On 1-2 June 2022, Project CRAAFT convened a workshop in Bratislava for Slovak stakeholders on the terrorism financing (TF) challenges and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) opportunities presented by the country’s active FinTech sector. Workshop presentations delivered by leading financial crime experts in the FinTech industry, as well as researchers from RUSI, focused on helping participants to anticipate how their services might be abused by terrorists or their supporters operating abroad. This is a crucial challenge for a country such as Slovakia, which does not face a substantial terrorist threat within its own borders. By bringing together representatives of the FinTech industry and the public sector, participants witnessed first-hand the advantages and creative synergies generated through public–private collaboration to tackle TF.

From 12–13 May 2022, Project CRAAFT convened an online workshop for Montenegrin stakeholders on protecting the Montenegrin non- profit organisation (NPO) sector from abuse for terrorism financing (TF). This workshop reinforced the international standards set out by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on TF abuse of NPOs, and by bringing together representatives of the public sector, financial institutions and NPOs themselves, created space for open dialogue between these actors where there is rarely an opportunity to do so.

On 13-14 April 2022, Project CRAAFT convened a workshop in Vilnius for Lithuanian stakeholders on the terrorism financing (TF) challenges and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) opportunities presented by the country’s large FinTech sector, among the most active in Europe.