Independent Research on Financial Crime, Sanctions & National Security
Public research and analysis at the intersection of AML, sanctions enforcement, AI/ML, cryptocurrency & stablecoins, economic statecraft, and U.S. national security.
Featured Research
Published · Minnesota Journal of Business Law and Entrepreneurship · 2026
Tariffs as Geo-Economic Statecraft
Research on tariffs as instruments of economic strategy, national security, supply-chain resilience, and strategic competition.
Published · International Journal of Financial Management and Economics · 2025
The Use of Generative AI by Financial Criminals
Research on generative AI-enabled fraud, synthetic identity threats, deepfake impersonation, and countermeasures for banks.
Published · International Journal of Applied Research · 2025
Insurance-Enabled Risk Governance in Supply Chain Finance
Research on insurance-enabled risk governance, digital architecture, financing access, and systemic resilience in deep-tier supply chains.
Analysis
Medium · Mar 28, 2026 · Global Financial Crime
Invisible Power: How Financial Systems Turned into Instruments of National Security
An introductory essay on how sanctions, tariffs, subsidies, AML, fraud, cryptocurrency, and AI are reshaping financial systems into tools of national security and economic statecraft.
Medium · Apr 10, 2026 · Stablecoins & Tokenization
The Dollar, Rewritten in Code: How Stablecoins and Tokenization Are Rebuilding Finance
A plain-English explanation of stablecoins, tokenization, programmable money, blockchain settlement, and how internet-native financial systems may reshape payments and financial infrastructure.
Research Focus
Current work focuses on global financial crime, economic statecraft, artificial intelligence governance, anti-money laundering, fraud, cryptocurrency risk, supply-chain resilience, and national security.
AML & Financial Crime
Typologies, control gaps, and systemic risk grounded in public sources.
Economic Statecraft
Sanctions, tariffs, subsidies, and trade policy as tools of national strategy.
AI, Crypto & Risk Systems
Model-driven detection, stablecoins, digital finance, and emerging risks.