UK ‘Fusion Cell’ Deploys Financial Intelligence Against COVID-19 Crime Wave

Helena Wood, a research fellow with the Royal United Services Institute in London, told ACAMS moneylaundering.com that the forum “has used the crisis well” to carve a niche within the U.K. law-enforcement landscape. “It has shown that there is a real role for the NECC as a coordinating bridge between the public and private sector on fraud,” Wood said. “But there still remains this problem that its relationship with policing is not what it should be.”