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
A new survey by RUSI and ACAMS reveals how professionals in the cryptocurrency industry believe that governments are behind the curve on the perceived risks, opportunities, and regulation of cryptocurrency.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
Tom Keatinge
Banks and financial infrastructure are emerging as an expanding front in geopolitics.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
Stephen Reimer
Media claims got it wrong when they reported that the 1267 sanctions committee of the UN Security Council had authorised the unfreezing of bank accounts belonging to several high-profile Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists. But the story reveals how humanitarian exemptions to UN asset freezes lack transparency and effectiveness in countering terrorism financing.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Pakistan, United Nations, RUSI Newsbrief, AML/CTF
Isabella Chase
Tools to enable financial inclusion exist, but without positive incentives to put these into practice barriers will remain.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Law and Ethics, Organised Crime, Terrorism
Kayla Izenman and Katherine Norton-Williams
The coronavirus outbreak may have averted or postponed North Korea’s aim of hosting a curious gathering of blockchain and cryptocurrency experts. Potential participants should resist the temptation to attend this event, should Pyongyang seek to reinstate it in the future.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Cyber, North Korea, Technology
Tom Keatinge
A well-intentioned decision on Iran in 2016 has haunted the Financial Action Task Force ever since. That decision is about to become a nightmare.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Iran, AML/CTF
Jeffrey King
Criminal justice networks are being abused around the world. The rules designed to protect refugees are working against them.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI Newsbrief, Law and Ethics
Inês Sofia de Oliveira and Alexandra Stickings
The public and private sectors must become partners in supporting the development of cyber-security knowledge, investing in innovative technology and sharing information.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Cyber, Future UK Cyber Security Strategy Project, Terrorism and Conflict, RUSI Newsbrief, Technology
Tom Keatinge
Rather than focusing on the near-impossible task of stopping terrorist financing, policy-makers should instead focus on using financial intelligence to stop terrorists.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI Newsbrief, AML/CTF, Information, Intelligence, Terrorism
This latest RUSI Occasional Paper considers responses to terrorist-related KfR and proposes ways in which the gap between words and actions can be closed.
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This event will assess what role social media platforms could or should be playing within the counter-terrorist finance (CTF) architecture in place today.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Cyber, Lone-Actor Terrorism, Radicalisation and Countering Violent Extremism, Terrorism, UK Counter-terrorism, Tackling Extremism, The War on Terror, Security Policy, International Responses, Domestic Security, Global Security Issues, Information, Intelligence, Law and Ethics, National Security, Technology, Terrorism
As part of RUSI’s Strategic Hub for Organised Crime Research workshop series, this event will examine the potential impact of virtual currencies and Fintech platforms on the future of money...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Cyber, Illicit Trade, Organised Crime, Terrorism and Conflict, AML/CTF, Organised Crime, Technology
Bohemian Forest Dark Tales: The Czech Republic, Russia’s Dirty War Machine and Western Solidarity
Germany and the Future of European Security
Strategic Convergence: Towards a New Chapter in Germany–Japan Ties