Money Laundering Strategy

2007 National Money Laundering Strategy
The 2007 Strategy addresses the priority threats and vulnerabilities identified by the Money Laundering Threat Assessment released in 2006.

U .S. Money Laundering Threat Assessment (MLTA)
On January 11, 2006, the Treasury Department and its partner agencies announced the release of the U.S. Money Laundering Threat Assessment (MLTA).  The MLTA is the first government-wide analysis of money laundering trends and vulnerabilities in the United States.  Its purpose is to inform the law enforcement community, policy makers, and regulators in their efforts to combat money laundering strategically.  MLTA Fact Sheet

2003 National Money Laundering Strategy
The 2003 National Money Laundering Strategy continues to expand the framework for identifying, disrupting, and dismantling global terrorist financing and money laundering operations. The Strategy emphasizes the ongoing need for cooperation between the intelligence and law enforcement communities to achieve the common goal of closing off the financial conduits that threaten National Security. Ensuring effective regulation to protect the international financial system remains the paramount objective of the Strategy. The 2003 Strategy also highlights recent achievements in the fight to stop the money as well as addressing evolving methods of terrorist financing.

2002 National Money Laundering Strategy
The 2002 National Money Laundering Strategy is a blueprint for how the government will address critical issues surrounding the enforcement of financial crimes. The 2002 Strategy breaks important new ground, and describes, for the first time, a coordinated, government-wide strategy to combat terrorist financing. The Strategy also provides baseline facts and figures that can help determine how well the Federal government is succeeding in its efforts to detect, prevent, and deter money laundering – a major goal of Secretary O’Neill. The 2002 Strategy reports on the progress that we have made to implement the goals and objectives of the 2001 Strategy, and sets forth an ambitious agenda of work for the remainder of 2002.

2001 National Money Laundering Strategy
The goals, objectives, and priorities of the 2001 National Money Laundering Strategy provide the framework to deter and destroy largescale money laundering organizations and systems. The 2001 Strategy recognizes that money laundering is an integral component of large-scale criminal enterprises. The goal of the 2001 Strategy is to disrupt and dismantle large-scale money laundering organizations and prosecute money launderers to the fullest extent of the law.

FATF Annual Money Laundering Methods and Trends

Last Updated: May 11, 2007