Crypto and Sanctions Circumvention

Elise Thomas speaks with Tom Keatinge about why the growing role of cryptocurrencies in sanctions circumvention needs urgent attention. In this latest episode, host Tom Keatinge caught up with Elise Thomas from the Centre for Information Resilience during a recent visit to London, to dive into her work on the murky world of A7 and its rouble-backed stablecoin 'A7/A5' With Russian sanctions evasion a continual challenge, this episode shines an important light on how - and why - the Kremlin is supporting the development of alternative financial systems that avoid the traditional banking sector, and why policymakers must urgently address this rapidly expanding weakness in their Russia sanctions strategy.