This episode explores the potential of whistleblower reward programmes to transform economic crime investigations.

CFS Director Tom Keatinge is joined by Eliza Lockhart, Research Fellow at CFS, and Nick Ephgrave, Director of the Serious Fraud Office, to discuss Eliza’s SOC ACE research paper, ‘The Role of Financial Rewards for Whistleblowers in the Fight Against Economic Crime’. Together, they examine how financial incentives could empower whistleblowers, tackle economic crime and drive cultural and systemic change in the UK.

Read the full paper

Talk of state threats, hostile states and hybrid warfare has notably increased. But how do these threats differ from those faced in the past?

CFS Director Tom Keatinge is joined by Matthew Redhead, Senior Associate Fellow at CFS, to discuss his new Serious Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Evidence (SOC ACE) research programme paper, ‘Old Wine, New Bottles: The Challenge of State Threats’, and to explore this increasingly prevalent phenomenon.

Read the report here: https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/external-publications/old-wine-new-bottles-challenge-state-threats

We explore the growing threat of sabotage attacks across Europe and the technological tools used for financing and recruitment.

Host Tom Keatinge is joined by Dr Daniela Richterova, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, and Holger Roonemaa and Inga Springe, investigative journalists from the Baltic states, to discuss Russia’s growing campaign of sabotage.

For further reading, see Holger and Inga’s reporting here and Daniela’s co-authored article for the RUSI Journal on the sabotage gig economy here.