Suspicious activity reports submitted by staff at financial firms have been steadily increasing in number year-on-year since 2017, according to data from the FCA.
The regulator's report Financial Crime: analysis of firms' 2017-2020 REP-CRIM data has revealed that staff have increasingly been reporting suspicious occurrences involving illicit financial activity to internal staff and to external regulators. Reports have risen from 887,500 in 2017-18, to 934,136 in 2018-19, and again to 1,028,260 in the year 2019-20, reflecting a 16% increase overall during the period 2017-18 to 2019-20. The report, which compared crime data from over 2,300 firms over the course of the three years, also revealed that the retail banking sector accounted for 78% of ...
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