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The financial intelligence unit of the Netherlands identified almost 40,000 transactions with a record aggregate value of €19 billion as suspicious last year, according to the agency's latest figures. In a 62-page annual report, FIU-Nederland disclosed a three-fold increase in the volume of unusual transactions reported by Dutch firms from 2018 to a record 2.5 million in 2019, but attributed most of the rise to a since-discarded rule that obliged financial institutions to flag all transfers involving entities or individuals based in jurisdictions on an EU money-laundering watchlist. Dutch lenders, money services businesses, payment services providers and other firms filed...