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Financial Crime Insights Podcast Series The episodes in this series are based on past Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies (CFCS) events with top thinkers on topics that remain relevant in the world of financial crime. |
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Bridging the Oceans Podcast Series Hosted by Veele Nouwens, this podcast provides an essential a platform to discuss the key defence and security questions of the world’s most dynamic region: the Indo-Pacific. |
Prime Minister Outlines Vision for International Cooperation
Commentary, 22 February 2021Peter Ricketts
In a well-crafted speech to the Munich Security Conference, Boris Johnson went beyond ritual repetitions of ‘Global Britain’ slogans.
UK Integrated Review 2021, Brexit, UK
Russia in 2020: The Kremlin’s Increasing Apprehensiveness
Commentary, 19 February 2021Mikk Marran
The Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service’s sixth annual risk assessment review was published this week. Its Director General summarises its main findings on Russia.
Russia
UK Sanctions Policy: A Progress Report
Commentary, 18 February 2021Emil Dall
With Brexit and the transition period over, the UK has formally embarked on its independent sanctions regime. What work has been completed so far and what remains to be done?
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, Europe
Unstable Foundations: Prospects are Dim for Any Renewal of US–Russia Security Cooperation
Commentary, 17 February 2021Nick Reynolds and Sarah Martin
The new Biden administration is off to a rocky start with Russia, the understandable result of a series of turbulent events. A lack of effective support structures to facilitate dialogue or...
United States, Russia
Iran’s Shifting Nuclear Debate and the Shrinking Space for Diplomacy
Commentary, 16 February 2021Azadeh Zamirirad
Diplomacy has only a narrow window of opportunity, as the nuclear debate inside Iran remains volatile.
Iran's Nuclear Programme, Iranian Nuclear Pathways, United States, Unpacking the MENA, Iran
5G and Emerging Technology: The Politics of Diversification
Commentary, 15 February 2021James Sullivan
The UK government must learn quickly from its policy decisions around its 5G networks, and start grappling much earlier with risks posed by other emerging technologies.
Cyber Security, UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, Technology
Russia’s Strategy in the Central African Republic
Commentary, 12 February 2021Samuel Ramani
As violence intensifies in the Central African Republic, Russia is expanding its military and diplomatic involvement in the conflict.
Russia, Africa
Unexplained Wealth Orders in the UK: What Will This Year Bring?
Commentary, 11 February 2021Anton Moiseienko
Unexplained wealth orders are now being used to tackle criminal wealth in the UK, but they are more complicated and less powerful in practice than in popular imagination.
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UK
US Water Plant Suffers Cyber Attack Through the Front Door
Commentary, 10 February 2021Jamie MacColl and Sneha Dawda
An attempted cyber attack against a water treatment plant in Florida highlights endemic failures in the cyber security of the US water sector.
Cyber, Cyber Security, United States, Resilience, Technology
The UK Government Must Treat Fraud as a Threat to National Security
Commentary, 9 February 2021Ardi Janjeva
As fraud in the UK continues to grow, the government must do more to counter this invisible threat.
Organised Crime and Policing, UK, National SecurityPages
The Illegal Wildlife Trade: Not Just a Talking Point
Multimedia, 15 February 2021Worldwide, environmental crime is the fourth-largest transnational organised crime. This episode focuses on the illegal wildlife trade (IWT), where the pace of the global response does not match the...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
Episode 3: Jan Hall on Finding the Woman for the Job
Multimedia, 12 February 2021In this episode, Jan Hall talks to Karin about her career as one of the UK’s top headhunters, identifying and matching the appropriate people for some of the most demanding executive positions in...
Tags: National Security
The fluidity of nuclear doctrine
Multimedia, 11 February 2021It is common to consider nuclear doctrine as a fixed, unmoving and largely successful element of the Western Way of War. Dr Heather Williams talks to Peter Roberts about why this just isn't the case...
Tags: Military Sciences
Digital ID: Advancing the Possibilities
Multimedia, 8 February 2021A cashless society is nearly here and with it comes the need for effective and secure digital identity. While many governments and institutions are playing catch up, Canada has embraced the challenge...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
The Future of Economic Crime Policing in the UK
Multimedia, 5 February 2021Policing is essential to the UK’s response to economic crime, yet it is an area that the government all too often overlooks. In this episode, recorded in February 2020, CFCS Associate Fellow Helena...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF
No More walking away: No More Policy Vacuums
Multimedia, 5 February 2021Former senior US Ambassador Ryan Crocker tells Peter Roberts that the Biden administration will overturn not only the foreign policy direction of Trump, but also that of Barack Obama, and engage with...
Tags: Military Sciences, Western Way of War Podcast Series
South Korea’s Indo-Pacific Synergy
Multimedia, 3 February 2021This week, Veerle is joined by Professor Heung-Kyu Kim, founder and Director of the US-China Policy Institute and professor in the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Ajou University,...
Tags: Bridging the Oceans Podcast Series, China, International Security Studies, Navigating the Indo-Pacific, Japan, India, Maritime Forces, Pacific, Central and South Asia
Crime Shouldn’t Pay... But It Still Does
Multimedia, 1 February 2021'Crime shouldn't pay' is the adage. But it still does; estimates show that only 1 percent of criminal proceeds are confiscated. In this week's episode of The Suspicious Transaction Report, asset...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
The Future Rules of Warfare
Multimedia, 28 January 2021Technological change is creating an inflection point for Western states that will have radical implications on how they will fight in the future. Even if such rates of change are not so radical, the...
Tags: Military Sciences
Breaking Slavery's Financial Chains
Multimedia, 25 January 2021Modern slavery and human trafficking are one of the most profitable crimes in the world, generating hundreds of billions of dollars a year. What more can the financial sector do to help tackle it?...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
International Women’s Day: The Tasks Ahead
Financing Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism
Diversity in the UK's Intelligence Agencies