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Denmark's financial institutions would receive rapid feedback on the most suspicious transactions reported to the national financial intelligence unit, or FIU, under plans to address weaknesses that enabled the country's largest money-laundering scandal to date. On Sept. 19, a cross-party panel of Danish lawmakers agreed to a 23-page strategy for improving the domestic campaign against financial crime by expanding the size and capability of Denmark's FIU, increasing maximum monetary penalties for anti-money laundering violations and introducing stronger protections for whistleblowers, among other measures. Disclosure of the strategy comes on the heels of an internal audit published by Danske Bank, Denmark's...