EU interior ministers on Friday will consider new steps to cut off financial flows to terrorist groups, including a proposal to create a bloc-wide database of bank accounts, according to sources.
U.S. financial institutions have identified funds potentially linked to last week's terrorist attacks in Paris, according to a top counterterrorism investigator with the FBI.
An intergovernmental group that sets compliance standards will soon evaluate the counterterrorist laws of dozens of nations in light of turmoil in Iraq and Syria and recent attacks in Europe.