FIUFinancial Intelligence Unit
A national center receiving and analyzing relevant financial intelligence and sharing its analysis with competent authorities.
What does it mean?
English expansion: Financial Intelligence Unit
A national center receiving and analyzing relevant financial intelligence and sharing its analysis with competent authorities.
How is this concept used?
An FIU is a national centre that receives relevant financial information, analyses it and disseminates analysis to competent authorities. It can bring information from multiple reports together. Its institutional role differs from the role of a private wallet-screening service.
Documented examples
Documented example
FinCEN: U.S. SAR reporting system
FinCEN’s official SAR page directs U.S. financial institutions to its BSA E-Filing system. This named reporting channel illustrates how financial information is submitted to a national FIU for analysis.
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Documented example
UKFIU: receiving and sharing SAR intelligence
The NCA identifies UKFIU as the unit receiving, analysing and sharing intelligence from the UK SAR regime. This actual national unit connects financial reporting to law enforcement in the UK and abroad.
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Connection to a wallet report
A wallet report may be supporting material in a wider review. Its existence does not mean an FIU has received, reviewed or approved it.
A common misconception
An analytical lead is not a court decision. A private screening result does not establish an official investigation.
Related reading
- STR · Suspicious Transaction Report
- AML · Anti-Money Laundering
- CFT · Countering the Financing of Terrorism
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