Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units

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This article describes the association of Financial Intelligence Units. For the similarly named media group, see Egmont Foundation .

Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units
founding	1995 in Brussels
Office	Toronto
purpose	Combating money laundering and terrorist financing
Chair	Mariano Federici
Managing directors	Jérôme Beaumont
Website	http://www.egmontgroup.org/

The Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units (in short: Egmont Group or Egmont Group ) is the international association of 164 Financial Intelligence Units . It enables the secure exchange of experience and financial information to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.

The Egmont Group is thus supporting the work of the United Nations Security Council , the G20 finance ministers and the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering .

history

The Egmont Group was founded in 1995 and named after the Egmont Palace in Brussels , where the founding meeting took place.

In 2007 the Secretariat of the Egmont Group was established in Toronto .

Web links

• Official website of the Egmont Group
• Literature from and about Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units in the bibliographic database WorldCat