E170: What does the board need to know about AML?
"AML is a board-level topic." – but is this true in practice?Is this more a provocative challenge than a current statement of fact? Under the EU's incoming AMLR, that may be set to change, but are mos...
6 Aug 34min
Re-Spin: How do we stop MLRO burnout?
MLROs are vital to financial services - a crucial link between companies, the risks they face, and the authorities.The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority have previously sent a warning to hundreds of c...
30 Juli 30min
Re-Spin: Did Wirecard's collapse shape the future of whistleblowing?
The Wirecard scandal has become the stuff of legend.A German payments company, worth tens of billions of euros, collapsed following the exposure of massive accounting fraud and financial misconduct. I...
23 Juli 26min
E169: Is AMLA *really* on track?
No one said building a regulator from the ground up would be easy.But when the organisation chair, Bruna Szego, describes it as like ‘flying a plane while building it’ – you have to wonder how things ...
16 Juli 38min
E168: Can following the money disrupt the illegal wildlife trade?
The illegal wildlife trade is the fourth-biggest criminal market on the planet — behind only narcotics, counterfeiting, and human trafficking. And like any criminal trade of that scale, there's a huge...
9 Juli 31min
E167: What keeps payments players up at night?
According to Money20/20, the EMEA region accounts for 48% of the world's outbound cross-border payment flows — just under half!Now put yourself in the position of assessing those billions of transacti...
2 Juli 32min
E166: What does it take to get sanctioned by Putin at 17?
What were you doing at seventeen? If you were getting into trouble, it might've been with your teacher or parents!How about uncovering money laundering and, in turn, being sanctioned by the Russian go...
25 Juni 22min
E165: How do we combat the professionalisation of money laundering?
What do you think is keeping anti-financial crime professionals up at night?According to Nasdaq Verafin's latest Global Financial Crime Report, there's something more pressing than deepfakes or even A...
18 Juni 31min
