New Egmont Group resources on fighting financial crime
The Egmont Group, made up of 167 financial intelligence units (FIUs) worldwide, regularly publishes resources to help improve anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) systems and processes to better detect and report financial crime.
Members of the Egmont Group, including AUSTRAC, exchange expertise and financial intelligence to combat ML/TF and other offences. The group also explores global ML/TF trends and produces indicators and insight papers to inform operational and policy outcomes.
Recent resources published by Egmont include:
- Extreme right-wing terrorism financing – key lessons, best practices and case studies to help the fight against extreme right wing terrorism financing.
- Best Egmont Case Award Book II publication – 26 AML/CTF case studies submitted by FIUs, including one from AUSTRAC.
- Digital Transformation of AML/CFT for Operational Agencies – this includes a joint Financial Action Task Force/Egmont Group report looking at the detection of suspicious activities and analysis of financial intelligence.