滋长蔓延 meaning in English

grow and spread

I am in no position to do so , except to say that financial globalisation , helped along by the advance of information technology , is fertile ground for the globalisation of financial crimes or the proliferation of crimes in global finance
我不是说金融罪行会像非典型肺炎那样向全球扩散，造成严重的破坏。但随资讯科技不断进步，金融全球化可能为金融罪行滋长蔓延提供温。