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The Second Roundtable of Centres of Excellence dedicated to Counter-Terrorism and Preventing and Countering Extremism will take place in Riyadh on 29 to 30 April 2025 under the theme “The Impact of New Technologies on Countering the Financing of Terrorism” .

The two-day Roundtable is co-organized by the Presidency of State Security of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) through its United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT). It is facilitated by the UNOCT/UNCCT Global Programme on Detecting, Preventing, and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT).

The event aims to address the urgent need to understand and respond to the increasing misuse of new and emerging technologies by terrorist actors, in particular for terrorism financing. These include virtual assets, blockchain technologies, artificial intelligence, unmanned aerial systems, or crowdfunding platforms and tools that can facilitate fast anonymous and cross-border transactions, challenging traditional monitoring and response frameworks.

Through expert panels and interactive discussions, participants will explore how financial innovations can both pose risks and offer solutions, with a view to promoting a harmonized risk-based approach to CFT in line with relevant UN Security Council resolutions, including resolution 2462 (2019), the international standards set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), and the Non-binding guiding principles on preventing, detecting and disrupting the use of new and emerging financial technologies for terrorist purposes recently adopted by the Counter-Terrorism Committee, also known as the Algeria Guiding Principles.

The Roundtable will conclude on 30 April 2025 with a summary of discussions and recommendations aimed at enhancing the collective response to terrorism financing threats in the digital age.