CURENTIS News Series on Terrorist Financing
"We fight financial crime" - In the fight against international terrorism, financial service providers have an extremely important role. In a special news series in the coming weeks, CURENTIS will provide information on the many facets of this important topic and highlight patterns by which terrorist financing can be detected.
Below is an overview of some topics from our news series:
- Treatment of the Foreign Trade and Payments Act in connection with terrorist organizations
- Definition of terrorist financing and differences from other AFC risks.
- Compliance with extraterritorial laws and sanctions lists
- Consequences of Violation of Anti-Terrorist Financing Laws - Why Stricter Standards are De facto Set for Banks than for Security Agencies?
- Information deficits in the identification of suspicious transactions and business relationships
- Structure and financial flows of terrorist organizations
The author is Ms. Patricia Kopietz, who can draw on in-depth knowledge in the field of criminal sciences and has spent many years working on the topics of organized crime, extremism and terrorism. Patricia Kopietz has been a consultant at CURENTIS since April 2023.