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Conflict financing sits at the heart of many grey- and blacklisted jurisdictions, yet the FATF has never treated it as a distinct, cross cutting risk. In this Professional Insight, the author calls for a dedicated report on how wars are funded, to guide more nuanced, risk-based responses and strengthen the organisation’s credibility with conflict affected states.

In this Research Article, the author argues that the FATF’s current enforcement model, especially greylisting, is ill suited to lower-income countries. She calls for more representative governance and a shift from sanctions towards cooperative, interaction based compliance.

FATF Recommendation 8 was intended to protect legitimate charities, but in practice many sub-Saharan African governments have used it to justify blanket, costly regulation of non-profit organisations. This Research Article examines how over implementation harms civic space and financial access.

Russia’s mass abduction and militarisation of Ukrainian children is a grave abuse. This Feature assesses how far current sanctions address the problem and argues for broader measures that target the camps, officials, businesses and banks enabling it.

In this Feature, an investigator challenges the idea that blockchain analysis is too complex. Using his own practice, he argues that simple, systematic wallet labelling can expose large-scale illicit crypto activity, and calls for analytics firms and regulators to refocus on this work rather than hype-driven tools.

A Professional Insight in which the authors examine Russia's war in Ukraine and destabilisation of Europe to show how hybrid warfare is financed through illicit networks. They argue that the FATF and states need new typologies, metrics and controls to disrupt the funding.

Tom Keatinge reviews Everybody Loves Our Dollars: How Money Laundering Won, by Oliver Bullough.

Georgia Jones reviews Doing Business with Criminals: Between Exclusion and Surveillance, by Anton Moiseienko.

Tom Keatinge reviews Steal, directed by Sam Miller and Hettie MacDonald (Amazon Studios, 2026).

The author uses this Research Article to argue that the FATF's expanding demands risk creating 'reform overload' in lower-capacity jurisdictions. He shows how FATF Style Regional Bodies can act as stabilisers, so that effectiveness is sustained in practice rather than reduced to formal compliance.

In this Research Article, the author shows how developing countries carry a dual burden under the FATF system: costly efforts to build effective AML/CFT regimes; and the added economic fallout of greylisting when they fall short. She argues that mutual evaluations and listing should be context sensitive to avoid undermining reform in lower-capacity states.

A Professional Insight which argues that FATF proliferation financing risk assessments are being applied too narrowly, overly focusing on North Korea and Iran. The author suggests broader, country-led assessments that link proliferation risks to wider threats and feed into stronger financial security.

In this Research Article, the author argues that FATF Mutual Evaluations underplay governance and structural constraints, leading to unrealistic expectations of AML/CFT systems.

Drawing on the author’s experience as Executive Secretary, this Professional Insight argues that strengthening the secretariat is essential if the FATF is to survive growing geopolitical ruptures.

In a Professional Insight, the author questions the gap between principle and practice in the FATF's risk-based approach to financial crime. Is the FATF undermining its legitimacy?

Guest editor Kinga Redlowska introduces the special edition of the RUSI Journal.

An Interview by the Director of the Centre for Finance and Security at RUSI based on his podcast with the outgoing FATF President.