🔊 With the new UK National Security Strategy recognising that all elements of UK security are supported by our ability to tackle illicit finance, our latest #STRpodcast checks in on the progress made by the Labour government on tackling illicit finance after one year in office.

📢 New webinar recording – Virtual Threats: Terrorist Financing via Online Gaming How terrorist and extremist groups exploit online gaming platforms for fundraising, from in-game transactions to the development of bespoke games or livestream donations. 📽️ Watch the recording:

📢 New Commentary: The Future of UK Sanctions is About More Than Implementation and Enforcement The government’s recently published sanctions strategy under-promises, overdelivers and sets a vision for the future use of sanctions. Now the work begins. Read:

🔊The STR podcast is NOW LIVE - 10 Years at the Intersection of Finance and Security Kinga Dr Kinga Redlowska and Tom Keatinge look back on the highlights from the past 21 episodes, exploring major themes – from sanctions and statecraft to assessing the new Labour government’s progress

📢 New Commentary – Beware the Robots: AI-Enabled Sanctions Evasion is Here 🤖 The dawn of AI-enabled sanctions evasion threatens to fundamentally reshape global financial security. Those who police the implementation and evasion of sanctions need to radically rethink how they

📢 Check out this new Research Briefing from Project CRAAFT - Assessing Terrorist Use of Virtual Asset Intermediaries by Allison Owen Terrorist groups’ experimentation with virtual assets 🪙 highlights the growing need to understand integrated intermediary services that convert

Following the Fraud: The Role of Money Mules, by @kathrynwestmore & Allison Owen This new paper looks at the banking activity of ‘money mules’ - who lend their accounts to criminals to help hide their ill-got gains - to shed light on this growing problem. 🫏 Read:

ICYMI: Teaching the Business & Art of Sanctions Circumvention If universities in the West teach courses on sanctions & economic warfare, we shouldn’t be surprised by the emergence of a parallel world teaching the art of circumvention, writes Tom Keatinge

New #STR - Strategising the Use of Sanctions: in Conversation with Wally Adeyemo The former US Deputy Treasury Secretary speaks with host Tom Keatinge and argues that the effective use of sanctions requires clear objectives and outcomes, multilateral coordination, and rigorous

The EU’s 19th sanctions package against Russia risks symbolism over strategy without real enforcement, warns Dr Kinga Redlowska, head of The Centre for Finance and Security (CFS) at RUSI at RUSI Europe, in our interview. Read the full Q&A by Margherita Dalla Vecchia: buff.ly/L9lWLXm

New #STR Podcast: Economic Statecraft and Economic Security in Global Affairs Kimberly Donovan Kimberly Donovan Atlantic Council, talks to host Dr Kinga Redlowska about the important differences between economic security and economic statecraft. 🎧 Listen and subscribe: Apple:

New #STRpodcast: Crypto and Sanctions Circumvention Elise Thomas Centre for Information Resilience speaks with Tom Keatinge about her new report detailing the murky world of A7 and its rouble-backed stablecoin ‘A7/A5’. Listen and subscribe: Apple: bit.ly/4ndhgiJ Spotify: