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Terrorist financing typologies that many in the banking compliance industry have struggled to find do exist, but they are initially difficult to identify, according to Grahame White, a detective constable for the National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit in the United Kingdom's Metropolitan Police. Internationally blacklisted organizations like Hamas and LTTE continue to use simple fraud and complex schemes to defraud banks and raise cash, said White. What may look like a loan gone bad, for example, may be one of several signs that a customer has ties to terrorism. White, who helped investigate the July 7, 2005 al-Qaida London bombings,...