Talk:Financial intelligence

Categories
I removed espionage, as the bulk of FININT comes from legally defined reports from financial institutions. While I can't rule out the occasional tip from an insider, espionage really does not apply here. Espionage is concerned with people, trusted with sensitive information, illegally providing it to unauthorized parties. In the case of the US, at least, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (GLBA), and that which is variously called the Bank Secrecy Act, Currency and Foreign Transaction Reporting Act, or Anti-Money Laundering Law, all prescribe that sensitive information is to be given to legally authorized parties. While there are privacy concerns, this is clearly not unauthorized disclosure.

It is arguable if it is truly an intelligence collection technique. There are arguments that it is more analysis of raw material than the collection of the raw material. We really need two terms, one for the reporting and one for the analysis.

Another awkward problem in categorization is this, more than most intelligence discipline, often overlaps with conventional law enforcement. In the US, the reports go to a financial law enforcement organization which, if a report suggests terrorist or espionage, only then sends it to an intelligence agency. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the US Department of the Treasury is not generally considered part of the intelligence community. Howard C. Berkowitz 17:21, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Globalising and generalizing
Right now, the specific examples of required reporting in the US are all from the US. Examples from other countries are very welcome. If, as in the US, there are different FININT organizations working domestically and internationally, that also would help. Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 12:08, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Country List of the Financial intelligence Units ?
Wikipedia should help fighting crime, also fraud and money laundring. Is there already a list of the Financial Intelligence Units of every country? So that if you get a call from a company, you can always turn to the countries'FIU and see if the company is indeed registered and has the licences e.g. to give advise on financial matters. Thx.--SvenAERTS (talk) 07:53, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Merge Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Financial Intelligence Unit Network into this page?
Should the information in the above old AfC submission be merged here? The page will be deleted as a stale draft soon unless something is done with it. &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 19:39, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

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Financial Intelligence Unit of India
@Michael Hardy Is it Right Decision to merge an Independent national agency wiki page named Financial Intelligence Unit fiuindia.gov.in of India to Financial Intelligence without any research ??.. Its an Immature Dicision !! Or Some Admins abusing their powers for propaganda ??.. I have Objection regarding these merger things!! Paged should be freed.FIU is genuine topic. --Kulbhushan Jhadav (talk)
 * As far as I know no such merger has happened. Michael Hardy (talk) 03:16, 26 March 2020 (UTC)