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Privacy rules and unclear expectations as to when banks should cut ties with riskier clients obscure whether the nearly 100 global lenders cited in thousands of leaked suspicious activity reports fully followed anti-money laundering rules, sources told ACAMS moneylaundering.com. The FinCEN Files, an unprecedented leak from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of 2,100 SARs that together flag more than $2 trillion in suspicious transactions over two decades, has fueled dozens of articles by BuzzFeed News, The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and other outlets since Sept. 20. Those stories appear to highlight a widespread willingness of banks...