In this series of posts, we’ll dive a little deeper into threats and risks, how they apply to your financial crime compliance program, the regulatory demands, and how Section 2’s Hybrid Threat Finance analysis can help.

What is Hybrid Threat Finance (HTF)?  HTF analyzes how threat actors—whether criminal groups, trafficking networks, cyber adversaries, or even hostile nation-states—exploit financial infrastructure to achieve their objectives.

A threat assessment identifies external sources of potential harm to the financial system.  The process of identifying who or what poses a threat, e.g., organized crime groups, terrorism financing networks, drug cartels, cyber criminals, or specific predicate offenses like human trafficking or corruption.

• Nature and scale of money laundering threats
• Typologies and methods used
• Emerging criminal trends or technologies
• Geographic and sectoral exposure to threats

The key output of a threat assessment is a portrait of the threat landscape.  Hybrid Threat Finance does just that.  HTF shows you what bad actors exist, how they operate, and what they’re targeting so the financial services can accurately assess who the threat actors may be in their businesses and how they may be using their products and services.