ABSTRACT
A key feature of the process of growth in local and global financial crime has been a steep increase in complexity brought about, among other things, by many innovative mechanisms and instruments that have repeatedly blurred the boundaries between financial sectors. Innovative financial products and practices have more often than not generated new linkages among financial agents in different financial sectors. When Italian police developed a new intelligence strategy against mafia-type organized crime, the ambition was to change social conduct based on intelligence and analysis of extortionists, politicians linked to the mafia, eyewitness testimony, and illegal favours by white-collar workers, anti-mafia activists and potential police collaborators. The aim of intelligence strategy is to continue to develop intelligence-led policing in all parts of a nation and in all regions of the world. Strategy is a label frequently applied to a wide variety of activities, thoughts, initiatives and documents in industry and government.
