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 and Tech
Cyber and Tech
Cathy Haenlein
Director of Organised Crime and Policing Studies
Organised Crime and Policing
Kathryn Westmore
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Finance and Security
Georgia Jones
Research Analyst/Project Officer, CFS
Centre for Finance and Security
Fellows
Olivia Allison
RUSI Associate Fellow, CFS
Karen Baxter
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, CFS
Chris Batt
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow
Dr Katie Benson
RUSI Associate Fellow, CFS | SHOC Network Member - Researcher
Sir David Green CB KC
RUSI Distinguished Fellow, CFS
Olivia Kearney
RUSI Associate Fellow, CFS
Anton Moiseienko
RUS Associate Fellow, CFS
Gemma Rogers
RUSI Associate Fellow, CFS
Malcolm Wright
RUSI Associate Fellow, CFS
Simon York CBE
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, CFS