The global network of Financial Intelligence Units that exchanges suspicious-transaction information across borders.
The Egmont Group is the global association of national Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) — the agencies that receive suspicious-transaction reports from banks and other obliged entities and turn them into investigative leads. Founded in 1995 at the Egmont-Arenberg Palace in Brussels, it now connects more than 170 FIUs and provides the secure channels through which they share information across borders, typically via the Egmont Secure Web.
Egmont's role is operational, not regulatory: it sets membership criteria that mirror the FATF Recommendations on FIU operation, runs working groups on typologies, and — most consequentially — facilitates FIU-to-FIU information requests on individual cases. For cross-border money laundering investigations, the Egmont channel is often the only way that one country's FIU can quickly access reporting that exists in another country's FIU.
Bucephalus reporting modules generate STR/SAR exports in formats that match Egmont-aligned national FIU schemas, so that the cross-border information flow remains intact when an investigation goes international.
