Our analysis and actionable ideas aim to challenge the status quo and build resilience in the global response to illicit finance. Our work covers a range of state- and non-state-based security threats, which we examine through a financial lens.
Since the programme’s inception in 2014, we have been driving change through our partnership-based approach and the development of viable solutions. Over the past decade, the world of finance and security has expanded and become more complex. Terrorist financing has become tech-enabled, fraud turned more organised and transnational, and the financial dimension of state threats is becoming more prominent at a time of fragmenting geopolitics. To reflect these changes and how our work has developed and evolved in recent years, the centre’s name changed from CFCS to CFS in April 2024.
Our work has helped to unveil the scale and complexities of international illicit finance, as well as to identify realistic policy responses across both the public and private sectors. We focus on putting our evidence-based research into practice through capacity-building and collaborative workshops. CFS experts are regularly called on to advise governments and international bodies, including the UN Security Council, the Financial Action Task Force, the UK and European Parliaments, and US Congress. Through our public engagements and events, we aim to highlight to wider audiences the pivotal role of finance in global security questions.
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Our partnership forum enables you to stay on the pulse of the latest policy and research developments, helping to inform your decision-making through unique insights, knowledge development and networking opportunities.
Launched by RUSI’s Centre for Finance and Security (CFS), the Forum aims at bringing together early career professionals from the public and private sector to intensify their presence and influence in the field.
Programmes
View the research programmes and projects by the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
Financial Crime Policy Programme
This programme focuses on the development and implementation of effective anti-financial crime policies and regulation both in the UK and internationally.
Counterproliferation Financing Programme
This programme aims to reduce and mitigate the risks related to the financing of weapons of mass destruction, as well as drive global thought leadership through timely and relevant policy-oriented research and analysis.
Financially Resilient Europe Programme
This programme develops research and activities that centre around the intersection of illicit finance and security, with a focus on the EU and its neighbourhood.
Transnational Threat Finance Programme
This programme examines the financial dimensions of non-state threats to peace, security and democracy through research and external engagements.
Finance and Statecraft Programme
This programme examines the weaponisation of finance as a tool of international statecraft through the lens of evolving threats and cross-sector responses.
Finance and Security in Brief
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Tom Keatinge
Director, CFS
Centre for Finance and Security
Kinga Redlowska
Head of CFS Europe
Centre for Finance and Security
Robert Rogers
Finance, Bids and Grants Manager, CFS
Centre for Finance and Security
Kirsten Thompson
Business Development and Partnerships Manager, CFS
Centre for Finance and Security
Alana Mazzoni
CFS Social Media and Communications Manager
Centre for Finance and Security
Kathryn Westmore
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Finance and Security
Dr Maria Nizzero
Research Fellow
Centre for Finance and Security
Eliza Lockhart
Research Fellow
Centre for Finance and Security
Arzu Abbasova
Research Analyst
Centre for Finance and Security
Gonzalo Saiz Erausquin
Research Fellow
Centre for Finance and Security
Oksana Ihnatenko
Researcher for project SMURF, CFS
Centre for Finance and Security
Chandana Seshadri
Research Analyst, Counter Proliferation Financing
Centre for Finance and Security
Fatima Alsancak
CPF Technical Assistance Programme Research Fellow
Centre for Finance and Security
Wojciech Pawlus
Outreach and Implementation Manager
Centre for Finance and Security
Dr Daryna Dvornichenko
Deployment Manager, CFS
Centre for Finance and Security
Fellows
Olivia Allison
Associate Fellow; Independent Consultant
Vito Armonavicius
Associate Fellow - Expert in anti-money laundering and financial crime
Dr Aaron Arnold
Senior Associate Fellow; Former member of the UN Panel of Experts for DPRK sanctions
Centre for Finance and Security
David Artingstall
Associate Fellow; Independent Consultant
Karen Baxter
Senior Associate Fellow; Director, Financial Conduct Authority
Dr Katie Benson
Associate Fellow | SHOC Network Member - Researcher
Dr Anna Bradshaw
Associate Fellow; Partner, Business Crime Department, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP
David Carlisle
Associate Fellow; Independent Consultant
Isabella Chase
Associate Fellow; Former CFCS Senior Research Fellow, RUSI
Emil Dall
Associate Fellow; Former CFCS Senior Research Fellow, RUSI
Jessica Davis
Associate Fellow; President and Principal Consultant with Insight Threat Intelligence
Gregory Dellas
Associate Fellow; Chief Compliance and Innovation Officer, ECOMMBX
Jan Dunin-Wasowicz
Associate Fellow; Partner, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Ian Dyson QPM
Distinguished Fellow; Former Commissioner, City of London Police
Edmund Fitton-Brown
Senior Associate Fellow
James Gillespie
Associate Fellow; Former Policy Advisor, HM Treasury
Ashlee Godwin
Associate Fellow
Sir David Green CB KC
Distinguished Fellow; Partner, Cohen & Gresser; Former Director, UK Serious Fraud Office
Justyna Gudzowska
Associate Fellow
Kayla Izenman
Associate Fellow; Former CFCS Research Fellow, RUSI
Anagha Joshi
Associate Fellow; Independent Consultant
Xolisile Khanyile
Senior Associate Fellow
Olivier Kraft
Associate Fellow; Technical Assistance Adviser with the International Monetary Fund
Olivia Kearney
Associate Fellow
Aidan Larkin
Associate Fellow; Founder & CEO, Asset Reality
Professor Michael Levi
Senior Associate Fellow | SHOC Network Member - Researcher
David Lewis
Senior Associate Fellow; Managing Director and Global Head of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Advisory Practice, Kroll
Andrew Mackay
Associate Fellow; Independent Consultant
Nick J. Maxwell
Associate Fellow; Director, NJM Research Ltd
Anton Moiseienko
Associate Fellow; Lecturer in Law, Australian National University
Robert Norfolk-Whittaker
Associate Fellow; UN Consultant
Allison Owen
Associate Fellow - Expert in cryptocurrency and counter-proliferation finance
Dr Marc Parker
Associate Fellow; Counter-terrorist financing expert
Matthew Redhead
Senior Associate Fellow; Financial crime consultant and researcher
Stephen Reimer
Associate Fellow
Gemma Rogers
Associate Fellow; Co-Founder, FINTRAIL Ltd
Denisse Rudich
Associate Fellow; Founder and Executive Director, Rudich Advisory
Sergii Rybchenko
Associate Fellow
Samantha Sheen
Associate Fellow; Financial Crime Adviser, Efficient Frontiers International
Dr Jason Shepherd
Senior Associate Fellow; Director, Analysis and Innovation, Thomson Reuters Special Services International
Josie Stewart
Associate Fellow; Director, Global Defence and Security Programme, Transparency International
Dr Noémi També
Associate Fellow; Independent Financial Crime Consultant and Researcher
Dr Jodi Vittori
Associate Fellow; Research and Policy Manager, Defence and Security Programme, Transparency International
Helena Wood
Associate Fellow; Head of Public Policy at Cifas
Malcolm Wright
Associate Fellow; Financial Crime Compliance Advisor
Simon York CBE
Senior Associate Fellow; Former Chief Investigation Officer and Director, Fraud Investigation Service, HMRC
Ilze Znotiņa
Senior Associate Fellow