Money laundering consists of masking the source of criminally derived proceeds so that the proceeds appear legitimate, or masquerading the source of monies used to promote illegal conduct. Money laundering generally involves three steps: placing illicit proceeds into the financial system; layering, or the separation of the criminal proceeds from their origin; and integration, or the use of apparently legitimate transactions to disguise the illicit proceeds. US regulators (i.e., FinCEN) in coordination with several international organizations are tracking the influx of all illegal activities.