Financial Intelligence Unit-India and Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre sign landmark mou to combat cyber fraud and financial crimes

• Inter-agency MoU between Financial Intelligence Unit-India (FIU-IND) under the Ministry of Finance and Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) under the Ministry of Home Affairs, to institutionalise sharing of financial intelligence on cyber-enabled crimes.
• Aims to operationalise information exchange, asset recovery and protection of digital transactions by linking suspicious transaction reports (STRs) with cybercrime data.
• Examinable as a GS-III internal security + economy convergence — money laundering, cyber security and financial-sector regulation.