Insight Monitor Dispatches
A few updates from the team at Insight Threat Intelligence
We have a bit of news here at Insight Threat Intelligence. We're excited to welcome Emelia Connolly as the newest member of our team! Emelia is currently completing a master's degree in Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. She brings a blend of strategic, political, and historical perspectives to the evolving landscape of terrorism financing. She’ll be taking over from
who many of you know has been doing the bulk of the writing for our Global Terrorism Financing Report. Brett will remain with ITI but will be more focused on specific tasks relating to his expertise in library science.
I’m also happy to share that my recent article on open source financial intelligence (OSINT FININT) is out now in the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal. There are 50 free copies available at the link, and the full reference is at the footnote.1 The article situates open source financial intelligence in the broader literature on OSINT, and lays out a research agenda for pushing this intelligence discipline forward. Have a read! (And if there aren’t any free copies left, just shoot me an email and I can flip you a copy.)
As many of you no doubt noticed last week, there was a bit of terrorism news here in Canada. In case you missed it, you can read all about it in the newsletter linked below, or you can catch me on Power and Politics or The Current talking about it.
Canadian Military Members Arrested on Anti-Government Terrorism Charges
Yesterday, the RCMP announced that it had charged four individuals with offences relating to forcibly seizing land as part of an anti-government terrorist plot. The land the group was interested in wasn’t a government facility; instead, it was land that they could use to build a “
And last but not least, last week FATF released its Comprehensive Update on Terrorist Financing Risks. There’s lots to unpack here, so Stephen Reimer and I will be doing a Substack Live (my first one ever!) to chat about it next week on 23 July. We hope you’ll join us! And if you have any questions about this that you want us to address, please drop them in the comments below.
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Jessica Marin Davis, “Financial Open-Source Intelligence (FININT OSINT),” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, July 14, 2025, 1–14, https://doi.org/10.1080/11926422.2025.2510243.