Abstract
This report, commissioned by the Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST) initiative at United
Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), is based on 18 anonymized semi-structured interviews with officials from the UN, US, EU, UK, and Canada, financial institution representatives and experts on sanctions, modern slavery and human trafficking, transnational organized crime, supply chains, and corporate governance. These interviews were conducted between 15 December 2021 and 4 March 2022. This study is also based on desk research, including on existing sanctions regimes, relevant legislation and academic/policy studies. Finally, it benefited from consultations with 12 academic, think tank and financial sector experts.