Follow the money
Terrorists need money to carry out their atrocities, money for weapons, for supplies to make explosives, for travel.
This money trail will provide valuable information to investigators and often allow them to identify those involved in the terrorist attacks. More importantly, by depriving terrorists and terrorist organisations of access to funding and the financial system, terrorist attacks could be prevented.
The FATF is leading work globally to understand the risks countries face from terrorist financing and develop policy responses to all aspects of it.