(24.März 2015) Targeting the group‘s finances has therefore become one of the anti-ISIS coalition‘s five primary lines of effort. On March 19-20, the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Italy co-chaired the inaugural meeting of the Counter-ISIL Finance Group in Rome.

The first goal laid out in the group‘s action plan is to prevent the self-styled Islamic State from using „the international financial system, including unregulated money remitters.“