FINTRAC

FINTRAC, aka Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, is an organization that keeps an eye out for financially sketchy dealings, such as money laundering and illegal transactions. Canada doesn’t want money funding terrorist organizations if they can help it.

FINTRAC is one peice of the larger Egmont Group, an international group of analytical, financial watchdog organizations. FinCEN (the U.S.’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) and NCA (the UK’s National Crime Agency) also have seats at the Egmont Group table.

While FINTRAC operates independently from law enforcement, they do swap info and help each other out sometimes...but all within legal boundaries, including the Access to Information Act, which requires all that info to go public.