On 29 March 2018, the Treasury Committee launched an inquiry into Economic Crime. The report which extensively covers the evidence given by Tom Keatinge, Director of RUSI's Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, can be read here.
Tom Keatinge is the Director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at RUSI, where his research focuses on matters at... read more
Tom Keatinge
Banks and financial infrastructure are emerging as an expanding front in geopolitics.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
Stephen 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/CTF
A 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 Policing
Anton Moiseienko
As it unfolds, the Airbus corruption saga will offer yet another opportunity to reflect on whether wrongdoers are all too often able to hide behind corporations for which they work.
Tags: Aerospace, Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, International Institutions, Law and Ethics
Isabella 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, Terrorism
Kayla Izenman and Katherine Norton-Williams
The coronavirus outbreak may have averted or postponed North Korea’s aim of hosting a curious gathering of blockchain and cryptocurrency experts. Potential participants should resist the temptation to attend this event, should Pyongyang seek to reinstate it in the future.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Cyber, North Korea, Technology
Florence Keen
If social media is to deliver on its potential as a research tool for the provision of financial intelligence, a range of legal and ethical issues will need to be addressed first.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI Newsbrief, AML/CTF, UK
Tom Keatinge
Intelligence gaps are at the heart of the UK’s vulnerability to financial crime – evidence rather than supposition must form the basis of the response.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI Newsbrief, AML/CTF, UK, Intelligence
Mara Wesseling
With the possible creation of a European version of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP), SWIFT’s past experience with the TFTP provides valuable lessons for successful public–private security cooperation.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, United States, RUSI Newsbrief, European Union
A 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 Crime
Countering Money Laundering in an Evolving Technological Landscape
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, Technology
This 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
The Politics of UK Accession to Pacific Free Trade Club
Rose Roth, language and youth
Failure to Lift Off: The UK’s Space Launch Ambitions