Banks as Security Actors: Countering Terrorist Financing at the Human-Technology Interface

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Esmé Bosma (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Banks as Security Actors

Countering Terrorist Financing at the Human-Technology Interface

Esmé Bosma (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

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Routledge
22 April 2025

Terrorism, armed struggle; Theory of warfare & military science; Military intelligence; Finance

Series: Routledge Critical Security Studies

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 transactions that banks process daily, detection of financial crime heavily relies on digital security technologies that help analysts categorise and identify risky customers and financial transactions. Drawing from theories at the intersection of International Relations and Science and Technology Studies, the book advances the concept of ‘de-scription’ to offer a framework for analysing experimentation with security and digital technologies in practice. The research is based on fieldwork conducted in the financial crime sector in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. It explores how political and ethical choices materialise at the human-technology interface and analyses the production of customer risk profiles, the design and use of transaction monitoring systems, and the emergence of public-private partnerships to counter terrorist financing.

This book will be of interest to students and researchers in International Relations, Science and Technology Studies, and Critical Security Studies.

By: Esmé Bosma (University of Amsterdam Netherlands)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781032760902
ISBN 10: 1032760907
Series: Routledge Critical Security Studies
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 22 April 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).