The Egmont Group published keynote remarks by its Chair, Elżbieta Franków-Jaśkiewicz, at the 42nd Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, focusing on the evolving role of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) in detecting suspicious activity and ensuring intelligence leads to operational action against financial crime. The address highlighted priorities including tackling cyber-enabled fraud, environmental crime and sanctions evasion, while preparing for emerging threats such as AI-enabled fraud and crypto asset laundering. It also called for expanded public-private partnerships to support real-time threat response and stronger international cooperation with counterparts and organisations including INTERPOL, the Financial Action Task Force, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Separately, the Chair met with FATF Vice-President Giles Thomson and MENAFATF Vice-President Hamed Saif Al-Zaabi, and noted the Egmont Group’s network of 182 member FIUs supporting secure intelligence exchange, strategic partnerships and capacity-building.
Egmont Group 2025-09-10
Egmont Group chair outlines FIU priorities on cyber-enabled fraud, sanctions evasion and crypto asset laundering
The Egmont Group's Chair, Elżbieta Franków-Jaśkiewicz, emphasized the evolving role of Financial Intelligence Units in combating financial crime at the 42nd Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, highlighting priorities such as cyber-enabled fraud and crypto asset laundering, and advocating for enhanced public-private partnerships and international cooperation.