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NEWS: Calls to raise US $10,000 Currency Transaction Report threshold with inflation branded ‘populist’

By PAUL O’DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent

A PROPOSAL to raise the threshold for CTRs (Currency Transaction Reports) in line with inflation is “populist”, an anti-financial crime expert has said.

Jim Richards, the CEO of anti-financial crime firm RegTech Consulting, said proposals to raise the $10,000 limit is a “lazy, knee-jerk, naive, populist approach to solving the problem of making BSA [Bank Secrecy Act] reporting more effective and efficient”.

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