Episode 21: A Year of Labour: Assessing the UK’s Progress Against Illicit Finance
After 12 months in office, has the new Labour government turned the page on the fight against illicit finance, or is governing harder than opposition?
CFS Director Tom Keatinge speaks with CFS Financial Crime Policy lead Kathryn Westmore and Associate Fellow Josie Stewart about the progress made by the new Labour government in its efforts to combat illicit finance as they assess what more should be done based on Josie’s recently published Policy Brief.
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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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FEATURING
Tom Keatinge
Director, CFS
Centre for Finance and Security
Kathryn Westmore
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Finance and Security
Josie Stewart
Associate Fellow; researcher and writer, independent consultant and advisor.
