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Nations on the fringes of Europe must broadly improve anti-money laundering supervision, enhance corporate transparency, convict more financial criminals and seize more illicit assets, an intergovernmental group warned Friday. Moneyval, a regional affiliate of the Financial Action Task Force, found after evaluating the AML regimes of 19, mainly small European countries for effectiveness over the past six years that most of them adequately assess their exposure to financial crime, make good use of financial intelligence, and cooperate with foreign counterparts and investigations. But their efforts to achieve other outcomes of effectiveness are "particularly weak" in the areas of financial supervision,...