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US FinCrime watchdog is ‘overstretched’ and needs re-imagining; new report and suggests major overhauls for struggling agency, including a ‘FinCEN Manhattan Project’

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.

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