Tom Keatinge

Tom Keatinge is the founding Director of the Centre for Finance and Security (CFS) at RUSI, where his research focuses on the intersection of finance and security including the financial dimension of a range of security threats.

He also hosts the long-running CFS podcast, 'The Suspicious Transaction Report'.

Tom contributes to a variety of publications and media outlets (view Tom Keatinge's website for external publications); has given evidence to UK and European parliamentary and US congressional hearings and spoken at a range of high-level multilateral forums including the UN Security Council, European policymaker forums, and the Financial Action Task Force and a number of its regional bodies.

He has a Master’s in Intelligence and International Security from King's College London.

Prior to joining RUSI in 2014, he was an investment banker for 20 years at J.P. Morgan.

In more detail, his research areas cover:

• State threats: the methods by which adversaries seek to undermine Western democracies and exploit their financial systems via the use of 'active financial measures'.
• Sanctions: the effectiveness and evolution of sanctions regimes.
• Alternative financial systems: the techniques and motivations for the development of payment systems beyond those offered by the traditional financial system.
• Terrorist financing: the effectiveness of current approaches to terrorist financing; the use of financial intelligence as a security tool; and the evolution of terrorist financing methods and responses.
• Proliferation financing: the role of finance as a tool of disruption in combatting state and non-state actor proliferation ambitions.
• Organised crime: assessing the financial dimension of priority transnational threats, including the illegal wildlife trade, environmental crime and human trafficking.
• New approaches to tackling financial crime: the role of public/private partnership and information sharing.