Challenges with implementing proliferation financing controls: how export controls can help

Togzhan Kassenova, PhD, CAMS is a Washington, DC-based senior fellow with the Project on International Security, Commerce, and Economic Statecraft (PISCES), Center for Policy Research, University at Albany – State University of New York. This article is republished with kind permission from WorldECR (www.worldecr.com).

Why do financial institutions struggle to implement proliferation financing controls? Would looking at proliferation finance challenges as an export control matter help in the fight against the proliferators? Togzhan Kassenova suggests it is time for a re-think. [1]