Date: , 5:30PM – 6:30PM
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.
Panellists:
Dr Anton Moiseienko is a Senior Lecturer and Research Director at the Australian National University Law School. His work focuses on financial crime, including money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing, and the legal and policy aspects of economic sanctions.
Anton’s research has been published in leading journals, including the Modern Law Review, American Journal of International Law, Criminal Law Review, European Journal of International Law, German Law Journal, International and Comparative Law Quarterly and Leiden Journal of International Law.
Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas
Professor of European and Global Law
Dean of School of Law & Social Justice
University of Liverpool
Professor Peter Alldridge
Draper’s Professor of Law
Queen Mary, University of London
Marine Corhay
PhD Candidate in Law
University of Liège (Belgium)
Chair:
Dr Nora Ni Loideain
Senior Lecturer in Law
Director, Information Law & Policy Centre
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies