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The Egmont Group, a Toronto-based association of financial intelligence units, suspended El Salvador from membership on June 5 on the grounds that its terrorist financing controls are inadequate. Specifically, the Egmont Group advised the country that it needs to widen the scope of what constitutes terrorist financing, according to Rolando Monroy, director of El Salvador's financial intelligence unit. Currently, Salvadorian anti-terrorist financing obligations are limited to filing suspicious transaction reports on entities identified on international sanctions lists or transactions originating in sanctioned countries. El Salvador isn't the first country to be suspended from membership. In June 2007, the Egmont Group...