Many regional financial institutions in Japan have decided to raise fees on overseas remittance in order to cover the growing costs of anti-terrorist financing measures.
Since the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, international efforts to monitor and combat money laundering and terrorist financing have been repeatedly strengthened. As a result, there has also been an increase in administrative workload put on banks, such as the burden of identity confirmation.
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