Episode 1: Imprisoned for Reforming Myanmar’s Broken Financial System
A personal story exploring the challenges of introducing financial integrity and transparency to Myanmar’s financial system – and of 650 days of imprisonment as a result.
We talk a lot about the realities of fighting financial crime and the harms that these crimes cause. But what happens when the victims are the financial crime fighter or the financial reformer themselves…?
In this first episode of Season 8, CFS Director Tom Keatinge speaks with Sean Turnell, an Australian economist and central banker, about his attempts to reform Myanmar's dysfunctional banking system after Aung San Suu Kyi's election victory in 2015, the opposition he faced from the cronies and military leaders who benefited from the status quo, and his subsequent imprisonment following the 2021 coup.
Podcast series
Suspicious Transaction Report
This podcast explores the financial dimensions of today’s leading transnational security challenges. Host Tom Keatinge and the team from the Centre for Finance and Security at RUSI bring you unique insights on the challenges posed by illicit finance and practical analysis of the policy responses. They interview top thinkers and influential voices who unpack the complex world of money laundering, corruption, sanctions evasion and illicit flows, and explain how this shapes the evolving global security landscape, and what democracies and international institutions must do to stay ahead when it comes to the financial dimensions of the global threat outlook.
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HOST
Tom Keatinge
Director, CFS
Centre for Finance and Security
