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I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some
days I get more out of the New York Times.
President John F. Kennedy
Financial intelligence (FININT) has joined the intelligence
lexicon in the last few years, although “nancial intelligence”
has been around for a while longer. FININT, like SIGINT
(signals intelligence), HUMINT (human intelligence), ELINT
(electronic intelligence), and IMINT (imaging intelligence), is a
way of gathering and analyzing information in order to inform
decision makers or better understand events. For law enforce-
ment, particularly those concerned with nancial crimes such
as money laun ...