Banks' efforts to curb money laundering and terror financing may have backfired.

The latest revelations about government snooping have to do with money transfers.

Despite rough economic times, remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean were up 8 percent from 2010 to 2011.

As Western Union earnings show, the global remittance business is at record levels.

Jobless claims had been on the decline over the past month or so, and with the unemployment rate going down, we have seen an uptick of Latino immigrant workers in this country, who are sending money back home.