📣 On September 15-16, FINTRAC and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) co-hosted the second Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing Symposium in Washington, D.C.
Following last year’s inaugural event in Ottawa, this year’s Symposium brought together leaders and senior officials from financial intelligence units, law enforcement and government agencies from Canada, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, as well as major U.S. and Canada-based financial institutions.
The Symposium tackled a number of transnational financial crime threats such as the exploitation of cryptocurrency by transnational criminal organizations, the role of professional money laundering networks, illegal fentanyl and other synthetic opioid trafficking, human trafficking and online child sexual exploitation.
FINTRAC works closely with FinCEN and other public and private sector partners to advance Project Guardian, Project Protect and Project Shadow, which are focused on Read More