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FCA wants firms to do more to disrupt money mule activity

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Reporting of fraud by firms lagging offboarding of mules, but regulator notes high incidence of SARs reporting.

According to the regulator a key issue is that “the proportion of identified money mules being reported” to the National Fraud Database (NFD) varies considerably between firms.

It has identified a number of key weaknesses in the utilization of the NFD by market participants including:

  • firms not conducting real time