Since the early 1990s, the global approach to financial privacy has changed beyond recognition. All our financial transactions, no matter how trivial or significant, are subject to surveillance by banks and other regulated businesses, such as accountants and lawyers. 

These rules are meant to preclude criminal exploitation of the legitimate economy, but their effectiveness and value for money have long been questioned. They are also associated with serious unintended consequences, such as wholesale ‘de-risking’ of higher-risk customers or industries.

In Doing Business with Criminals: Between Exclusion and Surveillance (Cambridge University Press 2025), Dr Anton Moiseienko traces the history of financial surveillance as a core component of the global anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regime. 

This online event will feature discussion of some of the book’s key themes, including the inherent contradiction at the heart of the regime, namely the tension between excluding criminals from the legitimate economy and surveillance of their financial activities.

This event is free to attend, but booking is required.  

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