RUSI Journal

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.