goals

Gather and analyze information from the intelligence, law enforcement, and financial communities as to how terrorists and other criminals earn, move, and store money.

Take appropriate policy, regulatory, or enforcement action based on this analysis, to include the following:

• Freeze the assets of terrorists, drug kingpins, and their support networks

• Cut off corrupt foreign jurisdictions and financial institutions from the U.S. financial system

• Develop and enforce regulations to address the vulnerabilities of the U.S. to terrorist financing and money laundering

• Promote the international adoption and implementation of counter-terrorist financing and anti-money laundering standards

• Trace and repatriate assets looted by corrupt foreign officials in such countries as Iraq, Liberia, and Haiti

• Promote a meaningful exchange of information with the private financial sector to help it detect and address threats to the financial system