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...

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...

While critical academic studies on financial surveillance blossom, they hardly pay attention to the critical capability of those who are involved in the implementation of anti-money-laundering/countering terrorist financing (AML/CTF) policy. In this paper the authors attempt precisely this...