[jordanbaucke]

@jcranmer agreed. US financial markets (breadth/depth) / US law influence over multi-jurisdicational banking entities, ensures that US law can/will be enforced by almost all players.

Should the authorities in a particular jurisdiction fail to enforce financial crimes, indicting a bank or sanctioning an individual in that region can effectively block all counter-parties from doing business with them (as they are now doing business with a sanctioned or indicted party).

It's hard to explain in laymens terms without sounding like some kind of "Illuminati-nut" (for lack of a better term) ):

And also requires a better understanding of interbank standards and practices, money/current-markets, SWIFT, etc.