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Every time Albina’s mobile phone buzzes, she winces. “It could be my sister, from Syria,” says the young woman, sitting in the kitchen of the small apartment she shares with her mother in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan.
French Finance Minister Michel Sapin will press other European Union nations to tighten rules on everything from debit cards to antiquities trading in an effort to stem financing of terrorists in the wake of last month’s attacks that killed 130 people in Paris.
Straining to cope with the influx, European countries are sharpening measures to stop the flow of refugees and migrants amid heightened security concerns following the Paris attacks last month.
The United States and Russia are negotiating a new resolution at the United Nations
On Thursday, December 17, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Jacob J. Lew will chair a Summit of Finance Ministers of the United Nations Security Council on combating ISIL financing and broader opportunities to strengthen global efforts to combat the financing of terrorism.
Art treasures looted by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) are ending up in the hands of western dealers and collectors, according to the French finance minister, Michel Sapin.
Even before the Paris attacks, the United States and its allies escalated airstrikes against the Islamic State’s oil facilities in eastern Syria.
After the Syrian government stopped paying him, a technician who had spent two decades pumping the country’s oil received an enticing offer: do the same work for the jihadists of the Islamic State — starting at three times the
The long-running tension between anti-money-laundering rules and data privacy concerns is especially pronounced in the awkward relationship between regulated financial institutions and digital currency businesses.
New York regulators on Tuesday proposed requiring banks to annually certify having sufficient programs to deter terrorism financing and money laundering.