The Financial Action Task Force and Combating Financing of the Terrorism in Romania

After the tragic events of September 11, 2001, at international level, have been taken important decisions to combat terrorist financing. Today, the phenomenon of terrorism has become a global threat due to factors such as globalization of national economies, multinational companies, bank trusts existence, development of information technology and "shorter" distances between different countries. Terrorism tends to have a planetary character given by the highly developed international relations and economic interdependence between countries of the world. To those factors, appeared the ethnic and religious tensions in some parts of the world.