Fraud
Our research focuses on the threat of fraud as it relates to money laundering, cybercrime and international security.
Fraud remains largely a ‘silent threat’, with the scale of its impact on citizens, the private sector and the public purse met with a significantly under-resourced response. In this context, the prevailing political narrative fails to convey the full impact of fraud beyond financial losses or the psychological impact on victims. To inform a new approach to tackling fraud, RUSI’s research explores the social, economic and criminological impacts of fraud and their intersection with the broader security landscape in the UK and internationally. We seek to pave the way for fundamentally different pathways of responding to the problem.
Research programmes
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This programme focuses on the development and implementation of effective anti-financial crime policies and regulation both in the UK and internationally.
Our work on organised crime and corruption explores the dynamics of illicit markets and the drivers and enablers that sustain them in order to inform effective policy responses.
Latest publications
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Tom Keatinge
Director, CFS
Centre for Finance and Security
James Sullivan
Director, Cyber Research
Cyber
Cathy Haenlein
Director of Organised Crime and Policing Studies
Organised Crime and Policing
Kathryn Westmore
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Finance and Security
Dr Maria Nizzero
Research Fellow
Centre for Finance and Security
Fellows
Olivia Allison
Associate Fellow; Independent Consultant
Karen Baxter
Senior Associate Fellow; Director, Financial Conduct Authority
Dr Katie Benson
Associate Fellow | SHOC Network Member - Researcher
Sir David Green CB KC
Distinguished Fellow; Partner, Cohen & Gresser; Former Director, UK Serious Fraud Office
Olivia Kearney
Associate Fellow
Anton Moiseienko
Associate Fellow; Lecturer in Law, Australian National University
Gemma Rogers
Associate Fellow; Co-Founder, FINTRAIL Ltd
Malcolm Wright
Associate Fellow; Financial Crime Compliance Advisor
Simon York CBE
Senior Associate Fellow; Former Chief Investigation Officer and Director, Fraud Investigation Service, HMRC
