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Among the partnerships the UK Border Agency is hailing in its recent document, Enfocring the deal, on immigration enforcement, is with the financial services sector.
The downloadable report says: "Last year, we conducted a pilot data-matching exercise to see whether some immigration offenders were also seeking to defraud banks and other financial services institutions. They were. So now we will go further.
Subject to Parliamentary approval, we will become members of the fraud prevention organisation CIFAS in summer 2008. This will enable us to share our “watchlists” of immigration offenders,
through the CIFAS database, with over 270 financial services, telecoms and utility companies who are also members of CIFAS."
