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Maltese banks lack the means to mitigate the risk of illicit foreign capital flowing through their nation's relatively "large financial sector," according to the Malta Financial Services Authority, or MFSA. In an Oct. 9 presentation posted Wednesday on the website of Malta's Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit, or FIAU, Maltese authorities list key findings from their first-ever national assessment of the country's unique vulnerabilities to money laundering, terrorist funding and other financial crimes. The self assessment, which the government completed in 2017 but has declined to publish for national security reasons, indicates that banks, online casinos, payment services providers and other...