Olivia Allison Discusses Conflict Financing on RUSI Podcast

Dr Olivia Allison joins Kinga Redlowska and Justyna Gudzowska on RUSI’s Suspicious Transaction Report podcast to discuss how armed groups finance conflict and support hostile state activity. Episode 2, Financing War in the Grey Zone, examines how gold, natural resources, regional financial centres, criminal networks and social media monetisation can sustain war economies and facilitate sabotage and recruitment. The speakers also explore how the Financial Action Task Force, governments, financial intelligence units and banks can improve their responses through conflict-financing typologies, better recognition of regional money laundering hubs and more agile, network-based approaches to sanctions, screening and risk detection.