Tom Keatinge is the Director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at RUSI, where his research focuses on matters at... read more
Anton 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.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UK
Helena Wood, Tom Keatinge, Keith Ditcham and Ardi Janjeva
This paper explores the impact of fraud on the UK's national security landscape, and sets out the case for adopting a fundamentally different pathway for responding to the problem.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Organised Crime and Policing, Occasional Papers, AML/CTF, UK, National Security, Organised Crime
A new RUSI project will focus on empowering civil society actors and the media community to tackle illicit financial flows in Latin America and East Africa.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Central and South America, Middle East and North Africa
Tom Keatinge
As President-elect Joe Biden commits to tackling illicit finance, Boris Johnson’s lack of leadership on the matter risks being embarrassingly revealed.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, United States, AML/CTF, UK, Global Security Issues
Darya Dolzikova and Emil Dall
The Financial Action Task Force now requires countries to assess proliferation financing risk, a welcome step in global efforts to counter sanctions evasion by actors such as North Korea. However, the narrow scope of the new requirement may reduce its effectiveness.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Counter-Proliferation Finance, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Jonathan van der Valk
The corruption and illicit financial flows permeating the sports world undermine its integrity. Could a world anti-corruption body for sports be the answer?
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Law and Ethics
Tom Keatinge, Florence Keen and Kayla Izenman
Efforts to prevent fundraising for extremist organisations tend to overlook the characteristics of right-wing movements.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI Journal, UK Counter-terrorism, Tackling Extremism, AML/CTF, UK, Domestic Security, Terrorism, Europe
Emil Dall and Tom Keatinge
Ensuring the global supply chain is not abused by North Korea to evade international sanctions requires a systemic approach. The current response is failing, and the involvement of a far greater range of private sector actors is urgently needed.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Counter-Proliferation Finance, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Sanctions, RUSI Newsbrief, North Korea
Florence Keen
The spendthrift wife of a jailed Azerbaijani banker has emerged as the subject of the UK’s first Unexplained Wealth Order, but will the tool mature into an effective method of combatting ‘dirty money’ at the heart of London’s luxury property market?
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI Newsbrief, AML/CTF, UK
This webinar forms part of a series of panels, organised by RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies, which will examine the impact of the US elections on global illicit finance.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, United States
This is the first in a series of three joint RUSI/Standard Chartered webinars. The following webinars in this series will cover ‘New Methods of Payment and Financial Crime’ and ‘A New Model for...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
This webinar, co-hosted by Cifas and RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, considered the threats, challenges and responses to the changing fraud landscape and the nexus between...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Coronavirus, AML/CTF
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