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”.