Episode 4: Crypto and Sanctions Circumvention
Elise Thomas speaks with Tom Keatinge about why the growing role of cryptocurrencies in sanctions circumvention needs urgent attention.
In this latest episode, host Tom Keatinge caught up with Elise Thomas from the Centre for Information Resilience during a recent visit to London, to dive into her work on the murky world of A7 and its rouble-backed stablecoin ‘A7/A5’.
With Russian sanctions evasion a continual challenge, this episode shines an important light on how – and why – the Kremlin is supporting the development of alternative financial systems that avoid the traditional banking sector, and why policymakers must urgently address this rapidly expanding weakness in their Russia sanctions strategy.
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
