La surveillance des flux de capitaux s’apparente à une « gouvernementalité de la mobilité » qui érige les institutions bancaires en filtres protecteurs de l’architecture financière internationale. Ces filtres procèdent à l’évaluation différentielle des risques devant mener à...

When and how did the laundering of "dirty" money become an object of public concern, debate, and ultimately policy at the intersection of finance and security? This article sheds light on the social construction of money laundering as a public problem in the context of the U.S. War on Drugs...

The present paper examines current dynamics of surveillance regarding the fight against “terrorism” and its financing. Close analysis of the so-called “SWIFT Affair” and the US terrorist finance tracking program draw attention to one specific case-study which allows us to question the...

Private actors in finance, especially in the banking industry, have played a leading role in the campaign, institutionalized during the 1990s, against money laundering. Assigned the duty of detecting dubious transactions in their establishments, they are supposed to inform Tracfin - a finance...