The business of Hawalas has increasing become part of our new global economy.

1. The Evergreen Inner Sanctum of Hawala
Wealth
Like a Greek play, the inner sanctum of the 1%
meme is a melodious and harmonic chorus droning across the globe. The rhetoric has
become common but the message obscures the realities of a true growth in
wealth…shadow banking. Like a green shoot of new grass emerging between the cracks
of an urban sidewalk. Shadow banking is expanding beyond earshot or sight. Obscured
by white noise that renders it out of news media range it remains an enigma. Its
moniker is absurdly descriptive. Shadow banking is unregulated activities by regulated
institutions. It serves as a very important structure within the global economic stream.
However, like the “Mighty Mississippi”, this monetary river rushes into the hands of
ideological extremists all over the world.
Hawala or Hundi
Regulated global monetary exchanges are growing richer while participating in money
laundering of terror donor funds. Funded in the billions from sovereign and business
leaders these dollars transect borders. Creators of instant billionaires their ever-
greening inner sanctum of wealth has become the driver of the burgeoning bottom lines
to government reserves.
This green bubble feeds the economic stream of all our lives in every
developed nation. It underlines the economic fabric of those of us living in
foot tapping porch homes to Wall Street. Yet few of us know of its existence.

2. Doing its work as an undercover agent of monetary exchange the societies of Hawalas is
exclusive. Those actors that serve as go between and the gatekeepers are the Hawalers.
In support of the horrors of radical and bloody ideological social reengineering, no
federally mandated agency sanctions its money exchanges. Hawala dealers function
within centuries’ old code of ethics reliant on trust between ethnic tribal unions and
families. If they were a recognized as a sovereign nation, their GDP would rank among
the highest.
We can enjoy a stimulating debate on whether hawaladars are or have been a needful
economic structure. Because the purchasing power of terrorists and their organizations
serves as the underlying structure of major economies. These funds earmarked for
terrorists proliferation hourly navigates its way into regulated sovereign banking.
The “politicalization” of Hawala by rich ideologists is rapidly becoming problematic. So
how do you track and punish those that traffic in money laundering? You introduce the
regulated offender to the scales of justice. You punish the participating institution
thereby staunching the flow and minimizing the number of laundering havens (BNP
Paribas). Nevertheless, how often does the politics of the locale, especially in
underdeveloped nations turn a deaf ear; nay they sanction the religion of Hawala
economics.
The role of transnational watch dogging of Hawalas has changed its face and developed
strong regulatory muscle. It resembles the Eurasia Group of the Financial Task Force
(FATF).
India
Eurasia Group of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is being embraced and
forming new partnerships in its motivation to drive Pakistani Hawalas from the borders
of neighboring countries. Somewhere in the vast and complex dendrites of the Hawala
connectivity, someone has discovered that the only pathway to circumventing monetary
funds to terrorists’ hands is to clamp off the artery that allows it.
Nevertheless, the realities of a dynamic organism are that it creates what biologists call
an anastomosis. Like a blocked blood vessel, shadow bankers will circumvent an
obstructed avenue of exchange then invent a new way to meet hawala needs.
Crypto-currency enters from the wings offering yet another popularized avenue to the
swift expediency of money transferring, from one unregulated hand to another.
However, that is subject matter for another posting.