The Types of Pathology in the Financial Markets in Selected Western European Countries: Analysis of Statistical Data

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present two main pathology of a financial nature: money laundering and forgery, from the perspective of the frequency of their implementation, the general scale indicated phenomena and their level of intensity in selected Western European countries (France, Belgium). The proposed in the article juxtaposition indicated pathology is expedient, because they represent some of the most dangerous economic phenomena affecting the destabilization of economies of state at the macroeconomic. Presented in article analysis is to determine whether the countries that in economic and financial terms have many similarities, are also similar in the scale of pathogenic events. According to data provided by the Traitement du renseignement et action contre les circuits financiers clandestins (TRACFIN) in France the number of suspicious transactions, using money laundering continues to increase. In 1996 estimated value was approx. 9785 while in 2006 this number increased to 13,206 and in 2014 reached the level of 29,508. Meanwhile, for comparison with the data presented by the Cellule de Traitement des Informations Financières [Belgian Financial Intelligence Processing Unit] (CTIF) in Belgium, the number of suspicious transactions in 2010 reminded at the level 17,122 and in 2012 increased slightly to 19,152. Already, therefore, the preliminary findings confirmed that these threats etiology financial maintain upward trend, albeit with varying intensity.