ABSTRACT
Much attention and funding has been given to anti-money laundering (AML) efforts in the post-9/11 era. New rules, laws, and regulations are geared toward collecting more information in an effort to thwart terrorist activities and other related and undesirable operations. The amount of money laundered globally is thought to easily exceed $1 trillion1 annually. To help combat this volume of fi nancial crimes, a majority of international governments have created fi nancial intelligence units (FIUs) to defend the integrity of worldwide fi nancial markets.
