Anna Hanson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. Her dissertation research examines the post 9/11 transnational regulatory system of anti-money laundering/counter-terrorism financing, which sits at the intersection of crime, finance, and risk. This project explores the emergence and subsequent roles of finance and financial intelligence on the ‘war on terror,’ and examines how various actors balance their desire to minimize geo-political risk (i.e. terrorism) through financial regulation and increased transparency, with the unintended consequence of increased financial insecurity, and financial exclusion for certain segments of the global population.