Financial Crime Policy Programme
This programme focuses on the development and implementation of effective anti-financial crime policies and regulation both in the UK and internationally.
As many countries around the world look ahead to the fifth round of mutual evaluations by the Financial Action Task Force, there are significant shifts in the global policy approach to tackling financial crime, including money laundering and fraud. There is a very real risk of a divergence in policy standards between the UK and its international partners; at the same time, the threat that financial crime poses to the global financial system is evolving and becoming ever-more resilient and multifaceted.
Key focus areas
The objectives of the Financial Crime Policy Programme are to:
- Monitor the evolution of global anti-financial crime policy frameworks and assess the impact of global trends and emerging areas of divergence on the UK policy landscape.
 - Track the implementation of the UK government’s second Economic Crime Plan (ECP2), the national fraud strategy and the anti-corruption strategy. In particular, our work focuses on the cross-cutting capabilities including the data and people strategy as well as broader work around system prioritisation, the legal and regulatory framework and specific thematic risk areas.
 - Identify the risks and opportunities with new technologies, including AI, cryptocurrencies and new types of payments, and the necessary financial crime policy response.
Our experts
Tom Keatinge
Director, CFCS
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
Kathryn Westmore
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
Maria Nizzero
Research Fellow
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
Eliza Lockhart
Research Fellow
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
Arzu Abbasova
Research Analyst
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
Fellows
Dr Katie Benson
Associate Fellow; Lecturer in Criminology, Lancaster University
Sir David Green CB KC
Distinguished Fellow; Partner, Cohen & Gresser; Former Director, UK Serious Fraud Office
Aidan Larkin
Associate Fellow; Founder & CEO, Asset Reality
Professor Michael Levi
Senior Associate Fellow; Professor of Criminology, Cardiff University
David Lewis
Senior Associate Fellow; Managing Director and Global Head of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Advisory Practice, Kroll
Andrew Mackay
Associate Fellow; Independent Consultant
Matthew Redhead
Senior Associate Fellow; Financial crime consultant and researcher
Dr Noémi També
Associate Fellow; Independent Financial Crime Consultant and Researcher
Helena Wood
Associate Fellow; Head of Public Policy at Cifas
Simon York CBE
Senior Associate Fellow; Former Chief Investigation Officer and Director, Fraud Investigation Service, HMRC
