On 29 March 2018, the Treasury Committee launched an inquiry into Economic Crime. The report which extensively covers the evidence given by Tom Keatinge, Director of RUSI's Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, can be read here.
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
A lack of awareness-raising by governments and misinterpretation by the private sector mean efforts to restrict North Korea’s finances are failing.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, North Korea, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Pacific
David Carlisle and Kayla Izenman
This paper reveals how North Korea can exploit cryptocurrency, particularly in Southeast Asia, to circumvent international sanctions. It sets out practical guidance for countries in the region to ensure resiliency against the risk of North Korean cryptocurrency activity.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Cyber, AML/CTF, Occasional Papers, Counter-Proliferation Finance, North Korea, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Technology
Helena 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, Europe
David Artingstall
Although the UK will implement the EU’s Fourth Money Laundering Directive, which was negotiated before the Brexit vote, a challenge lies ahead in dealing with the European Commission’s proposed amendments to the text of the Directive, some of which the UK does not support.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, Brexit, European Union, UK, International Institutions, Europe
For fifteen years, efforts to tackle terrorist finance have been long on words and short on action. The recently published 2016 Regional Risk Assessment on Terrorism Financing 2016 for Southeast Asia and Australia suggests that at last global edicts are being operationalised locally.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF
Tom Keatinge
The relentless targeting of Daesh and its funding has had a considerable impact. Oil production is depleted, swathes of territory have been lost, key towns have fallen, and salaries and services have been cut. Now the real counter-terror finance work should begin.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
Western Way of War: The Death of Military Superiority
The UK Ministry of Defence’s Adoption of the Government-Wide System for Project Approvals, Part II: Risks and Hopes for the New System
The Information Domain Threat Environment