| Please indicate the laws and procedures available to regulate alternative remittance systems, including systems of, or similar to, the kind known as hawala. |
| For a flavour of what the Arabs call hawala and the Chinese fei ch'ien, or flying money, try north London's Seven Sisters Road. |
| Government aid agencies then used the same informal banking system – the hawala – to send money to 1.5 million people, saving hundreds of thousands more. |
| This is a reference to concerns about both formal remitters and informal value-transfer systems, such as the hawala networks that originated in South Asia and have become global in recent decades. |
| To move large sums of money, they can avoid the banking system by using hawala money movers or couriers. |
| In many parts of the world cash transfers, especially via hawala brokers and other alternative remittance systems, are an essential part of the economy. |
