STR: Suspicious Transaction Report
Royal United Services Institute
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 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.
Suspicious Transaction Report is also home to CFS's 'Financial Crime Insights' podcast, which ran from 2020 to 2023.
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.
Suspicious Transaction Report is also home to CFS's 'Financial Crime Insights' podcast, which ran from 2020 to 2023.
Episodes
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Jan 28, 2022 • 30min
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 joins host Tom Keatinge in setting the scene for this season. They look at international financial crime policy through the prism of its history and ask if it is meeting its intended goals. How has policy taken shape over the last 30 years, how effective has it been, and what realistically needs to change in order for it to remain relevant?
Dec 17, 2021 • 41min
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 Arnold, Stephen Reimer and Helena Wood to find out about the financial crime scandals and surprises of 2021 and hear the team's predictions for the year ahead.
Oct 22, 2021 • 41min
Financial 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 translate into action. RUSI set up a Taskforce on a Transatlantic Response to Illicit Finance (TARIF) to provide urgent input into the policy debate. CFCS's Tom Keatinge is joined by Taskforce members Moyara Ruehsen of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and Lord Garnier QC to give the scoop on the first meeting and discuss why any solution must start at home.
Oct 8, 2021 • 58min
Financial Crime Insights Episode 25: FATF's Unintended Consequences: The Future
Originally published 8 October 2021. Around the world, misapplied AML/CFT measures facilitate the politically driven restriction of civic and political freedoms, threatening fundamental human rights. In the final episode of our series, Stephen Reimer looks at the future trajectory of abuse of FATF's standards, with guests Anietie Ewang of Human Rights Watch, leading law firm Peters & Peters' Michael O'Kane, Alyssa Yamamoto of the Mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights while Countering Terrorism, and Chapter Four Uganda's Nicholas Opiyo
Oct 1, 2021 • 50min
Financial Crime Insights Episode 24: FATF's Unintended Consequences: The Present
Originally published 1 October 2021. How are FATF's unintended consequences reverberating in the present day? In part two of our series, Isabella Chase speaks to Maha Bahou from Jordan Payments and Clearing Company, Revolut Poland's Adam Anklewicz, and Cenfri's Barry Cooper about FATF's work on financial exclusion, and how the Task Force's unintended consequences working group could help mitigate negative impacts of FATF's framework on financial inclusion.
Sep 24, 2021 • 1h 3min
Financial Crime Insights Episode 23: FATF's Unintended Consequences: The Past
Originally published 24 September 2021. In this first episode of a three-part series, Tom Keatinge is joined by Lia van Broekhoven from Human Security Collective, IAMTN's Veronica Studsgaard, Victoria Ibezim-Ohaeri of Spaces for Change, and Wendy Delmar from the Caribbean Association of Banks to assess FATF's past, delving into the standard-setter's efforts in relation to Non-Profit Organisations, Money Service Businesses, and correspondent banking.
Sep 10, 2021 • 27min
Financial Crime Insights Episode 22: Organised Environmental Crime: Dissecting the FATF Approach
Originally published 10 September 2021. In June 2020, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) urged countries to increase the use of financial investigations into illegal wildlife trade cases. A year on, in July 2021, it published a further analysis on mineral, waste and timber trafficking. In advance of the FATF's upcoming October plenary, Tom Keatinge and Alexandria Reid take a deep dive into the thornier aspects of the FATF's current approach to environmental crime.
Apr 19, 2021 • 37min
The NGO–Human Rights Sanctions Link
Governments pursuing human rights sanctions increasingly rely on evidence collected and submitted by NGOs on the ground. Charlie Loudon, international legal advisor at REDRESS – an organisation which fights torture – joins Emil Dall in offering insights on the vital role NGOs have in identifying states or entities that should be sanctioned, and why this matters not just for policy, but also for the victims. This week's 'In the News' includes CFCS's Emil Dall and Associate Fellow Samantha Sheen.
Apr 12, 2021 • 40min
Unintended Consequences: Humanitarianism and CTF Compliance
Aid organisations must navigate through tough circumstances to reach those most in need. The challenges are not solely physical; they also include compliance with a complex global sanctions and counter-terrorism finance regime, one that is often disconnected from realities on the ground. Former humanitarian policy advisor Rachel Sider joins Stephen Reimer to share insights from the field. This week's 'In the News' includes CFCS's Olivia Kearney and Associate Fellow Nick Turner.
Apr 6, 2021 • 38min
Dinosaur or Innovator? Inside the US AML Machine
Despite half a century of evolution, the US financial crime policy landscape remains as convoluted and challenging to navigate as ever. Yet, it has also shown real sparks of innovation, particularly in terms of information sharing and the much-lauded AML Act of 2020. Host Tom Keatinge is joined by RegTech consultant Jim Richards to dive into the complex world of financial crime compliance in the US and explore what might lie ahead. This week's 'In the News' includes RUSI's Darya Dolzikova and Associate Fellow Jessica Davis.
