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Why do bankers behave so badly? They make too much money to ask questions

  • Written by Mark Crosby, Professor, Monash University
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Over the past 16 months journalists have been scouring through more than 2,000 Suspicious Activity Reports originally sent by banks to the United States Treasury, before being leaked to Buzzfeed and then passed along to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

The reports relate to more than US$2 trillion...

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