Tom Keatinge, Director of RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime, and David Carlisle, Associate Fellow, spoke at the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Terrorism. They presented the findings of their paper (authored with RUSI Research Analyst Florence Keen), commissioned by the Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs.
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Virtual Currencies and Terrorist Financing: Research for the European Parliament
News, 22 June 2018Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Cyber, AML/CTF, Terrorism
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Shooting the Messenger: Do Not Blame the Internet for Terrorism
Newsbrief, 15 February 2019Andrew Glazzard
The internet clearly matters to terrorists, but online content by itself rarely causes people to carry out terrorist attacks. Responses should therefore not be limited to the mass removal of terrorist content from online platforms.
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The Scale of Money Laundering in the UK: Too Big to Measure?
Briefing Papers, 11 February 2019Anton Moiseienko and Tom Keatinge
By measuring the measurable – rather than lamenting the immeasurability of the immeasurable – the lower bounds of the scale of money laundering in the UK can be established.
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Public–Private Collaboration to Counter the Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes: What Can be Learnt from Efforts on Terrorist Financing?
Other Publications, 7 February 2019Florence Keen
Notwithstanding inherent differences between the counterterrorist financing regime and the regulatory regime governing communication service providers, there are clear benefits in taking lessons learnt from longstanding efforts on terrorist financing into account when developing a response to the online terrorist threat.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, The Global Research Network on Terrorism and Technology, AML/CTF, Tackling Extremism, Other Publications, Information, Technology, TerrorismPages

A Hard Hardware Breach
Commentary, 29 January 2019Tom Ascott
Western governments are shedding their inhibitions about naming and shaming states suspected of infiltrating their critical national infrastructure. This is a good step, but should be just the beginning.
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One Step at a Time: Limited Reform of UK’s Limited Partnerships
Commentary, 22 January 2019Anton Moiseienko
The UK government is proposing to tighten procedures for establishing limited partnerships, in an effort to close an avenue for money laundering. This is a welcome move, but perhaps not sufficient.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UK, Organised Crime
US and China: Trade, Technology Theft and Arrests
Commentary, 18 January 2019Charlie Parton
A clear differentiation is required between trade and technology wars, Huawei and politicised arrests of foreign nationals. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is deliberately confusing them, and President Trump is not helping.
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Shooting the Messenger: Do Not Blame the Internet for Terrorism
Newsbrief, 15 February 2019Andrew Glazzard
The internet clearly matters to terrorists, but online content by itself rarely causes people to carry out terrorist attacks. Responses should therefore not be limited to the mass removal of terrorist content from online platforms.
Tags: UK Counter-terrorism, Newsbrief, Tackling Extremism, National Security Studies, Information, Technology, Terrorism
Book Review: An Army of Tribes: British Army Cohesion, Deviancy and Murder in Northern Ireland
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Christian Tripodi reviews An Army of Tribes: British Army Cohesion, Deviancy and Murder in Northern Ireland, by Edward Burke.
Tags: RUSI Journal, UK Counter-terrorism, Counterinsurgency, Security Policy, UK, History, Securing Britain, Terrorism, Europe
The Failure of China’s Security Policy in Xinjiang
Newsbrief, 11 January 2019Edward Schwarck
The mass internment of Xinjiang’s Uyghurs in supposed ‘re-education’ facilities as a means of combatting violent extremism suggests that Beijing lacks confidence in the effectiveness of its intelligence architecture, and by extension, its capacity to identify and eliminate actual terrorist threats.
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The UK's Fight Against a ‘McMafia’ World
Multimedia, 23 February 2018Tom Keatinge, Director of Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at RUSI, on financial crime in Latvia and UK efforts to counter money laundering.
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Terror in Kabul
Multimedia, 30 January 2018Aaditya Dave, Research Analyst at RUSI, talks terror in Afghanistan in the wake of the recent attacks.
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Tackling Financial Crime in 2018
Multimedia, 4 January 2018Tom Keatinge and Olivier Kraft discuss developments and challenges in fighting financial crime in 2018.
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RUSI Experts React to UK’s Financial Action Task Force Mutual Evaluation Report
News, 7 December 2018UK still central to global money laundering schemes, despite positive evaluation from international financial watchdog.
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Virtual Currencies and Terrorist Financing: Research for the European Parliament
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New Partnership with the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism
News, 8 June 2018New international research network to examine terrorists' use of internet technologies.
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RUSI Paper Launch: A Wicked Problem - Driving Change in the UK's AML Regime Following the 2018 FATF Evaluation
Events, 20 February 2019This event offers an opportunity to critique and discuss the 2018 FATF evaluation in the context of the UK's prevailing money-laundering problems, as well as to debate the key priority areas for...
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Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business
Events, 7 February 2019RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies is delighted to welcome Dr Anja Shortland from King’s College London to discuss her new book, ‘Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business’.
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RUSI Paper Launch – Targeting the Finances of Cybercrime
Events, 4 December 2018Ranging from bank account takeovers to the theft of cryptocurrency, cybercrime has evolved into a major type of profit-generating crime. Since cybercrime is often financially motivated, disrupting...
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