

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
Tom Keatinge
The UK government’s commitment to reinvigorate its efforts to tackle illicit finance is welcome. Now the hard work starts.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UKArdi Janjeva, Alexandria Reid and Anton Moiseienko
This Whitehall Report explores how criminals make money from piracy and provides recommendations on how the UK government, law enforcement and private sector stakeholders can decrease the profitability of doing so.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Organised Crime and Policing, Whitehall Reports, AML/CTF, UK, Organised Crime, TechnologySneha Dawda, Ardi Janjeva and Anton Moiseienko
This paper provides targeted, long-term recommendations for stakeholders across government, law enforcement and the private sector to tackle cyber fraud.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Cyber, Cyber Security, Organised Crime and Policing, UK Integrated Review 2021, Occasional Papers, UKTom Keatinge
The UK government’s commitment to reinvigorate its efforts to tackle illicit finance is welcome. Now the hard work starts.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UKEmil 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?
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, EuropeAnton 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, UKTom Keatinge
The UK has lost its global leadership of the fight against illicit finance. The Johnson government must get the UK back on track.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI Newsbrief, UKStephen 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/CTFAlexandria Reid and Tom Keatinge
Based on a recent exercise in Lao People’s Democratic Republic, this Newsbrief explores the value of revisiting historic wildlife cases from a financial perspective.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI Newsbrief, Organised CrimeThe recently-released Integrated Review provided insights into the UK government's ambition on illicit finance, sanctions and serious and organised crime. Our discussion will unpack and assess these...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Organised Crime and PolicingBeneficial ownership information should be used to support greater financial system integrity. But what are the realities? How is the information applied and what does this mean for future...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security StudiesFraud against UK citizens, businesses and the UK public purse has reached epidemic levels – it is the volume crime of our times.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
A Post Mortem of a Disintegrated Review
Revolutions Of War
Strengthening the UK’s National Resilience: The Tasks Ahead