RUSI research on financial crime and security threats

Between 2 and 4 September 2026, the Royal United Services Institute published research on financial regulation and security, addressing FATF anti-money-laundering frameworks, conflict financing, hybrid threats, proliferation risks, cyber campaigns by mid-tier states, and UK supervision effectiveness.

FATF warns of rising misuse of informal money-transfer networks

On September 3, 2026, the Financial Action Task Force published findings on growing criminal use of informal banking networks including hawala and similar service providers worldwide. The report urged governments and companies to address professional money laundering through underground banking systems.

# RUSI : Stay Humble and Listen: Elisa de Anda Madrazo on Leading the FATF https://www. rusi.org/explore-our-research/ publications/rusi-journal/stay-humble-and-listen-elisa-de-anda-madrazo-leading-fa

Pakistan lists JeM chief Masood Azhar as fugitive, raises bounty ahead of FATF review

[wiki Δ+2521] Money laundering

PrettyPony1234: → Laws by country : Added France to "Law by country", summarising the French Penal Code provisions on money laundering and the AML framework, with Légifrance and FATF sources.

FUZIP implements Measures from the FATF Action Plan to prevent Money Laundering - Sarajevo Times

Florida Enforcement Leaders Hold Inaugural Meeting of the Florida Anti-fraud Task Force to Enhance Federal-State Cooperation to Detect, Investigate, and Prosecute Fraud

The Abuse of Social Media and Messaging Platforms for Terrorist Financing

UK seeks bank case studies to demonstrate anti-money-laundering progress

By 2026-08-30, the British government asked banks and lawyers to provide case studies of successful money-laundering defenses. The effort aims to reassure global financial watchdogs that London has improved its anti-corruption record.

SkillBloat: Token Amplification Attacks via Skill Injection in LLM Coding Agents

21929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills extend coding agents with task-specific instructions, scripts, and resources, but they also create a trusted instruction channel that can be abused beyond conventional security attacks. This paper studies token amplification through skill injection: an economic resource-abuse threat in which a malicious skill causes an agent to consume substantially more tokens than needed for normal task execution.