FATF Warns: ISIS Exploiting Crypto to Fund Terror

New FATF Insights on Terrorist Financing: Trends, red flags, and FSP expectations - Caribbean News Global

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands – In July 2025, the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”) published a new report highlighting the evolving terrorist financing (“TF”) risks. The report outlines various factors that influence TF risks, the methods used to finance terrorism, and anticipated trends. Highlights TF operations are increasingly decentralised relying more on regional hubs, self-financed cells and mixed funding streams such as criminal proceed…

FATF Warns: ISIS Exploiting Crypto to Fund Terror

The conversation around crypto often swings between innovation and risk — and right now, the focus has shifted to the darker side.

NEWS: FATF warns UN that ISIS is using crypto to fund operations - AML Intelligence

By PAUL O’DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent TERRORISTS group ISIS is using virtual assets such as crypto to fund their operations, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has warned. The Paris-based group, which sets international AML (anti-money laundering) standards, said the technology is used as a way to conceal payments. “In 2024, ISIL-K has increasingly used virtual assets for organisational transfers and to collect donations internationally,”…