The financial front line

摘要

"This is not a macho task," said Ken-neth Dam, the American Treasury's deputy secretary, rather "a thinking man's war": in the end, diplomacy, vigilance and seamless information-sharing will cut the terrorists from their financing.rnIn recent days, America, Britain and the European Union have announced legislative and regulatory measures to get at the terrorists' funding. Next week, at an extraordinary, meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the world's main anti-money-laundering body, America and Britain will seek agreement on steps to force the rest of the world to join the campaign against terrorist financing. They will try to make a new handful of terrorist-related rules binding on all countries, not just the 31 members of the FATF.