Illicit finance is no longer a side issue, it is a core enabler of modern conflict, coercion, and gray-zone warfare.
In this episode, we speak with Adam Rousselle, Intelligence and Security Expert, on how illicit financial networks power terror financing, sanctions evasion, organized crime, and state-driven hybrid operations worldwide.
Moving beyond regional case studies, the discussion frames illicit finance as a global security architecture problem, shaped by fragmented regulation, data silos, and slow institutional response. Adam outlines a three-tier framework to explain how these networks are built, how money flows through them, and why they remain resilient.
We also examine where AI is genuinely changing the game in counter-illicit finance, network analysis, anomaly detection, pattern recognition, and where its limits remain without strong data, governance, and human judgment.
This isn’t about compliance. It’s about financial systems as battlefields, and why counter-illicit finance is now inseparable from national security and geopolitics.
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