1st Edition
Banks as Security Actors Countering Terrorist Financing at the Human-Technology Interface
By Esmé Bosma
Copyright 2025
208 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book analyses how banks implement counter-terrorist financing measures and experiment with technologies to assess risks and make security decisions.
Banks have become private security actors. As “gatekeepers” of the financial system, they are legally obliged to conduct customer research and monitor bank accounts for unusual or suspicious transactions. Given the sheer volume of financial... Read more
Chapter 1: Banks As Security Actors Chapter 2: A De-Scriptive Approach To Studying Security Practices Chapter 3: A Multi-Sited Ethnography Of Digital Security Technologies Chapter 4: Know Your Data As The New Know Your Customer Chapter 5: De-Scription Of Transaction Monitoring Systems Chapter 6: Techno-Legal Gateways Of Financial Information-Sharing Partnerships Chapter 7. Conclusions Appendices
Biography
Esmé Bosma obtained her PhD in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam, as part of the FOLLOW project funded by the European Research Council. She is the co-editor of Secrecy and Methods in Security Research. A Guide to Qualitative Fieldwork (2019).
