Domestic banks, for example, have about $ billion in assets, while international banks and trust companies control close to $ billion in assets. While, as mentioned, domestic bank had gross deposit receipts of $ billion in 2018, SWIFT data reveal that gross cross-border funds movement amounted to several trillion US dollars.
There are four large and essentially permanent sources of AML/CFT risk in the international sector. Our national strategy is not to remove the underlying risks, but, instead, to control them such that the sector is overwhelmingly focused on clean business.