FLINT

The Financial Liaison and Intelligence Network (FLINT) is a public-private partnership led by the GFIU. It brings together key public sector agencies, including the Royal Gibraltar Police, HM Customs, the Tax Office, and the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission, alongside a number of leading banks operating in Gibraltar.

FLINT is designed to harness the combined expertise, insights, and resources of both the public and private sectors to combat money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing. Public-private partnerships like FLINT play an important role in the fight against economic crime by creating trust, improving collaboration, and enabling faster, more targeted responses to threats. By sharing relevant intelligence, trends, and risks, both sectors can act more effectively and proactively in preventing financial crime.

While FLINT does not replace the legal requirement for reporting entities to submit Suspicious Activity Reports, it enhances the sharing of strategic and operational intelligence through legal gateways provided under Gibraltar’s legislative framework. This facilitates a better understanding of criminal modus operandi and helps detect and disrupt illicit financial activity.

Through FLINT, law enforcement agencies can provide the financial sector with valuable insights into emerging risks and vulnerabilities. In turn, banks contribute by highlighting unusual trends and suspicious activities observed in the financial system. This two-way flow of information supports a more robust and informed National Risk Assessment and enables the development of typologies that reflect the latest methods used by criminals.