You are here
- Home
- Publications
- RUSI Journal
- Volume: 162
- No: 5
- Book Review: The Despot’s Guide to Wealth Management: On the International Campaign Against Grand Corruption
Book Review: The Despot’s Guide to Wealth Management: On the International Campaign Against Grand Corruption
Inês Sofia de OliveiraRUSI Journal, 1 December 2017
AML/CTF, Organised Crime
Continue Reading
Become A Member
To access the full text of this article and many other benefits, become a RUSI member.
Support Rusi Research
Subscribe to our Newsletter
Related

Securing the Integrity of the EU’s Financial System is Overdue – Why is Progress so Slow?
Commentary, 26 November 2019Tom Keatinge
Like the proverbial frog in boiling water, the EU knows something is wrong; it just can’t decide what to do.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, European Union, Organised Crime, Europe
Play Your Cards Right: Preventing Criminal Abuse of Online Gambling
Occasional Papers, 12 November 2019Anton Moiseienko
This paper examines the criminal involvement in some online gambling activities.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Financial Crime 2.0, AML/CTF, Occasional Papers, Organised Crime, Technology
Free Trade Zones and Financial Crime – A Faustian Bargain?
Commentary, 5 November 2019Isabella Chase, Anton Moiseienko and Alexandria Reid
To safeguard free trade zones from criminal activities, national authorities and zone administrators must feel the pressure to do the right thing.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Organised Crime and Policing, Organised CrimePages

The Heat is on Cyber-Criminals. But Are Governments Doing Enough to Tackle Rogue Cryptocurrency Exchanges?
Commentary, 31 May 2019Anton Moiseienko
Cyber-criminal groups are being dismantled. But more needs to be done about the enforcement of rules that bind cryptocurrency exchanges.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Cyber, Financial Crime 2.0, AML/CTF, European Union, Organised Crime, Technology
Reinvigorating the Forgotten Financial Fight Against Al-Shabaab
Commentary, 8 May 2019Tom Keatinge
The lessons learned from disrupting Daesh financing must be applied to the unchecked funding of Al-Shabaab, the jihadist fundamentalist group based in East Africa.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, Horn of Africa, Terrorism, Africa
Supervising the UK AML Supervisors: The Office for Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering Supervision First Annual Report
Commentary, 29 March 2019Helena Wood
The launch of the first annual report of the UK’s Office for Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering Supervision signals a bold step forward for UK anti-money laundering supervision, but many questions about the wider government supervision strategy remain unanswered.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UK, EuropePages

Using Social Media as a Source of Financial Intelligence: A New Frontier in the Fight Against Crime?
RUSI Newsbrief, 5 September 2016Florence Keen
If social media is to deliver on its potential as a research tool for the provision of financial intelligence, a range of legal and ethical issues will need to be addressed first.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, RUSI Newsbrief, UK
Rethinking CTF Strategy: From Stopping Terrorist Financing to Using Finance to Stop Terrorists
RUSI Newsbrief, 6 May 2016Tom 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, AML/CTF, RUSI Newsbrief, Information, Intelligence, Terrorism
Information Sharing and Financial Crime: A Race to Catch Up
RUSI Newsbrief, 7 July 2015Inês Sofia de Oliveira
Financial crime crosses borders and institutional barriers – and so must the information that can be used to tackle it
Tags: RUSI Newsbrief, Information, Organised Crime, TerrorismPages
Episode 03: Is a New Approach Needed?
Multimedia, 9 October 2019Host Isabella Chase looks at how innovation could be used to solve a number of problems in the AML/CFT regime. To discuss the latest financial crime news she is joined by Denisse Rudich and Nick...
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTFEpisode 2: Better Together
Multimedia, 25 September 2019In this episode of the Suspicious Transaction Report, Isabella Chase is joined by Jo Jenkins and David Carlisle to discuss Wilson’s crypto auction, Swedbank’s latest press release, the Dutch banks...
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF
Episode 1: The Suspicious Transaction Report
Multimedia, 11 September 2019Isabella discusses the latest financial crime news with Samantha Sheen and Misha Glenny. They cover the latest developments with the impounded Iranian oil tanker the Adrian Darya-1, HMRC’s largest...
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF
Underwater Drone Incidents Point to China’s Expanding Intelligence Gathering
The UK Should Align with Biden in the Indo-Pacific
The UK and Afghanistan: Raising Our Voice