Summary: "The role of contemporary legislative policy in combating money laundering and terrorist financing in light of recent developments" Analytical comparative study, Between Qatari, Egyptian, French and American legislation   There is no doubt that the modern criminal legislative policy in combating the phenomenon of money laundering and terrorist financing plays a major role in the effectiveness and flexibility of combating this criminal phenomenon. Which has become a dangerous phenomenon that threatens the economy at the global and national levels, in addition to its danger on the social, political and security aspects, which poses a threat to the security and stability of society, and thus the need to study legislative means and preventive measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, especially in light of the abolition of restrictions on The free movement of capital between the international financial markets resulting from the rules of freedom of trade and globalization, the secrecy of banking transactions, the rules of governance and transparency in the stock and exchange markets, and the spread of dealing with digital money and virtual assets such as electronic currencies, bitcoin and other factors that helped raise risks, which He encouraged the spread of the phenomenon of money laundering and terrorist financing by transferring these illegal funds from the inside to the outside to be used in the stock markets and global stock exchanges and other projects, and then returning them again to the inside on the grounds that they are legitimate funds resulting from profits of projects and speculation in the global financial markets .