The agency leading American efforts to combat financial crime needs re-invention if it is to keep up to date with new challenges, according to a group of experts.
Washington-based illicit finance think-tank Global Financial Integrity (GFI) has said that the nation’s financial crime watchdog FinCEN is “overstretched” in a new report, and has claimed that even the most recent laws passed to aid its work are merely “tactical fixes,” for the body that ignore the best strategy.