

Kayla is a Research Analyst at RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies. She joined RUSI in September 2018 following the... read more
David Carlisle is an an expert on the intersection of cryptocurrencies and financial crime. He is the Head of Community at Elliptic, a... read more
James Byrne, Joe Byrne, Gary Somerville and Hamish Macdonald
This report analyses North Korea's trade networks in Dandong and the role these have played in the country's ongoing attempts to evade multilateral and unilateral sanctions regimes.
Tags: China, Project Sandstone, North Korea, Other PublicationsStephen Reimer
Media claims got it wrong when they reported that the 1267 sanctions committee of the UN Security Council had authorised the unfreezing of bank accounts belonging to several high-profile Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists. But the story reveals how humanitarian exemptions to UN asset freezes lack transparency and effectiveness in countering terrorism financing.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Pakistan, United Nations, RUSI Newsbrief, AML/CTFA new RUSI project will address financial crime responses to wildlife trafficking in West and Central Africa
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Organised Crime and PolicingIsabella Chase
Tools to enable financial inclusion exist, but without positive incentives to put these into practice barriers will remain.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Law and Ethics, Organised Crime, TerrorismProject Sandstone
North Korea appears to have ordered a significant portion of its shipping fleet to return home in what is likely a reaction to the global outbreak of the coronavirus, new analysis by Project Sandstone can reveal.
Tags: Project Sandstone, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, North KoreaCristina Varriale
A new rallying cry to ‘achieve a breakthrough’ has been launched by the North Korean leader. But what this actually means is, probably deliberately, obfuscated.
Tags: Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, North Korea, Global Security Issues, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, PacificTom Keatinge and Florence Keen
Social media has attracted scrutiny as a tool for promoting extremism. Its power to support terrorist financing requires equal attention.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI Newsbrief, AML/CTF, Technology, TerrorismMalcolm Chalmers
North Korea has not been at the top of the agenda of Whitehall’s key policymakers, focused as so many of them are on the immediate challenges of Brexit. This now needs to change.
Tags: RUSI Newsbrief, North Korea, UK, Proliferation and Nuclear PolicyTom Keatinge
Tom Keatinge reviews the play Terror.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI Journal, Art, Culture and Literature, Law and EthicsA discussion with David Green CB QC, Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), hosted by RUSI's Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Organised Crime, UK, Law and Ethics, Organised CrimeCountering Money Laundering in an Evolving Technological Landscape
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, TechnologyThis latest RUSI Occasional Paper considers responses to terrorist-related KfR and proposes ways in which the gap between words and actions can be closed.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
Fighting for the soul of Western militaries
New UK Government Initiative to Support High-Risk, High-Reward Military Science Needs Refinement
New Zealand's Indo-Pacific Recalibration