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STR: Suspicious Transaction Report
From the team analysing the intersection of finance and security, tune into compelling conversations on the real-world impact of global illicit finance. 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…
Episodes
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Combating Kleptocracy: Lessons from Sanctions on Russia
In this episode, Kinga Redlowska, Head of CFS Europe, is joined by Zoe Reiter, Director for Kleptocracy at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and Tom…
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CFCS at RUSI Has Changed Its Name – Here's Why
In this special edition episode of the Suspicious Transaction Report, CFS Director Tom Keatinge and Head of CFS Europe Kinga Redlowska discuss the motivation…
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Getting to Grips with Crypto
Host Allison Owen, CFCS Associate Fellow, is joined by David Carlisle, Vice President of Policy and Regulatory Affairs at blockchain analysis and crypto data…
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Enforcing and Preventing the Circumvention of Sanctions
In this episode, host Gonzalo Saiz, CFCS Research Fellow, is joined by Daniel Tannebaum, Partner at management consultancy firm Oliver Wyman, and Jan…
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A Financial Crime View from Africa
Host Tom Keatinge, CFCS Director, is joined by Xolisile Khanyile, former head of South Africa's Financial Intelligence Centre and RUSI Senior Associate Fellow…
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Treasury in the Time of Russia Sanctions: Insights with Liz Rosenberg
Host Tom Keatinge, CFCS Director, is joined by Liz Rosenberg, former Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes at the US Department of…
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Ukraine's Reconstruction: Russia Must Pay
Martin Sandbu, European economics commentator at the Financial Times, discusses the challenges and opportunities involved in using Russia's currently frozen…
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Sanctioning China: Examining the Dilemma
China's regular muscle-flexing and other threatening moves towards Taiwan poses a great challenge. How should the West think about this behaviour, given the…
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Fighting Financial Crime: Insights with Danny Glaser
The financial crime and sanctions world has mushroomed into a global industry. Thousands of compliance officers, analysts, policymakers and law enforcement…
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The Challenge of Sanctions Circumvention
Sanctions circumvention has been at the core of policy discussions on restrictive measures. But what does 'circumvention' mean, and what is the on-the-ground…
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The Impact of Sanctions on Russia
While the tempo of Russia sanctions issuance has dropped off, policymakers and diplomats are working to boost their effectiveness. But what does 'sanctions…
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Crypto Risk Assessed
Those in the private sector can often feel stuck between policymakers who fear cryptocurrencies are undermining their carefully built regulatory…
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Behind the Scenes of EU Sanctions Diplomacy
Effective implementation of sanctions requires cooperation with partners around the globe. Host Tom Keatinge, Director of CFCS at RUSI, sat down with EU…
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Hamas Financing
Before 7 October 2023, the terrorist threat posed by Hamas was largely clouded by preoccupation with geopolitical tensions and the ongoing war in Ukraine. But…
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Debanking in the Spotlight
Recently, the political class in Westminster has been consumed with with the conduct of bank accounts or, more specifically, when these are being closed…
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Losing its Legitimacy? The Future of the FATF
As multilateral organisations battle strong geopolitical headwinds, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) – the global financial crime watchdog – is not…
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Season 6 Trailer: A New Concept for STR!
Tom Keatinge and Alanna Putze, two of your CFCS podcast hosts, introduce a new concept for the Suspicious Transaction Report podcast, offering listeners fresh…
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Power, Wealth and State Threats
Is there a resurgence of state threats or have democracies just opened up their eyes to this complex challenge? In a season that explores today's varied threat…
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The Many Facets of the Cyber Threat
How do adversarial states exploit cyber to pursue their own strategic objectives? From intelligence gathering and information operations to physical disruption…
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Disinformation and Political Warfare
Disinformation is not new, but it has certainly evolved. Today, it is strongly linked to international security, as malign actors seize on it to pursue their…
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Emerging Security Challenges: NATO Adapts
Hybrid warfare is on the rise. From cyber and disruptive technologies to energy security and economic interconnectedness, malign actors have an array of…
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The State-Crime Nexus: Spotlight on Russia
How are organised crime and illicit finance exploited as vectors of state-based threats? This episode focuses on Russia and the unique capabilities it gains…
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Countries for Sale: Latvia?
Interference and influence – whether in politics, national institutions or boardrooms – has long been an objective of adversaries of democracy, who frequently…
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Non-State Proxies: The Wagner Group
What role do non-state proxy groups play in the current global security framework? This episode focuses on the Wagner Group, which has the potential to aid…
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The Financial Dimensions of State Threats
Are the UK and its allies sufficiently equipped to tackle today's threats from hostile state actors? And how might placing those threats under a financial lens…
STR: Suspicious Transaction ReportFinancial Crime Insights Episode 44: Ukraine's Reconstruction: Ensuring Transparency
Originally published 27 January 2023. Transparency will be key to managing Ukraine's reconstruction, both in ensuring the efficient use of resources and in…
STR: Suspicious Transaction ReportFinancial Crime Insights Episode 42: Reassessing the Financing of Terrorism
Originally published on 2 December 2022. Counterterrorist financing (CTF) efforts are a key part of tackling the emerging challenges at the nexus of finance…
STR: Suspicious Transaction ReportFinancial Crime Insights Episode 39: Sanctions Evasion: The Role of North Korean Diplomats
Originally published 21 October 2022. North Korea uses an array of techniques to evade sanctions. The international focus is often on the country's…
STR: Suspicious Transaction ReportFinancial Crime Insights Episode 38: The Illicit Finance Threat: A Transatlantic Response
Originally published 7 October 2022. Putting a stop to illicit finance matters for global security. The US and UK are well-positioned to lead this fight, but…
STR: Suspicious Transaction ReportFinancial Crime Insights Episode 35: Revolutionising Financial Supervision
Originally published 26 August 2022. How can the UK Financial Conduct Authority be more data-driven and innovative and apply risk-based supervision as it works…
STR: Suspicious Transaction ReportFinancial Crime Insights Episode 33: Corruption, Kleptocracy and Illicit Finance in the Balkans
Originally published 29 July 2022. Independent journalism and civil society are vibrant in the Balkans. Yet kleptocracy and corruption stifle the region's…
STR: Suspicious Transaction ReportFinancial Crime Insights Episode 31: Restricting Kleptocracy: The First Mile of Financial Crime
Originally published 1 July 2022. Kleptocracy is one of the foremost financial crimes of our time. The role of grassroots actors in holding governments and…
STR: Suspicious Transaction ReportFinancial Crime Insights Episode 30: Butler to the World: Britain's Dirty Money Problem
Originally published 17 June 2022. Journalist and author Oliver Bullough delves into his latest book, Butler to the World, which reveals how Britain came to…
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Active Financial Measures
The final episode explores a major global challenge that initially lacked a cohesive policy response and now poses an urgent threat. CFCS's Alanna Putze is…
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Sanctions: Spotlight North Korea
The UN first placed North Korea under international sanctions 15 years ago. Yet despite continued provocations and clear evidence of violations, there have…
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Punishment: Is It Working?
What happens when firms get financial crime compliance wrong? Ten years ago, the compliance world was rocked when the US authorities handed HSBC a $1.9 billion…
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Countering Proliferation Financing: What Lies Ahead
Countering the financing of weapons of mass destruction is an important component of global non-proliferation efforts. While the focus has largely been on…
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Environmental, Social and Governance Policy Evolutions
It's hard to keep up with the pace of change in environmental, social and governance (ESG) policy. With a number of game-changing developments in the past year…
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The Fraud Epidemic
Fraud is an age-old crime; one that has drastically evolved in recent years. Far from the small-scale individual acts or larger corporate offences of the past…
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Sanctions and Global Security
An unscheduled episode, recorded as the tragic events in Ukraine unfold. It considers the central plank of the West's response to Russia's aggression –…
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The Future Response to Asset Recovery
Confiscating the proceeds of crime seems like an obvious way to deter illicit activity, yet asset recovery is all too often an afterthought in the global…
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The Cryptocurrency Rollercoaster
More than a decade since Bitcoin's emergence, cryptocurrency continues to shake up the financial sector, keeping regulators on alert and intriguing the public…
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The Next Decades of Counterterrorist Financing
How can the current counterterrorism financing (CTF) regime remain relevant when the threat is constantly evolving? In the 20 years since 9/11, terrorists have…
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The Foundations of the Anti-Financial Crime System
Is the current global anti-financial crime regime on the right track? Just a few weeks after leaving his role as Executive Secretary of the FATF, David Lewis…
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End of Year Festive Special
What stood out for the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies team in 2021? Tune in to the annual festive podcast episode with Isabella Chase, Aaron…
STR: Suspicious Transaction ReportFinancial Crime Insights Episode 26: A Transatlantic Response to Illicit Finance: Starting at Home
Originally publised 22 October 2021. The US and UK have intensified their focus on tackling money laundering, kleptocracy and corruption. Now, words need to…