Organized and economic crime has increased in recent times, both in terms of complexity and scope, notes FI. Such crime includes, for example, fraud and money laundering.
Criminals need access to the financial system to realize their criminal profits so that they can be used, says FI's acting director general, Malin Alpen.
Threat to consumers
Crime is today a serious threat to companies and individual consumers. Older people are more often affected by payment and investment scams, where one is deceived into transferring money or investing in something that turns out to be something else.
Now, the authority will report back to the government on how to contribute to developing crime prevention work. In this, the authority raises more data-driven supervision with the aim of "streamlining supervision and strengthening analytical capabilities through increased use of advanced data analysis and artificial intelligence (AI)", as stated in the report.
In this way, it is possible, for example, to identify fraudulent companies and their sites more quickly. Then, FI also hopes to be able to warn consumers more quickly.
FI's mission already includes crime prevention measures. FI conducts licensing reviews for new actors in the financial market, carries out supervision so that the approximately 2,200 existing companies follow the rules, and reviews and issues new rules.
"A challenge"
Economic crime is finding new ways, do you have the opportunity to maintain the pace?
It is, of course, a challenge for us, as well as other authorities and other actors in society, to keep up with this development, says Alpen and continues:
We do what we can based on the mission and resources we have, but this is an area where we have seen that we would need more resources. We must, of course, also constantly develop our working methods so that we work more efficiently. We can never lean back.
