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Transfer-window AML risk: the five control failures we see most often in football clubs

The transfer window concentrates more financial crime risk into a shorter period than almost any other event in professional sport. Hundreds of millions of pounds move in weeks. Intermediaries multiply. Ownership structures that took months to construct are tested in days. And most clubs enter the window with controls that were not designed for it. Here are the five failures we see most consistently -- and why each of them matters more than ever as the regulatory environment closes in.

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