries of typologies subjects;
- to convene annual typologies workshops; and
- to publish annual typologies reports.
The APG, in close partnership with the Academy of Excellence in Financial Crime Investigation and Compliance at Griffith University, has released a public database of more than 10,000 case studies from APG typologies products, mutual evaluation reports, and publications spanning more than 20 years. This database draws on APG typologies products developed by the APG membership which look at fraud, corruption, environmental crimes and terrorist financing, among other crime types, methods and trends.
The typologies database is accessible to the public via https://gdtapps.com.au/APGML/. Please contact us if you have any questions about the database or notice any inaccuracies.
The APG Strategic Plan and the Typologies Framework are available from the Documents section of this website.