Financial Monitoring Unit

The Financial Monitoring Unit (Urdu: مالیاتی نگرانی اکائی, abbreviated as FMU) is the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of Pakistan established under the provisions of Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2010 (Previously Anti-Money Laundering Ordinance, 2007).

It is an independent intelligence service department of the Government of Pakistan and primarily responsible for analyzing transactions, money laundering cases, building efforts against the terrorist financing, and all sorts of financial crimes within the jurisdiction of financial laws of Pakistan.

The FMU may disseminate the Financial Intelligence to the concerned Law Enforcement Agencies (if required) for their further necessary action in this respect.

Moreover the unit also acts as the country's face at all international forums related to Anti-Money Laundering & Combating Terrorism financing.

The data centre was launched by the Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, the British High Commissioner, and the Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) at the Head Office of Financial Monitoring Unit (FMU) located in Karachi.