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A House lawmaker is set to unveil a measure that would broadly expand anti-money laundering controls and require the U.S. financial intelligence unit to critique the findings of financial regulators. The bill, slated to be introduced by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), would order federal banking regulators, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to give the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) data on their formal and informal enforcement actions. The bureau, which issues anti-money laundering (AML) rules and administers the U.S. database of regulatory reports on financial crimes, would identify "systemic or repeated...