The Asia-Pacific region's financial intelligence agencies recently met up in Kuala Lumpur to tackle the complex and evolving CTF landscape. The backdrop to the four-day CTF Summit was the spread of ISIS-linked extremists across the region. The five-month siege in Marawi has acted as a  call-to-arms for all ASEAN countries, as well as Australia and New Zealand. The Summit heard that FIUs would have to become far more tech-savvy and interlinked to detect terrorism financing and to pre-empt national security threats.

 

Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence sat down with Dr John Moss, head of intelligence at AUSTRAC, to discuss the threats and opportunities facing FIUs and the broader AML/CTF community.