Financial Crime Publications & Expert Research
Explore expert financial crime publications, crypto compliance insights, and thought leadership by Dr. Noémi També. This page features research, guides, and strategic commentary on AML, CTF, sanctions, and global financial crime risks.
DNFBPs and Mutual Evaluations: getting ready!
What better way to welcome spring with a trip to Dubai to support the Executive Office for Control & Non-Proliferation, who set up in collaboration with the Ministry of Economy, a summit on "The Role of the DNFBPs Sector in Fighting Financial...
Foreign State Funding and Predicate Subversion
Terrorism financing researchers and risk practitioners focus on the funding of terrorist acts and terrorist organisations. Recently, with the emergence of lone actor and small cell attacks, this has meant analysing selffunded terrorist activities. New funding...
Crypto-Asset Recovery: Challenges, Observed Practices and Strategies
The international community continues to face challenges in recovering criminal proceeds. This guide is designed to support jurisdictions in the early stages of developing crypto-asset recovery frameworks, offering guidance on crafting mitigating strategies and...
Challenges for Counter-Proliferation Finance and Sanctions Control in Banking
This report focuses on international and unilateral sanctions frameworks regarding the proliferation of WMDs in North Korea, Iran and Russia, identifying the challenges of implementing counter-proliferation finance and sanctions controls. In light of the increasingly...
Institutional Virtual Assets Risk Assessment Guide
This guide is designed to provide a standardised approach to assessing financial crime risk within the cryptocurrency industry. It documents observed and emerging risks to allow institutions to identify high-risk activities and determine strategies to tackle such...
Institutional Proliferation Finance Risk Assessment Guide
This guide is designed to provide multi-jurisdictional support to the private sector in identifying activities that may be higher risk, determining the levels of risks the sector faces, and developing strategies to tackle such risks. While governments have a role to...
Revolutionising Financial Supervision
This Policy Brief examines how the FCA should work with its regulated populations to be more data-driven, innovative and apply risk-based supervision. In recent years, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has committed to delivering enhanced anti-money laundering...
Fight Poverty and Crime Through Financial Inclusion
Today, an estimated 1.7 billion people around the world lack access to basic financial services and products – a situation that perpetuates poverty, fuels informal money transfer systems, and leaves populations vulnerable to criminal exploitation. But it doesn’t have...
Risk-based and Data-led: Can the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority Meet its Ambition?
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) aims to be a data-led supervisor, but can it keep pace with private sector innovation and funding? In July this year, as part of a commitment made in the UK government’s Economic Crime Plan (2019–2022) and in the context of...
Re-thinking de-risking: a systems theoretical approach
Abstract Purpose This paper aims to explain the de-risking phenomenon through Luhmann’s risk/danger model and demonstrate that de-risking should be facilitated and encouraged. Design/methodology/approach The paper applies Luhmann’s system theory and more...
This guide is designed to provide multi-jurisdictional support to the private sector in identifying activities that may be higher risk, determining the levels of risks the sector faces, and developing strategies to tackle such risks. While governments have a role to... Today, an estimated 1.7 billion people around the world lack access to basic financial services and products – a situation that perpetuates poverty, fuels informal money transfer systems, and leaves populations vulnerable to criminal exploitation. But it doesn’t have...
Institutional Proliferation Finance Risk Assessment Guide
Fight Poverty and Crime Through Financial Inclusion
Crypto-Asset Recovery: Challenges, Observed Practices and Strategies
The international community continues to face challenges in recovering criminal proceeds. This guide is designed to support jurisdictions in the early stages of developing crypto-asset recovery frameworks, offering guidance on crafting mitigating strategies and...
Institutional Virtual Assets Risk Assessment Guide
This guide is designed to provide a standardised approach to assessing financial crime risk within the cryptocurrency industry. It documents observed and emerging risks to allow institutions to identify high-risk activities and determine strategies to tackle such...
Revolutionising Financial Supervision
This Policy Brief examines how the FCA should work with its regulated populations to be more data-driven, innovative and apply risk-based supervision. In recent years, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has committed to delivering enhanced anti-money laundering...
Risk-based and Data-led: Can the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority Meet its Ambition?
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) aims to be a data-led supervisor, but can it keep pace with private sector innovation and funding? In July this year, as part of a commitment made in the UK government’s Economic Crime Plan (2019–2022) and in the context of...
Re-thinking de-risking: a systems theoretical approach
Abstract Purpose This paper aims to explain the de-risking phenomenon through Luhmann’s risk/danger model and demonstrate that de-risking should be facilitated and encouraged. Design/methodology/approach The paper applies Luhmann’s system theory and more...
Foreign State Funding and Predicate Subversion
Terrorism financing researchers and risk practitioners focus on the funding of terrorist acts and terrorist organisations. Recently, with the emergence of lone actor and small cell attacks, this has meant analysing selffunded terrorist activities. New funding...
Challenges for Counter-Proliferation Finance and Sanctions Control in Banking
This report focuses on international and unilateral sanctions frameworks regarding the proliferation of WMDs in North Korea, Iran and Russia, identifying the challenges of implementing counter-proliferation finance and sanctions controls. In light of the increasingly...
Institutional Proliferation Finance Risk Assessment Guide
This guide is designed to provide multi-jurisdictional support to the private sector in identifying activities that may be higher risk, determining the levels of risks the sector faces, and developing strategies to tackle such risks. While governments have a role to...
