| Bush: putting banks worldwide on notice | ||||||
When he unveiled his executive order on terrorist financing on September 24, president George W Bush described certain of the powers as “draconian”. The order will enable the US to freeze, or possibly even to seize, the US assets of any bank that has had dealings with named terrorists. Follow-up legislation passing through Congress would impose mandates on banks to scrutinize customers and report suspicious activity. It would also give the US Treasury broad powers to track money overseas and to punish governments that fail to help in the crackdown.
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