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Some of the country's largest financial institutions are increasingly seeking to hire more data analysts in efforts to make better sense and use of complex sets of transactional and customer information, say sources. Anti-money laundering personnel at these institutions have found technical expertise to be in short supply in recent years, hampering their efforts to compile and process data from disparate sources, infer what the information suggests about customer behavior and adjust how they are monitored, and use advanced metrics to gauge the overall quality of their screening procedures. Increased demand for employees who can perform datacentric, compliance-related tasks has...