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Staffing levels at most European financial intelligence units have roughly doubled over the past decade in line with massive increases in the volumes of suspicious transaction reports they must handle, data collected by ACAMS moneylaundering.com shows. At the beginning of 2014, the 22 national FIUs in Europe that made their figures publicly available or provided them to moneylaundering.com by press time, including those of Germany, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Switzerland and Ukraine, had around 1280 fulltime employees, or FTEs, on their payroll. The overall headcount doubled over the decade that followed, which alone would mark a...