The FinCEN Files
The FinCEN Files investigation is based on thousands of "suspicious activity reports" (SARs) and other US government documents that BuzzFeed News has shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and more than 100 news organizations around the world. It offers an unprecedented view of global financial corruption, the banks enabling it, and the government agencies that fail to stop it.
Prior to this reporting, very few SARs had ever been revealed. The FinCEN Files encompass more than 2,100.
The FinCEN Files: Suspicious Activity Reports, Explained
Thousands of financial institution employees flagging transactions that somehow don’t look right are the world’s first line of defense against money laundering.Download FinCEN Files Transaction Data
To extract as much information as possible from the files, dozens of reporters collaborated to manually collate data on thousands of transactions.Explore the FinCEN Files Data
Explore the confidential data at the heart of the FinCEN Files.Confidential Clients
These are the people zipping money across the world thanks to the global banking system.The FinCEN Files - Part 1
Secret Documents Show How Criminals Use Famous Banks To Finance Terror And Death.The FinCEN Files - Part 2
How Deutsche Bank Let Crooked Clients Run Rampant.The FinCEN Files - Part 3
The FinCEN Files By The (Very Big) Numbers.The FinCEN Files - Part 4
The Dead Man With The Link To Two Of The World’s Largest Money Laundering Scandals.The FinCEN Files - Part 5
Here Is How Banks Have Responded To The FinCEN Files Investigation.The FinCEN Files - Part 6
Explore Thousands Of Suspicious Payments Sent Around The World.This interactive map, created by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists for the FinCEN Files investigation, shows $35 billion in transactions — reported as suspicious by banks and other financial institutions — making their way through the global financial system.
The FinCEN Files - Part 7
The Untold Story Of What Really Happened After HSBC, El Chapo’s Bank, Promised To Get Clean.The FinCEN Files - Part 8
Standard Chartered’s Problems With Suspicious Clients Didn’t Go Away. Just Like These Two Ex-Employees Had Been Saying.US Treasury Department Abandoned Major Money Laundering Case Against Dubai Gold Company
The Kaloti probe offers rare insight into the illicit gold trade.How Banks Helped Venezuela’s ‘Boligarchs’ Extract Billions
The FinCEN Files show public money pouring out of the collapsing country.HSBC Moved Vast Sums Of Dirty Money After Paying Record Laundering Fine
FinCEN Files probe reveals Europe’s biggest bank aided massive Ponzi scheme while on probation over ties to drug kingpins.Global Banks Defy U.S. Crackdowns By Serving Oligarchs, Criminals and Terrorists
The FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through major banks, swamping a broken enforcement system.Unchecked By Global Banks, Dirty Cash Destroys Dreams And Lives
From Ukraine to the United States, from Tunisia to Turkmenistan, a global ICIJ investigation details the punishing human cost of laundered trillions.Watch How Banks Move Dirty Money Around The World
The FinCEN Files investigation reveals the role of global banks in industrial-scale money laundering.