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European FIUs Struggle to Hire, Retain Qualified Personnel

Gabriel Vedrenne
Senior Reporter

Long-term job vacancies continue to plague the national financial intelligence units of Croatia, Romania and several other European countries, annual reports and other details obtained by ACAMS moneylaundering.com indicate. Whether they are fully dedicated to collecting details of potentially illicit transactions or also tasked with supervising banks and other financial services companies for anti-money laundering purposes, most national FIUs in Europe have roughly doubled their headcounts over the past decade amid an ongoing, continent-wide hiring campaign. FIU-the Netherlands plans to recruit 26 full-time employees by the end of this year, UKFIU wants more than a dozen new staff, Italy's Unita...

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