CFS Partnership Forum
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Illicit finance fuels criminal networks, terrorists and kleptocrats worldwide. It takes advantage of vulnerabilities wherever they occur across societies - undermining progress, the rule of law, security and trust.
CFS is driving change. Our analysis is comprehensive, our solutions are viable, and our ideas are actionable. We envision a world where confronting financial crime is a collective responsibility – from policymaking bodies to business entities to individual citizens.
Your role
Play a part in shaping future responses to illicit finance. Our partnership forum enables you to stay on the pulse of the latest policy and research developments, helping to inform your decision-making through unique insights, knowledge development and networking opportunities.
And our team is sure to benefit from your input along the way as we channel bold thinking into current policy debates in order to stay ahead of evolving illicit finance threats.
How to participate
The partnership forum fee is £12,000 plus VAT per year. For more information, please contact Kirsten Thompson, Business Development and Partnerships Manager, CFS. The partnership forum fee supports CFS core funding and allows us to be nimble in our activities and innovative in our outputs. Feel free to also reach out if you are interested in teaming up on a specific project.
Key benefits
By joining our Partnership Forum, you will benefit from:
- Rapid analysis: invitations for up to three of your staff to special briefings following major policy initiatives, significant events or new CFS research findings.
- Sharing ideas: Opportunity for two of your staff to join our annual Ideas Lab, an internal brainstorm on emerging illicit finance trends informing the CFS’s possible future research directions.
- Access to expertise: Availability of a CFS research lead to speak at one partner event or give specialised team briefings (virtually or in-person in London) based on our existing expertise (up to two per year).
- Networking: Invitation to our end-of-year ‘Friends of CFS’ event, in addition to a full suite of CFS public events.
- Acknowledgement in RUSI’s list of supporters on the RUSI website, if desired.
Partnership Forum Supporters include:
Absa
At Absa Group Limited, our purpose of 'Bringing Your Possibilities to Life' reflects our commitment to integrity and responsible business practices. We take a proactive stance against financial crime, including money laundering, sanctions breaches, terrorist and proliferation financing, bribery and corruption.
To support this, we have implemented a robust, group-wide Financial Crime Risk Management and Compliance Programme aligned with the Bank’s policies, local regulations and global best practices. This framework enables us to effectively identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate financial crime risks across our operations, including our products, services, customers, suppliers, partners, agents, and affiliates.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.absa.africa
Chainalysis
Chainalysis is the blockchain data platform, making it easy to connect the movement of digital assets to real-world services. Organisations can investigate illicit activity, manage risk exposure, and develop innovative market solutions with deep blockchain data insights. Our mission is to build trust in blockchains, blending safety and security with an unwavering commitment to growth and innovation.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.chainalysis.com
City of London Corporation
The City of London Police Authority oversees the local and national roles of the City of London Police (COLP), ensuring their efficiency and effectiveness. COLP has a unique role keeping the UK’s financial district safe and secure, while being the policing national lead on economic and cyber crime, including the National Lead Force for Fraud. As part of the wider City of London Corporation, the Police Authority also has a key role in using the Corporation’s convening power and links to financial and professional services to support COLP’s local and national roles.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
Dow Jones
Dow Jones provides the trusted news, premium data and sharp insight needed to drive growth and manage risk in an uncertain world. Stay ahead of regulatory, reputational, and geopolitical risk with tools built for compliance. And unearth insights that matter around reputation, markets, and key issues to guide strategy. Our solutions give you the clarity to move with confidence.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.dowjones.com/professional/risk/
EY
EY has a large, globally co-ordinated financial crime and forensics capability and has invested heavily in the power of advanced analytics to fight financial crime, so we can help you protect your business, your customers and your shareholders. We work with you to transform your control environments, and use innovative approaches to improve effectiveness and efficiency, and meet regulatory expectations.
Contact form: www.ey.com/en_uk/about-us/connect-with-us
Government of Jersey
The Financial and Professional Services team within the Government of Jersey's Department of Economy plays a key role in developing and implementing policies to combat financial crime. Focused on maintaining Jersey’s reputation as a well-regulated international finance centre, the team works closely with industry, regulators, and international bodies to strengthen anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF), and anti-proliferation financing frameworks. Their work includes drafting legislation, contributing to national risk assessments, ensuring compliance with global standards such as those set by the FATF, and supporting strategic initiatives to enhance regulatory effectiveness and transparency across Jersey’s financial and professional services sectors.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.gov.je
HSBC
Founded in 1865, HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations. We serve around 41 million customers worldwide across 58 countries and territories, offering a wide range of financial services including personal, wealth and corporate banking. At HSBC, we are committed to preventing our products and services from being exploited for criminal activity. But fighting financial crime is a complex, long-term challenge that no organisation can solve on its own. We remain focused on working with our civil society partners, the wider industry and the public sector to improve the effectiveness of the global financial crime framework.
- Website:
- https://www.hsbc.com/
Isle of Man Countering Financial Crime
The AML/CFT Policy Office is the national coordination body for the Isle of Man’s AML/CFT/CPF regime, managing the Island’s engagement with international counterparts and coordinating domestic agencies. The AML/CFT Policy Office is also responsible for ensuring progress against the FATF Methodology and evolving international AML/CFT/CPF standards. In addition, the AML/CFT Policy Office also leads the AML/CFT/CPF National Risk Assessment process and the development and coordination of national Financial Crime Strategies and the National Action Plan.
Oliver Wyman
Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in more than 70 cities across 30 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. The firm has 7,000 professionals around the world who work with clients to optimize their business, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Oliver Wyman is a business of Marsh McLennan.
- Website:
- www.oliverwyman.com
Quantexa
Quantexa is a global AI, data and analytics software company pioneering Decision Intelligence to empower organizations to make trusted operational decisions with data in context. Using the latest advancements in AI, Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence platform helps organizations uncover hidden risks and new opportunities by unifying siloed data and turning it into the most trusted, reusable resource. It solves major challenges across data management, customer intelligence, KYC, financial crime, risk, fraud, and security, throughout the customer lifecycle.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.quantexa.com
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Global Insight (GI) provides intelligence and analytics to support strategic decision-making in military, law enforcement, and intelligence. GI enables professionals to anticipate geopolitical shifts, assess security risks, and monitor emerging threats. This includes illicit trade, dual use technologies, strategic competition, the weaponisation of trade, sanctions circumvention, and country analysis. Core data assets include maritime intelligence, bilateral/customs trade, bills of lading, forecasting, and location-specific risk scoring. With access to expert analysts and a robust database of intelligence events, GI supports effective risk management and strategic planning, ensuring informed decisions in complex and dynamic security environments.
Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered’s Compliance, Financial Crime & Conduct Risk (CFCR) team supports its commitment to being here for good by building a sustainable framework that places regulatory and compliance standards, and a culture of appropriate conduct, at the forefront of the Group’s agenda.
Our CFCR colleagues are made up of experts who are dedicated to help Standard Chartered detect and safeguard against financial crime such as money laundering and fraud. The team also helps ensure Standard Chartered is operating in compliance with all relevant laws and regulations while holding everyone in the Bank to the high conduct expectations we have set ourselves. As a team, we leverage the latest techniques and technologies in the financial crime and compliance areas, and we work closely with other teams to ensure all CFCR Policies and Standards are upheld.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.sc.com/en/
Stripe
Stripe is building programmable financial services for businesses. Millions of companies use Stripe to accept payments online and in person, embed financial services, power custom revenue models, and build a more profitable business. Driven by its Financial Crime, Compliance, and Risk Oversight (FinCRO) function, Stripe takes a multi-faceted approach to combating fraud and financial crime, leveraging technology, data analysis, and partnerships to protect its users and their businesses.
- Website:
- www.stripe.com
SymphonyAI
SymphonyAI is building the leading enterprise AI SaaS company for digital transformation across the most critical and resilient growth verticals, including financial services. An end-to-end offering compiled from more than 25 years of knowledge in tackling money laundering and fraud, our award-winning product ecosystem comprises an innovative and modern approach to financial crime investigation using world-leading predictive and gen AI. From KYC/CDD and transaction monitoring through to payments fraud, entity resolution, and sanctions, PEP, and adverse media screening, SymphonyAI is a trusted name in finance technology with more than a third of the world's top 100 banks enjoying the power, efficiency, effectiveness and productivity that our solutions provide.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.symphonyai.com
Windward
Windward is the leading Maritime AI™ company, providing an all-in-one platform to accelerate global trade. Windward's AI-powered decision support and exception management platform, enhanced with Generative AI, offers a 360° view of the maritime ecosystem and enables stakeholders to make real time, predictive intelligence-driven decisions to achieve business and operational readiness.
By integrating advanced AI and Generative AI capabilities, Windward delivers deeper insights, automated risk analysis, and enhanced maritime intelligence and context. Windward's Maritime AI™ supports companies across industries. The company's clients range from energy supermajors, shipowners, mining companies, freight forwarders, and port authorities, to banks, insurers, and governmental organisations.
- Website:
- www.windward.ai
About CFS
Driving change
RUSI’s Centre for Finance and Security (CFS) is a leading authority on the intersection of finance and security. Its comprehensive research and partnership-based approach equips the international community with the knowledge, tools and insights to understand and identify innovative responses to illicit finance. The CFS impacts policy and drives change because we offer realistic solutions across sectors. There is no other not-for-profit organisation that offers this full suite of independent pioneering analysis, along with practical application in the anti-financial crime space.
Influencing policy agendas
The CFS’s expertise is regularly cited by governments, international bodies, media and businesses. The team has briefed a range of policymaking bodies, including Parliaments in the UK, EU, Canada and Australia, US Congress, the UN Security Council and the Financial Action Task Force.
Pioneering real solutions
Our research on counterproliferation finance has been translated into law in numerous countries. Our trainings on cryptocurrency abuse, countering the financing of terrorism and the illegal wildlife trade have equipped thousands of private and public sector actors in identifying illicit finance threats worldwide. We have also unveiled the complexities behind international illicit finance as part of large-scale global investigations, such as the Luanda Leaks and the Panama Papers.
Advancing the conversation
We are a convening power in the financial crime policy landscape, with an extensive international network of governments, international organisations and the private sector. Since our establishment in 2014, we have become a forum of choice for thought leaders from both the public and private sectors. We strategise at a high-level, while ensuring that our research and ideas are accessible to wider audiences via public events, dynamic podcasts and sharp commentaries.