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Judgment & ambiguity · When to escalate

A long-standing, high-value client is suddenly moving money in a pattern that trips your monitoring — structured just under reporting thresholds — but there’s a plausible commercial explanation and no hard proof of anything wrong. When does this stop being your judgment call, and what do you do in the meantime?

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The moment it trips monitoring and I can’t rule out the innocent explanation, it stops being solely my call — suspicion, not proof, is the bar for escalation, and the client’s value is exactly the bias I have to discount.

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