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FATF chief is scathing of those in financial services who ‘box tick’ their way through AML. David Lewis demands FinCrime professionals ‘take more risks and stop just ticking the boxes’

By DAN BYRNE for AMLi

Bankers and those in financial services need to be more aware of the realities of anti-money laundering and be more invested in the key roles they play in discovering and flagging dirty money, FATF Executive Secretary David Lewis said.

“As AML professionals, we all need to take more risks and stop just ticking the boxes,” David Lewis demanded.

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