Disrupting terror finance, with the Middlebury Institute's Jason Blazakis

In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran Beer talks with Jason Blazakis about his book, "Terror Disrupted: Countering the Financing of Terrorism."

A professor at the Middlebury Institute and a former counterterrorism finance office director at the U.S. Department of State, Blazakis concludes that  the current global situation and the "combination of losing [anti-terrorism] resources with the 'deprioritization' of terror as a core security threat has put us at risk in a way we haven't seen since 9/11."

While describing red flags for financial institutions to identify terrorists and terror funds, Blazakis also names the actors he sees as most dangerous for America and argues for a greater government commitment to countering terror threats, not least from homegrown and self-radicalizing individuals who have been responsible for the accelerating number of terror attacks in America over the past thirty years. 

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