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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.

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Episode thumbnail for Can the Financial Action Taskforce Turn Standards into Results?

July 24, 2026

Can the Financial Action Taskforce Turn Standards into Results?

<p>How can the global anti-financial-crime system become more inclusive, proportionate and effective in delivering meaningful results?</p> <p>Few institutions have as much influence over the global response to money laundering and terrorist financing as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). But the value of its standards ultimately depends on whether they produce meaningful change.</p> <p>In this episode of the Suspicious Transaction Report, host Tom Keatinge is joined by Elisa de Anda Madrazo, who has just completed her two-year term as FATF President, having previously served as its Vice-President.</p> <p>Reflecting on her presidency, Elisa discusses the transition to a more demanding round of country evaluations, the importance of prioritising effectiveness over formal compliance, and why financial inclusion and financial integrity must reinforce one another.</p> <p>The conversation also examines the unintended consequences and misuse of FATF standards, the need to listen to regional bodies and lower-capacity jurisdictions, and the continuing challenge of turning international cooperation into successful asset recovery.</p> <p>Looking ahead, Elisa argues that the FATF must remain humble, resist the instinct to equate improvement with greater complexity, and demonstrate its impact through practical outcomes: more crime prevented, more criminal assets recovered, and more money returned to victims.</p> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW213551980 BCX8"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW213551980 BCX8"><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW213551980 BCX8">Further reading from the Centre for Finance and Security at RUSI:</span><span class= "EOP Selected SCXW213551980 BCX8" data-ccp-props= "{"335559685":0}"> </span></p> </div> <div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW213551980 BCX8"> <ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW213551980 BCX8" role="list"> <li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW213551980 BCX8" role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props= "{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW213551980 BCX8"><a class= "Hyperlink SCXW213551980 BCX8" href= "https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/insights-papers/uk-fatf-mutual-evaluation-taskforce-second-meeting-report" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW213551980 BCX8" data-ccp-charstyle= "Hyperlink">UK FATF Mutual Evaluation Taskforce: Second Meeting Report</span></a><span class="EOP Selected SCXW213551980 BCX8" data-ccp-props= "{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":276,"469777462":[0,720],"469777927":[0,0],"469777928":[1,1]}"> </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW213551980 BCX8"> <ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW213551980 BCX8" role="list"> <li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW213551980 BCX8" role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props= "{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW213551980 BCX8"><a class= "Hyperlink SCXW213551980 BCX8" href= "https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/insights-papers/fatf-greylisting-and-financial-inclusion" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW213551980 BCX8" data-ccp-charstyle= "Hyperlink">FATF Greylisting and Financial Inclusion</span></a><span class="EOP Selected SCXW213551980 BCX8" data-ccp-props= "{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":276,"469777462":[0,720],"469777927":[0,0],"469777928":[1,1]}"> </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW213551980 BCX8"> <ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW213551980 BCX8" role="list"> <li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW213551980 BCX8" role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props= "{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW213551980 BCX8"><a class= "Hyperlink SCXW213551980 BCX8" href= "https://www.rusi.org/research-event-recordings/recording-fatf-greylisting-and-financial-inclusion" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW213551980 BCX8" data-ccp-charstyle= "Hyperlink">Recording: FATF Greylisting and Financial Inclusion</span></a><span class="EOP Selected SCXW213551980 BCX8" data-ccp-props= "{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":276,"469777462":[0,720],"469777927":[0,0],"469777928":[1,1]}"> </span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW213551980 BCX8"> <ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW213551980 BCX8" role="list"> <li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW213551980 BCX8" role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props= "{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW213551980 BCX8"><a class= "Hyperlink SCXW213551980 BCX8" href= "https://www.rusi.org/research-event-recordings/recording-women-anti-financial-crime-inspiring-next-generation-leaders" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW213551980 BCX8" data-ccp-charstyle= "Hyperlink">Recording: Women in Anti-Financial Crime: Inspiring the Next Generation</span></a><span class= "EOP Selected SCXW213551980 BCX8" data-ccp-props= "{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":276,"469777462":[0,720],"469777927":[0,0],"469777928":[1,1]}"> </span></p> </li> </ul> </div>

Episode thumbnail for Can Terrorist Financing Ever Be Stopped?

July 10, 2026

Can Terrorist Financing Ever Be Stopped?

<p>Why disruption, intelligence and genuine public–private partnership matter more than promises to eliminate every terrorist dollar.</p> <p>Terrorism may have slipped down the political agenda, but its financing remains a critical national security challenge. Attacks can be inexpensive, but terrorist organisations still require money and resources to recruit, communicate, travel, operate and sustain their wider networks.</p> <p>In this latest episode of the Suspicious Transaction Report, host Tom Keatinge is joined by Jason Blazakis, formerly Director of Counterterrorism Finance and Designations in the US State Department's Counterterrorism Bureau, currently a Professor at the Middlebury Institute in Monterey, California, and author of Terror Disrupted: Countering the Financing of Terrorism.</p> <p>They examine how terrorist financing has evolved since 9/11, what governments learned from confronting Islamic State, and the essential role of financial intelligence and private-sector partnership.</p> <p>The discussion also explores the extraordinary bureaucracy behind US terrorist designations, the challenge posed by the transnational radical right, the limitations of state-sponsor listings and the declining effectiveness of multilateral counterterrorist-financing mechanisms.</p> <p>At the heart of the conversation is a simple conclusion: success should not be measured by whether every terrorist dollar is eliminated, but by whether financial networks are disrupted, resources restricted and intelligence converted into effective action.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"> <strong><span style= "mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Further reading from the Centre for Finance and Security at RUSI:</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style= "mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> <!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style= "font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">      </span></span></span> <!--[endif]--><a href= "https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/occasional-papers/sharper-image-advancing-risk-based-response-terrorist-financing">A Sharper Image: Advancing a Risk-Based Response to Terrorist Financing | Royal United Services Institute</a></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style= "mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> <!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style= "font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">      </span></span></span> <!--[endif]--><a href= "https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/external-publications/terrorist-financing-age-large-language-models"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Terrorist Financing in the Age of Large Language Models</span></a></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style= "mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> <!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style= "font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">      </span></span></span> <!--[endif]--><a href= "https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/external-publications/virtual-threats-terrorist-financing-online-gaming"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Virtual Threats: Terrorist Financing via Online Gaming</span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"> <strong><span style= "mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Further reading from Project CRAFT:</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style= "mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2;"> <!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style= "font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">      </span></span></span> <!--[endif]-->Project CRAFT (Collaboration, Research and Analysis Against the Financing of Terrorism) is an academic research and community building initiative designed to improve counter terrorist financing (CTF) capacity around the globe. In 2025, CFS held a roundtable discussion to assess recent developments in CTF and produced a report entitled, <a href= "https://www.projectcraaft.eu/reports">Reassessing the Financing of Terrorism in 2025</a><span style= "mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</span></p>

Episode thumbnail for Iran's Long (Financial) Arm in Europe

June 26, 2026

Iran's Long (Financial) Arm in Europe

<p>How Iran uses proxies, shadow banking and criminal cut-outs to fund external operations and evade sanctions.</p> <p>Iranian-linked plots, surveillance activity and intimidation operations are drawing growing concern across Europe. But behind these activities sits a wider financial and logistical architecture that allows Tehran and its proxies to move money, evade sanctions and support operations abroad.</p> <p>In this episode of the Suspicious Transaction Report, Kinga Redlowska is joined by Matthew Levitt, Director of the Reinhard Programme on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, to examine how Iran's external operations are evolving and what this means for Europe.</p> <p>They discuss the use of criminal intermediaries, online recruitment and low-cost 'gig economy' tasking; the role of oil revenues, front companies and shadow banking in financing Iran's proxies; and the connections between sanctions evasion, procurement networks and operational activity.</p> <p>The conversation also considers Europe's response, the need to close gaps between counterterrorism, counterintelligence and organised crime investigations, and why stronger political will, enforcement capacity and cross-border cooperation will be essential as Iran's networks become more global, flexible and difficult to disrupt.</p>

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What is 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 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.

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