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NEWS: UK wants to make sure SARs ‘have the most impact’, NCA’s Adrian Searle tells IAFCS 2024

Adrian Searle, director of the National Economic Crime Centre at the National Crime Agency, speaking at the ‘International Anti-Financial Crime Summit 2024’ in London

BY PAUL O’DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent

The UK is considering changing the threshold for when banks would file suspicious transactions, one of the country’s leading AML figures has said.

Adrian Searle, director of the National Economic Crime Centre.(NECC) at the National Crime Agency, said there is currently a sense from many analysts that many SARs (suspicious activity reports) are not useful.

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