The European Commission wants to strengthen supervision over banks and other financial institutions to toughen up its fight against money laundering and terrorist financing after admitting that present measures have “failed all too often.”  

The EU has proposed giving the European Banking Authority, the bloc’s supervisory body for financial services, a powerful new mandate to monitor what firms are doing to tackle money laundering. 

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