Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JAN 2021年1月 亞博匯 48 and ongoing case so I will not focus on the what, why, when, where or how, but rather on preventative measures that could have been taken in the past to possibly help prevent what happened. The recent ICE Digital Webinar that focused on Back to the Basics reminded me of a simple but basic preventative measure that works. Many years ago, I worked for a well-known major casino company that was becoming very aggressively involved in international casino marketing, opening numerous branch offices and bank accounts all around the world to support the marketing efforts of its international staff. Many of these employees were relatively new, to the field itself and to the casino cage and marketing. Therefore, our concern was to learn more about banking systems and procedures, bank wire transfers, and handling of cash deposits from players, junkets and independent reps. Looking back, I realize today how naïve and vulnerable we were at the time. Nevertheless, we made a very concerted effort to learn as much as we could about money laundering and how we could help prevent it in our casino. Our international bank at that time was Mellon Bank, headquartered in New York City. I was part of a team assigned to visit with the top executives of the bank who oversaw wire transfers and AML efforts. Mellon Bank has an interesting history. According to Wikipedia, “The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, commonly known as BNY Mellon, is an American multinational investment banking services holding company headquartered in New York City. BNY Mellon was formed from the merger of The Bank REVENUE US$20.82 billion (2019) 收入 208.2億美元（2019） OPERATING INCOME US$5.58 billion (2019) 營業收入 55.8億美元（2019年） NET INCOME US$4.25 billion (2019) 淨收入 42.5億美元（2019年） AUM US$1.9 trillion (2019) 管理資產 1.9萬億美元（2019） TOTAL ASSETS US$381.50 billion (2019) 總資產 3815億美元（2019） TOTAL EQUITY US$41.58 billion (2019) 權益總額 415.8億美元（2019年） NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 48,400 (2019) 員工人數 48,400 (2019) WEBSITE BNYMellon.com 網站 BNYMellon.com COLUMNISTS MELLON BANK 梅隆銀行