​The Future of Financial Intelligence Sharing (FFIS) programme leads independent research into the role of public-private and private-to-private sector financial information-sharing partnerships to detect, prevent and disrupt crime. 

The FFIS programme is a research partnership hosted within the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Centre for Finance and Security

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

​View and download FFIS research papers:

• Policy Discussion Paper: "A new era of private sector collaboration to fight economic crime" (March 2025)
  
  
• Payment Systems Policy Discussion Series "The case for national policy-makers to unleash the potential of payments infrastructure to identify economic crime risk" (January 2024)
  
  
• Payment Systems Policy Discussion Series "The case for the G20 cross-border payment reform 'Roadmap' to embed economic crime security by design" (January 2024) 

 

• Survey and Policy Discussion Paper "Lessons in private-private financial information sharing to detect and disrupt crime" (July 2022)

 

• Innovation and discussion paper: "Case studies of the use of privacy preserving analysis to tackle financial crime" (January 2021)

 

• ​FFIS Survey Report "Five years of growth in public-private partnerships to fight financial crime" (August 2020) 

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• FFIS Report "Expanding the Capability of Financial Information-Sharing Partnerships" (March 2019)

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• FFIS Report ​"The Role of Financial Information-Sharing Partnerships in the Disruption of Crime" (October 2017)

"The partnership approach is at the forefront of innovation and impact in the modern day fight against financial crime. We provide a world leading centre of research and peer-learning to better understand the role, opportunity and implications of private-to-private and public-private financial information sharing partnerships."
 - Nick J Maxwell, Head of the FFIS Programme

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