Title: Treasury and TFI
Course: Critical Infrastructure: An Overview > Section: Course Content

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Treasury and TFI

Since its 2004 creation, the Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) group takes care of the Treasury Department’s intelligence and enforcement functions. TFI works to safeguard the financial system against illicit use and combating rogue nations, terrorist facilitators, weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferators, money launderers, drug kingpins, and other national security threats.

TFI was created in 2004. In the summer of 2014 TFI celebrated their tenth year in a symposium that was co-hosted by the Treasury and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The symposium focused on how financial tools have helped advance the nation’s security. When speaking at the symposium, Secretary Jacob J. Lew made the following statement (which sums up what TFI and the Treasury Department do to keep our nation secure): “TFI has opened up a new battlefield for the United States, one that enables us to go after those who wish us harm without putting our troops in harm’s way or using lethal force.  Without a doubt, their accomplishments have made our country, and our world, safer” [3].

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