Between rocks and hard places - FIUs

No public agency is ever likely to claim it has sufficient resource to do its job properly but financial intelligence units, handling seemingly relentless growth in suspicious activity report volumes while battling for resources, just as focus on AML effectiveness is sharpening, are in an especially tight spot. Keith Nuthall, Paul Cochrane, Gemma Handy, in St John's, Antigua, and Wachira Kigotho, in Nairobi find the same concerns repeated in jurisdictions across the globe.

No public agency is ever likely to claim it has sufficient resource to do its job properly but financial intelligence units, handling seemingly relentless growth in suspicious activity report volumes while battling for resources, just as focus on AML effectiveness is sharpening, are in an especially tight spot. Keith Nuthall, Paul Cochrane, Gemma Handy, in St John's, Antigua, and Wachira Kigotho, in Nairobi find the same concerns repeated in jurisdictions across the globe.