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Stopping Terrorism Starts with Stopping the Money': Financial Exclusion and the War on Terrorist Finance

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This paper looks at the increase in financial regulation in the wake of September 11 designed to stop terrorist financing and its implications for financial exclusion. The channels through which the terrorist had been able to finance their acts became an important focus for policy initiatives after the September 11 attacks, and some observers saw in increased financial regulation a window of opportunity to tackle money laundering, financial crime and tax evasion. For example, the US Patriot Act included measures to increase the reporting requirements of a range of financial institutions including mutual funds and made it more difficult for US banks to deal with institutions in known tax havens. This paper argues that, in practice, the measures designed to target terrorist finance have exacerbated financial exclusion in the US and have made it more difficult for migrant workers to remit money. In particular, the risk-based approach which is increasingly deployed to define and seek out suspect financial transactions, lead to the exclusion of migrants and foreign nationals from the mainstream banking system. As example, the paper will discuss the public campaign called 'Stopping Terrorism Starts with Stopping the Money', which was launched by US Treasury in April 2003. The paper will conclude by linking these financial developments to wider debates concerning civil liberties and definitions of terrorist risk.
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de Goede, Marieke. "Stopping Terrorism Starts with Stopping the Money': Financial Exclusion and the War on Terrorist Finance" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Le Centre Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Mar 17, 2004 <Not Available>. 2008-10-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p73426_index.html>

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de Goede, M. , 2004-03-17 "Stopping Terrorism Starts with Stopping the Money': Financial Exclusion and the War on Terrorist Finance" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Le Centre Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada <Not Available>. 2008-10-10 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p73426_index.html

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Abstract: This paper looks at the increase in financial regulation in the wake of September 11 designed to stop terrorist financing and its implications for financial exclusion. The channels through which the terrorist had been able to finance their acts became an important focus for policy initiatives after the September 11 attacks, and some observers saw in increased financial regulation a window of opportunity to tackle money laundering, financial crime and tax evasion. For example, the US Patriot Act included measures to increase the reporting requirements of a range of financial institutions including mutual funds and made it more difficult for US banks to deal with institutions in known tax havens. This paper argues that, in practice, the measures designed to target terrorist finance have exacerbated financial exclusion in the US and have made it more difficult for migrant workers to remit money. In particular, the risk-based approach which is increasingly deployed to define and seek out suspect financial transactions, lead to the exclusion of migrants and foreign nationals from the mainstream banking system. As example, the paper will discuss the public campaign called 'Stopping Terrorism Starts with Stopping the Money', which was launched by US Treasury in April 2003. The paper will conclude by linking these financial developments to wider debates concerning civil liberties and definitions of terrorist risk.

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