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Not enough needles and too much hay: the problem with Suspicious Activity Reports

February 12, 2021

FRA Partner Charlie Steele recently spoke with FinCrime Report about how effective the Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) system is following the publication of the FinCEN Files. Published last September, the FinCEN Files shed a light on a creaking system under which millions of reports of suspicious activity are filed to over-stretched authorities every year.

In "Not enough needles and too much hay: the problem with Suspicious Activity Reports," author Carl Brown examines how to make it easier for government agencies to find the useful "needles" in the "haystack" of SAR reports.

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