Research Hub

AML/CFT

• Understanding the role of the Danske Bank in one of Europe’s largest Money Laundering Operations Tanya Parkhi, Regtech Times

• Eurojust and ICC Prosecutor launch practical guidelines for documenting and preserving information on international crimes European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation

• Create, Connect, and Deceive: Islamic State Supporters’ Maintenance of the Virtual Caliphate Through Adaptation and Innovation Program on Extremism, The George Washington University

• Trade-based money laundering: The paper trail Global Trade Review

• AML/CFT Digital Strategy for Law Enforcement Authorities Financial Action Task Force
  

• Partnering in the Fight Against Financial Crime: Data Protection, Technology and Private Sector Information Sharing Financial Action Task Force

• Report on the State of Effectiveness and Compliance with the FATF Standards Financial Action Task Force

• Study of the Facilitation of Money Laundering and Terror Finance Through the Trade in Works of Art U.S. Treasury Department

• Best Practices for Anti-Money Laundering Compliance – 2022 American Gaming Association

• New EU Authority for Anti-Money Laundering European Union

• Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia Cullen Commission
  

• Financial Secrecy Index 2022 Tax Justice Network

• Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime: Effectiveness Expert Working Group Position Paper Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime

• Building an auditable record of beneficial ownership Open Ownership 

• Targeted Update on Implementation of FATF’s Standards on VAs and VASPs Financial Action Task Force

• EU context of anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism European Commission

• Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing : A Practical Guide for Bank Supervisors World Bank Group

• National Assessments of Money Laundering Risks: Learning from Eight Advanced Countries’ NRAs World Bank Group

• EBA calls for more proactive engagement between supervisors in anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing colleges European Banking Commission

• AML/CFT Supervision in Times of Crisis and Challenging External Factors MONEYVAL

• Bank Secrecy Act: Action Needed to Improve DOJ Statistics on Use of Reports on Suspicious Financial Transactions Government Accountability Office

• TI-US Comment on the NPRM for Phase One of the Corporate Transparency Act Transparency International

• Environmental crime data added to money laundering risk indicators in Basel AML Index Basel Institute on Governance

• Risk-based Approach Guidance for the Real Estate Sector Financial Action Task Force

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CRYPTO

• Stanford Researchers Propose Reversible Ethereum Transactions Kaili Wang, Qinchen Wang and Dan Boneh, Stanford University

• How does Tornado Cash work? Coin Center

• Dogecoin Gaining Traction for Illicit Use Elliptic

• Central Bank Digital Currencies and Regulatory Alternatives: the Case for Stablecoins U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

• Crypto, crime and control: Cryptocurrencies as an enabler of organized crime Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

• How we can regulate stablecoins now—without congressional action Brookings Institution

• Inside the crypto black markets of Argentina Freethink

• Are Blockchains Decentralized? Unintended Centralities in Distributed Ledgers. Trail of Bits

• Following the Crypto Center on a New American Security

• Government’s regulatory approach to crypto-assets and currencies UK House of Commons

• Tokenization and Regulatory Compliance for Art and Collectibles Markets: From Regulators’ Demands for Transparency to Investors’ Demands for Privacy Palgrave Macmillan

• How the Lummis-Gillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act (S. 4356) Would Alter the Crypto Regulatory Landscape U.S. Congressional Research Service

• Regulating Crypto: The right rules could provide a safe space for innovation International Monetary Fund

• Designing Interoperability for a Potential UK CBDC UK Finance

• Use of Cryptocurrency in Ransomware Attacks, Available Data, and National Security Concerns U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs

• Capitol Coin: Number of Cryptocurrency Lobbyists Nearly Tripled Since 2018 and Spending Quadrupled, With Help from Revolving Door Lobbyists and Corporate Allies Public Citizen

• Report to US Department of Commerce on Digital Asset Competitiveness Bitcoin Policy Institute

• Central Bank Digital Currency: Stability and Information Office of Financial Research

• Crypto Assets and Sanctions Compliance Global Digital Finance

• 2022 Crypto Crime Report Chainalysis

• How Cyber Criminals Target Cryptocurrency Proofpoint

• Practical Legislation to Support Cryptocurrency Innovation CATO Institute

• SEC Cryptocurrency Enforcement 2021 Cornerstone Research

• Stablecoins: Growth Potential and Impact on Banking Gordon Liao and John Carmichael, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

• The Future of Payments Is Not Stablecoins Rod Garratt, Michael Lee, Antoine Martin, and Joseph Torregrossa, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

• Use of Online Marketplaces and Virtual Currencies in Drug and Human Trafficking Government Accountability Office
  

• Following the Crypto Center on a New American Security

• Fact Sheet: Framework for International Engagement on Digital Assets U.S. Treasury Department

• Missing Key: The challenge of cybersecurity and central bank digital currency Atlantic Council

• International settlements using multi-CBDCs Bank for International Settlements

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RUSSIA

• Working Group Paper #5: The Case for Designating the Russian Federation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism International Working Group on Russian Sanctions, Stanford University

• Russian Cyberwarfare: Unpacking the Kremlin’s Capabilities Center for European Policy Analysis

• $2 Million and Counting: How Dozens of Pro-Russian Groups Are Using Cryptocurrency Donations to Fund the War in Ukraine Chainalysis

• The Rise of Sino-Russian Biotech Cooperation Svitlana Lebedenko, Foreign Policy Research Institute

• Hackers, Hoodies, and Helmets: Technology and the Changing Face of Russian Private Military Contractors Atlantic Council

• Individual Sanctions Roadmap: Recommendations for Sanctions against the Russian Federation – Working Group Paper #3 Stanford University

• Energy Sanctions Roadmap: Recommendations for Sanctions against the Russian Federation Stanford University

• Sanctions Against Russia: Understanding the Evolving Picture and How to Respond Chip Poncy & Leslie Devereaux Kuester, American Bankers Association

• Business Retreats and Sanctions Are Crippling the Russian Economy SSRN

• Silicon Lifeline: Western Electronics at the Heart of Russia’s War Machine Royal United Services Institute

• Exposed: How Russia-facing company formation agents took over the darkest corners of corporate Britain Finance Uncovered

• The cost of complacency: illicit finance and the war in Ukraine UK Parliament

• Cryptocurrency Crowdsourcing by Russian-Speaking Foreign Fighters in Syria Royal United Services Institute

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CHINA

• Restricting exports of sensitive technology to China Mario Mancuso, Carrie Schroll and Jordan Young, Reuters 

• Coercion, Capture, and Censorship: Case Studies on the CCP’s Quest for Global Influence International Republican Institute

• Chinese investment in Afghanistan’s lithium sector: A long shot in the short term Brookings Institution 

• China and synthetic drugs control: Fentanyl, methamphetamines, and precursors Brookings Institution

• Silicon Twist: Managing the Chinese Military’s Access to AI Chips Center for Security and Emerging Technology

• China’s Model of Science: Rationale, Players, Issues BluePath Labs

• Winning the web: How Beijing exploits search results to shape views of Xinjiang and COVID-19 Brookings Institution

• China’s Biomedical Data Hacking Threat: Applying Big Data Isn’t as Easy as It Seems Texas National Security Review

• Until Nothing is Left: China’s Settler Corporation and its Human Rights Violations in the Uyghur Region Sheffield Hallam University

• Combating Beijing’s Sharp Power Transparency Wins in Europe Journal of Democracy

• White Paper: China’s Export Controls Xinhua 

• China’s Interests in U.S. Agriculture: Augmenting Food Security through Investment Abroad U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

• Aoqin Dragon | Newly-Discovered Chinese-linked APT Has Been Quietly Spying On Organizations For 10 Years Sentinel Labs

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IRAN

• America’s Throwaway Spies: How the CIA failed Iranian informants in its secret war with Tehran Joel Schectman and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, Reuters 

• Iran Economic Monitor: Managing Economic Uncertainties World Bank

• How Iran exports its ideology United Against a Nuclear Iran

• Preventing Catastrophic Bioterrorism: Guarding Against Exploitation of the Life Sciences and Biotechnology Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

• Risk and Responsibility: Managing Future Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction Threats Center for a New American Security

• Iranian Spear-Phishing Operation Targets Former Israeli and US High-Ranking Officials Check Point Research

• Oceans of Deceit: Iran’s Deceptive Shipping Practices and Exploitation of the Maritime Industry United Against a Nuclear Iran

• Iran and Nuclear Weapons Production U.S. Congressional Research Service

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TERRORISM

• ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency in September 2022 Counter Extremism Project 

• Five Trends Driving the Future of Terrorism Foreign Policy Research Institute

• What Leadership Type will Succeed Al-Qaeda’s al-Zawahiri? International Centre for Counter-Terrorism 

• Inside the defector programmes battling to keep peace in the Philippines The New Humanitarian

• Mapping White Identity Terrorism and Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism Rand Corporation

• Containing a Resilient ISIS in Central and North-eastern Syria International Crisis Group

• Singapore Terrorism Threat Assessment Report 2022 Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs

• Afghanistan After Zawahiri: America’s Counterterrorism Options in the New South Asia Foreign Policy Research Institute

• Strengthening Sahelian Counterinsurgency Strategy Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Humour in Jihadi Rhetoric: A Comparative Analysis of ISIS, Al-Qaeda, TTP, and the Taliban Global Network on Extremism & Technology

• Pushed to Extremes: Domestic Terrorism amid Polarization and Protest CSIS

• The Taliban One Year On CTC at West Point

• Zawahiri’s Death and What’s Next for al Qaeda CSIS

• European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2022 Europol

• Global Terrorism Index 2022 Institute for Economics and Peace

• Weapons in Afghanistan: The Taliban’s Spoils of War International Centre for Counter-Terrorism

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CORRUPTION

• Big oil’s dirty secret in Iraq Joe Sandler Clarke, Unearthed

• Anti-corruption, transparency, and accountability in health management information systems CMI Anti-Corruption Resource Centre

• Draft Anti-Corruption Policy USAID

• A Reinvigorated US Anti-Corruption Strategy for Africa The Sentry

• The Capacity to Combat Corruption Index: Assessing Latin America’s ability to detect, punish, and prevent corruption Control Risks

• Meet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax System ProPublica

• Constructing Corruption: Identifying the Enablers Helping Build Violent Kleptocracies The Sentry

• Overview of Corruption in the Diamond Sector in Angola Transparency International

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FINANCIAL CRIME

• Counterfeit Wine, Spirits, and Cheese Recorded Future

• Taxing Crime: A Whole-of-Government Approach to Fighting Corruption, Money Laundering, and Tax Crimes World Bank Group

• Extortion or transformation? The construction mafia in South Africa Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

• Zama zamas just one part of a multibillion-rand organised crime economy that threatens SA Daily Maverick

• Dangerous games: Football hooliganism, politics and organized crime in the Western Balkans Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

• IOS: pioneering secrecy firm dogged by allegations of money laundering and ‘fake’ documents Finance Uncovered

• Illicit economies and armed conflict: ten dynamics that drive instability Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

• Economic Crime Report UK House of Commons, Treasury Committee

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CYBER

• Ransomware hunters: the self-taught tech geniuses fighting cybercrime Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden, The Guardian 

• How a Microsoft blunder opened millions of PCs to potent malware attacks Dan Goodin, Ars Technica 

• How the FBI Stumbled in the War on Cybercrime Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden, ProPublica 

• Ransomware tracker The Record

• Inside the Ransomware Gangs That Extort Hospitals Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden, New York Magazine

• Void Balaur | The Sprawling Infrastructure of a Careless Mercenary Sentinel Labs

• Downrange: A Survey of China’s Cyber Ranges Center for Security and Emerging Technology

• Project Nemesis, Doxxing and the New Frontier of Informational Warfare Institute for Strategic Dialogue
  

• A New Cyber Insurance Model: Continuous Control Validation Recorded Future

• Peddling for Profit: How Website Retailers Enable Bad Actors to Become the Master of Illicit Domains Digital Citizens Alliance

• Blind Sided: A Reconceptualization of the Role of Emerging Technologies in Shaping the Tactics, Techniques and Procedures of Information Operations in the Grey Zone Valens Global

• Artificial intelligence supporting cross-border cooperation in criminal justice EU Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation

• UK-US Data Access Agreement UK Government

• Perspectives on model risk management of cybersecurity solutions in banking McKinsey

• Cyber Operations during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: Lessons Learned (so far) European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative

• Victory reimagined: Toward a more cohesive US cyber strategy Atlantic Council

• 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report Verizon

• The Ransomware Task Force: One Year On Institute for Security and Technology

• Emergent Technologies and Extremists: The DWeb as a New Internet Reality? Global Network on Extremism & Technology

• White Paper: XX Messenger Network XX Network

• UK Government Cyber Security Strategy: 2022 to 2030 United Kingdom

• 2021 Trends Show Increased Globalized Threat of Ransomware U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

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DRUG WAR

• How McKinsey Got Into the Business of Addiction Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, NY Times

• Strengthening U.S. Efforts to Attack the Financial Networks of Cartels U.S. Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control

• EU Drug Markets Report Europol

• Venezuela’s Cocaine Revolution Insight Crime

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HUMAN TRAFFICKING/RIGHTS

• Preventing human trafficking of refugees from Ukraine The Freedom Fund

• Meta’s First Annual Human Rights Report Meta

• Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings Council of Europe

• U.S. Strategy to Anticipate, Prevent, and Respond to Atrocities U.S. State Department

• State Responsibility and the Genocide of the Yazidis Yazidi Justice Committee

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WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING

• Revealed: Wild Namibian elephants illegally sold into captivity in UAE The New Arab

• Annual Report Wildlife Justice Commission

• Illegal Wildlife Trade and Illicit Finance in the UK Royal United Services Institute

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MISCELLANEOUS

• Financial Services Industry Transformation Map 2025 Monetary Authority of Singapore

• Why the Chair of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission Thinks The U.S. Government Is Preventing a Real Investigation Into the Pandemic Current Affairs

• Torturing Palestinians: Exposing Systematic Torture by the Palestinian Authority & Hamas UN Watch
  

• North Korea: Legislative Basis for U.S. Economic Sanctions Congressional Research Service

• Far-Right Online Financing and How to Counter It Global Center on Cooperative Security