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NEWS: Canadian banks: ‘Ineffective AML rules means we submit 12 times as many SARs as U.S. firms’

File photo, for illustration purposes only, shows a branch of TD Bank in Chinatown in New York City.

By Paul O’Donoghue, Senior Correspondent

Some of Canada’s largest banks have called out the country’s AML regime as ineffective and beauractaic.

The Canadian Bankers Association (CBA) highlighted how despite a surge in the number of suspicious activity reports (SARs) submitted to regulators, money laundering convictions have actually dropped.

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