FININT

FININT

The main purpose of the Financial Intelligence Research Foundation (FININT) is to promote decision-making processes in the public and private sectors in order to prevent, mitigate or avoid the perverse effects of the circulation of assets, goods or money that are critical to the social, legal, economic and political stability of the nations that make up the global order. Currently, it has extended its field of action to public security, particularly in the area of organized crime and terrorism.

Therefore, its primary purpose is the development of academic studies and the design and implementation of government programs on new, dynamic, cross-border illicit behaviors with a high impact on peace, security and the finances of States, as well as on the new control and regulation mechanisms that have emerged in world society to mitigate the risks associated with the emergence of these illicit activities.

CRITERIA

FININT relies on the following criteria to intervene in its field of action:

  • Human freedom is only possible within a given institutional framework.
  • Law is founded upon a concrete order.
  • Politics is a guarantor of security for a community.
  • National interests serve as the necessary compass for productive globalization.
  • Human duties are a necessary precondition for human rights.
  • Conceptual realism entails objective analysis of reality, free from moral judgments.
  • Religious thought guides our actions toward a transcendent destiny.

SERVICES

FININT is active in the following areas:
– Development of applied studies on the issue of financial crime and financial intelligence.
– Advice to the public sector in the design and implementation of Financial and Asset Disruption Programs, whose premise is to develop a fully offensive and effective administrative action against criminal assets that feed the activity of criminal actors.
– Development of strategic regulatory agendas for money laundering and terrorist financing prevention systems.
– Development of studies and reports on complex crimes, especially those related to organized crime, drug trafficking, environmental crimes and terrorism.
– Design and implementation of multidimensional security programs for governmental entities.