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Editor’s Note: In this installment, the ACAMS moneylaundering.com legal team covers moves by six Caribbean nations to increase corporate transparency. The Panama Papers and subsequent leaks of corporate and financial records have shown the extent to which corrupt officials and other criminals use shell companies, "shelf" companies and complex financial structures to move illicit proceeds without detection. Caribbean jurisdictions such as Aruba, Barbados and the British Virgin Islands appeared countless times throughout the leaks, with the Bahamas in particular being identified as an early pioneer of facilitating secretive offshore finance through networks of opaque legal entities. In July 2021, Barbados...