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.
Germany's Central Office for Sanctions Enforcement appears in some ways to have hit stride since launching in January 2023, with the government recently disclosing that the new agency has more than 100 cases underway as compared to only eight last summer.