Threat Finance

Criminal and terrorist organisations are increasingly turning to white collar crime such as fraud e-crime bribery data and identity theft in addition to more violent activities involving kidnap and ransom narcotics and arms trafficking to fund their activities and in some cases pursue their cause. The choice of victims is global and indiscriminate. The modus operandi is continually mutating and increasing in sophistication; taking advantage of weaknesses in the system whether they be technological legal or political. Countering these sources of threat finance is a shared challenge for governments the military NGOs financial institutions and other businesses that may be targeted. Shima Keene’s Threat Finance offers new thinking to equip any organisation regardless of sector and geographical location with the knowledge and tools to deploy effective counter measures to tackle the threat. To that end she brings together a wide variety of perspectives - cultural legal economic and technological - to explain the sources mechanisms and key intervention methodologies. The current environment continues to favour the criminal and the terrorist. Threat Finance is an essential read for fraud and security practitioners financial regulators policy-makers intelligence officials judges and barristers law enforcement officers and researchers in this field. Dr Keene offers an antidote to the lack of good applied research; shortcomings in in-house financial and forensic expertise; misdirected financial compliance schemes; legal and judicial idiosyncrasies; unhelpful organisation structures and poor communication. She argues convincingly for a coherent aggressive informed and cross-disciplinary approach to an ever changing and rapidly growing threat.