Centre for Finance and Security

The Centre for Finance and Security (CFS) specialises in the intersection of finance and global security.


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 across two primary areas:

  • Financial Crime Policy: focusing on the development and implementation of effective anti-financial crime policies and regulation both in the UK and internationally; as well as engaging with global policy bodies such as the FATF and UNCAC.
     
  • Sanctions, State Threats and Economic Security: examining the financial dimension of state threats and the weaponisation of finance as a tool of international statecraft in an increasingly fragmented geopolitical landscape, through the analysis of evolving trends and responses such as sanctions and the expanding focus on economic security.

Since the centre’s inception in 2014, the world of finance and security has expanded and become more complex. Terrorist financing has become tech-enabled, fraud and money laundering are more organised and transnational, the advance of cryptocurrencies has unlocked a new dimension for illicit finance, and the financial dimension of state threats is becoming more prominent at a time of fragmenting geopolitics.

Alongside our evidence-based research that provides solutions to some of the biggest challenges in the finance and security landscape, CFS also has a unique ability to convene policymakers, industry leaders, academics, and experts. This allows them to develop new networks and bring fresh perspectives to the key finance and security issues that the world is currently facing.

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; and put our evidence-based research into practice through capacity-building and collaborative workshops.

KEY CONTACTS

Tom Keatinge

Director, CFS

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Kathryn Westmore

Senior Research Fellow

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Kinga Redlowska

Head of CFS Europe

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CFS Newsletter

Centre for Finance and Security's 10-Year Anniversary

Celebrating 10 Years of research into the financial dimension of security threats

Programmes

The Centre for Finance and Security splits its research into two programmes:


Suspicious Transaction Report Podcasts

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Support our work, join our CFS Partnership Forum and subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date with our latest research.

The Partnership Forum

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.

Join the Future Leaders in Illicit Finance Forum

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.

Support our work

Join us in disrupting the cycle of illicit finance and in creating a more secure and inclusive world. Make a one-off or recurring gift to help fund our CFS research programmes.

Subscribe to the SIFMANet Sanctions Brief

Receive updates on the latest news and developments on the sanctions against Russia from the European Sanctions and Illicit Finance Monitoring and Analysis Network

Our team


Tom Keatinge

Director, CFS

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Kinga Redlowska

Head of CFS Europe

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Robert Rogers

Finance, Bids and Grants Manager, CFS

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Kirsten Thompson

Business Development and Partnerships Manager, CFS

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Kathryn Westmore

Senior Research Fellow

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Dr Maria Nizzero

Research Fellow

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Eliza Lockhart

Research Fellow

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Arzu Abbasova

Research Analyst

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Gonzalo Saiz Erausquin

Research Fellow

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Oksana Ihnatenko

Researcher for project SMURF, CFS

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Chandana Seshadri

Research Analyst, Counter Proliferation Financing

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Fatima Alsancak

CPF Technical Assistance Programme Research Fellow

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Wojciech Pawlus

Outreach and Implementation Manager

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Vlada Yaremenko

Russia Sanctions Implementation Project Officer

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Ieva Ulbaite

Programme Manager

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Fellows


Olivia Allison

Associate Fellow; Independent Consultant

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Vito Armonavicius

Associate Fellow - Expert in anti-money laundering and financial crime

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Dr Aaron Arnold

Senior Associate Fellow; Former member of the UN Panel of Experts for DPRK sanctions

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David Artingstall

Associate Fellow; Independent Consultant

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Karen Baxter

Senior Associate Fellow; Director, Financial Conduct Authority

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Dr Katie Benson

Associate Fellow | SHOC Network Member - Researcher

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Dr Anna Bradshaw

Associate Fellow; Partner, Business Crime Department, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP

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David Carlisle

Associate Fellow; Independent Consultant

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Isabella Chase

Associate Fellow; Former CFCS Senior Research Fellow, RUSI

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Chloe Cina

RUSI Senior Associate | Sanctions Lawyer

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Emil Dall

Associate Fellow; Sanctions Lead at FINTRAIL

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Jessica Davis

Associate Fellow; President and Principal Consultant with Insight Threat Intelligence

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Gregory Dellas

Associate Fellow; Chief Compliance and Innovation Officer, ECOMMBX

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Jan Dunin-Wasowicz

Associate Fellow; Partner, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

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Ian Dyson QPM

Distinguished Fellow; Former Commissioner, City of London Police

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Edmund Fitton-Brown

Senior Associate Fellow

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James Gillespie

Associate Fellow; Former Policy Advisor, HM Treasury

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Ashlee Godwin

Associate Fellow

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Sir David Green CB KC

Distinguished Fellow; Partner, Cohen & Gresser; Former Director, UK Serious Fraud Office

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Justyna Gudzowska

Associate Fellow

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Dr Ashley Hess

Associate Fellow

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Kayla Izenman

Associate Fellow; Former CFCS Research Fellow, RUSI

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Anagha Joshi

Associate Fellow; Independent Consultant

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Xolisile Khanyile

Senior Associate Fellow

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Olivier Kraft

Associate Fellow; Technical Assistance Adviser with the International Monetary Fund

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Olivia Kearney

Associate Fellow

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Aidan Larkin

Associate Fellow; Founder & CEO, Asset Reality

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Professor Michael Levi

Senior Associate Fellow | SHOC Network Member - Researcher

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David Lewis

Senior Associate Fellow; Managing Director and Global Head of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Advisory Practice, Kroll

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Erin Lubowicz

Associate Fellow

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Andrew Mackay

Associate Fellow; Independent Consultant

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Nick J. Maxwell

Associate Fellow; Director, NJM Research Ltd

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Anton Moiseienko

Associate Fellow; Lecturer in Law, Australian National University

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Robert Norfolk-Whittaker

Associate Fellow; UN Consultant

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Allison Owen

Associate Fellow - Expert in cryptocurrency and counter-proliferation finance

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Dr Marc Parker

Associate Fellow; Counter-terrorist financing expert

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Matthew Redhead

Senior Associate Fellow; Financial crime consultant and researcher

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Stephen Reimer

Associate Fellow

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Gemma Rogers

Associate Fellow; Co-Founder, FINTRAIL Ltd

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Denisse Rudich

Associate Fellow; Founder and Executive Director, Rudich Advisory

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Sergii Rybchenko

Associate Fellow

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Samantha Sheen

Associate Fellow; Financial Crime Adviser, Efficient Frontiers International

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Dr Jason Shepherd

Senior Associate Fellow; Director, Analysis and Innovation, Thomson Reuters Special Services International

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Jeffrey Simser

RUSI Senior Associate Fellow

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Josie Stewart

Associate Fellow; researcher and writer, independent consultant and advisor.

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Dr Noémi També

Associate Fellow; Independent Financial Crime Consultant and Researcher

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Dr Jodi Vittori

Associate Fellow; Research and Policy Manager, Defence and Security Programme, Transparency International

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Helena Wood

Associate Fellow; Head of Public Policy at Cifas

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Malcolm Wright

Associate Fellow; Financial Crime Compliance Advisor

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Simon York CBE

Senior Associate Fellow; Former Chief Investigation Officer and Director, Fraud Investigation Service, HMRC

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Ilze Znotiņa

Senior Associate Fellow

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