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Captivated Audience: A Financial Crime Podcast

141 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago -

This podcast was inspired by the evolving Covid-19 restrictions and how it has impacted compliance professionals working in financial crime prevention. Reaching out to individuals across the globe, hosts Samantha Sheen and Marie Lundberg look at how people are adjusting to remote working from home while still keeping up efforts to detect, prevent and disrupt financial crime. The topics covered range from governance, KYC, transaction monitoring to cyber security and accountability.Taking a plain speaking approach, Marie and Sam analyse notable cases involving financial crime, epic “compliance fails” and lessons learnt along the way. And to help fellow compliance professionals keep on top of their CPD, case studies with illustrative slides are also included – a bit like story time for adults – so enjoy.

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Ina Rothe, Managing Director and Founder, Co-managing director and Co-founder of ALL AML GmbH, (KYC and Germany's Transparency Register)

August 11, 2021 06:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MB

Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen are joined by Ina Rothe who explains the twists and turns of using Germany's Company Register (referred to as the Transparency Register) as part of the KYC process.  Did you know that Germany has more than one register or that the information you want might be spread across several different registers? Or how about needing to pay to get access to some KYC information and the various exemptions that allow some legal entities to provide nothing at all? If you work ...

Ina Rothe, Managing Director and Founder, Two Towers Consulting (KYC and Germany's Transparency Register)

August 11, 2021 06:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MB

Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen are joined by Ina Rothe who explains the twists and turns of using Germany's Company Register (referred to as the Transparency Register) as part of the KYC process.  Did you know that Germany has more than one register or that the information you want might be spread across several different registers? Or how about needing to pay to get access to some KYC information and the various exemptions that allow some legal entities to provide nothing at all? If you work ...

Jane Jee, Chair Kompli-Global Limited and Chair Project Financial Crime, Emerging Payments Association (UK)

July 31, 2021 14:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MB

Jane Jee, Chair Kompli-Global Limited and Chair Project Financial Crime, Emerging Payments Association (UK) talks to Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen about her involvement in the pre-consultation in her role with the Emerging Payments Association to urge the UK Government to engage more with RegTechs as part of their planned review of the Money Laundering Regulations and the plans in the UK for its well known corporate registry - Companies House. Jane shares the story of Kompli's evolution of it...

Jane Jee, Chair Kompli-Global Limited and Chair Project Financial Crime, Emerging Payments Association (UK)

July 31, 2021 14:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MB

Jane Jee, Chair Kompli-Global Limited and Chair Project Financial Crime, Emerging Payments Association (UK) talks to Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen about her involvement in the pre-consultation in her role with the Emerging Payments Association to urge the UK Government to engage more with RegTechs as part of their planned review of the Money Laundering Regulations and the plans in the UK for its well known corporate registry - Companies House. Jane shares the story of Kompli's evolution of it...

Financial Crime - Compliance & Change: Alistair Catto, Managing Director, Beyond (United Kingdom) - Part 2 of 2

May 23, 2021 14:00 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MB

Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen are joined again by Al Catto, Managing Director of Beyond, to discuss all things change related when it comes to AML/CFT compliance programs. We start Part 2 by discussing the way in which FinTech's approach change and its impact on key AML projects; the importance of test planning to make sure the change you want has the intended impact,  and the politics involved in major change initiatives. We also explore the risk of being too inflexible when it comes to your...

Financial Crime - Compliance & Change: Alistair Catto, Managing Director, Beyond (United Kingdom) - Part 2 of 2

May 23, 2021 14:00 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MB

Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen are joined again by Al Catto, Managing Director of Beyond, to discuss all things change related when it comes to AML/CFT compliance programs. We start Part 2 by discussing the way in which FinTech's approach change and its impact on key AML projects; the importance of test planning to make sure the change you want has the intended impact,  and the politics involved in major change initiatives. We also explore the risk of being too inflexible when it comes to your...

Financial Crime - Compliance & Change: Alistair Catto, Managing Director, Beyond (United Kingdom)

May 20, 2021 18:00 - 17 minutes - 11.3 MB

Ch-ch ch-ch changes! Al Catto joins Sam Sheen and Marie Lundberg to talk about his company, Beyond and their speciality - change transformation involving AML/CFT programmes.  Turning around failed RegTech or even onboarding processes is no easy task. Al shares his insights on the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to successfully implementing a transformation project.  Want faster KYC? Streamlined CDD onboarding? Will KYC RegTech solve the cost of compliance every time?  And where does...

Financial Crime Innovators: David Christie, Chairman, Bleckwen (Paris) (recorded on 6 May 2021)

May 19, 2021 18:00 - 20 minutes - 14.5 MB

David Christie, Chairman of Bleckwen, joins Marie and Sam to chat about the amazing world of behaviour detection and how Bleckwen has harnessed machine learning to better detect fraudulent and suspicious behaviour. With a name linked to a "truth serum", Bleckwen has been involved in some "deep truth" investigations dealing with better detection of complex fraud such as PPP fraud, where it is a challenge for banks with larger legacy systems. Credit origination fraud, synthetic ID fraud, and o...

Financial Crime Fighters: Cracking the Code of Free Trade Zones: Aamir Hanif, MLRO Stripe (United Kingdom)

May 15, 2021 16:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MB

Sam Sheen and Marie Lundberg are joined by Aamir Hanif, a globe-trotting financial crime compliance expert, to talk about all things related to free ports and free trade zones.  Having been identified as having an elevated risk for financial crime, Aamir explains how Free Trade Zone companies are operated, who controls them, accessing KYC information about their UBOs, while Marie raises a good point: Maybe when it comes to free ports, what do we need to do to "know your container".  With rep...

Financial Crime Fighters: The new US AML Law - Elizabeth Slim, Senior Consultant, Volkov Law & ACAMS Co-Chair, Southern California Chapter (USA) Part 1

May 09, 2021 10:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MB

Elizabeth Slim joins Sam Sheen and Marie Lundberg to chat about the Anti-Money Laundering Act 2020 (AMLA) and how this significant reform will impact areas such as Beneficial Ownership rules, FinCen's planned review of the art market from an AML perspective and whether overseas businesses with subsidiaries in the US need to comply with these requirements. They also consider the not-so-simple UBO rules, when companies must register their owners and the many exemptions offered under the AMLA A...

Financial Crime Fighters: The New US AML Law - Elizabeth Slim, Senior Consultant, Volkov Law & ACAMS Co-Chair, Southern California Chapter (USA) Part 2

May 09, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MB

Elizabeth Slim joins Sam Sheen and Marie Lundberg for part 2 to chat about the Anti-Money Laundering Act 2020 (AMLA) and how this significant reform will impact areas such as new protections for corporate whistleblowers that now includes MLROs, auditors or even an attorney, along with the upping of the payments made to them. They also consider whether an overseas staff member is protected under the AMLA if they blow the whistle on financial crime in their sister company in the US, an update ...

Financial Crime Fighters - Sanctions: Eric Sohn, Mr Watchlist Host and Dow Jones SME (United States)

May 05, 2021 01:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MB

Eric Sohn joins Marie and Sam to talk about some recent decisions and fines imposed by the US sanctions regulator, OFAC, and their possible implications for firms and how they conduct sanction KYC and screening. This is a must listen to episode as Eric and Marie share their practical advice the different ways professionals can approach their list management practices, how they conduct sanctions KYC and what it means to take a risk-based approach. 

Financial Crime Innovation: KYC RegTech and IPA: Wayne Johnson, Co-Founder and CEO Encompass (recording on 1 April 2021)

April 07, 2021 17:00 - 16 minutes - 11.2 MB

Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen chat with Encompass Co-Founder and CEO Wayne Johnson currently in Australia, to chat about the goal of achieving a single digital risk profile of a customer, as part of a tech-enable financial crime prevention programme.  Wayne explains the concept of "Intelligence Process Automation" or IPA, and how it's intended to make the onboarding process of customers more efficient and effective, while still detecting bad actors.  And no chat about KYC would be complete wi...

Financial Crime Regulation: Sanctions - Iran & the EU Blocking Regulations - George Voloshin, Aperio Intelligence

April 07, 2021 16:00 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MB

Sam Sheen and Marie Lundberg welcome George Voloshin back to the podcast, where they look at the European regulations that prevent businesses from refusing business on the grounds of needing to comply with the USA sanctions regulations related to Iran.  George and the hosts look at court decisions where companies have been challenged by customers who've refused services or ended business relationships - and whether the reasons they gave were considered compliant with the EU Blocking Regulati...

Financial Crime Regulation: Part 3 - Crowdfunding and Fraud - Opinion on Financial Crime Risks in the European Union

March 15, 2021 15:00 - 18 minutes - 11.2 MB

In Part 3 of this series, Sam and Marie discuss the concerns that EU AML regulators continue to have around crowdfunding platforms - both as customers of financial institutions and as businesses in their own right.  They also consider the EBA's assessment of fraud and related financial crime risks that have arisen in 2020 during the COVID pandemic - what should firms have been doing to mitigate those risks? What should regulators have been doing to keep supervising, despite lockdowns 1 -2 an...

Financial Crime Regulation: Part 4 - Remote Onboarding and Brexit - Opinion on Financial Crime Risks in the European Union

March 15, 2021 15:00 - 7 minutes - 4.69 MB

In the final part of the series, Marie and Sam discuss how remote onboarding has proven to be an essential lifeline for many businesses during the pandemic.  However, the European Banking Authority's Opinion reflects that AML regulators in the EU are still concerned that businesses may not be onboarding customers in a way that effectively mitigates those classic "non face to face" financial crime risks. Hear what their proposal to address this is - and of course, no opinion would be complete...

Financial Crime Regulation: Part 2 - FinTechs and Terrorist Financing- Opinion on Financial Crime Risks in the European Union

March 15, 2021 15:00 - 12 minutes - 8.59 MB

Continuing with a detailed review of the European Banking Authority's Opinion on the Financial Crime Risks facing financial services businesses in the EU, Sam and Marie discuss how FinTechs are still considered to pose an elevated financial crime risks in the EU, concerns around the use of remote onboarding and other RegTech and why the terrorist financing risks are not seen to have changed since 2019 and what's needed to address it. Sam and Marie also take a quick peak at what the newly rev...

Financial Crime Regulation: Part 1 - Virtual Currencies - Opinion on Financial Crime Risks in the European Union

March 15, 2021 14:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MB

After a short hiatus, Sam and Marie return and kick off 2021 with a detailed review of the European Banking Authority's Opinion on the Financial Crime Risks facing financial services businesses in the EU. Looking at the updated to the EBA's findings first published in 2019, Sam and Marie explain the methodology applied in assessing various financial crime risks and the measures the EBA proposes will help to mitigate them. Part 1 of this series looks at the EBA's assessment of the Cryptocurre...

Financial Crime Innovators: Araliya Samme, Head of Financial Crime, Featurespace (UK)

November 08, 2020 17:00 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MB

Marie and Sam chat with Araliya Samme about her role at RegTech firm, Featurespace, the detection of unusual behaviour using machine learning as part of financial crime investigations to better detect and report suspicious activity,  How behavioural analytics work in practice and why the 'one size fits all' approach to compliance monitoring is quickly becoming obsolete.  They also explore the crime trends seen during the COVID crisis and how the use of money mules has been on the increase, w...

Financial Crime Innovators: AI and Fraud Detection - Gavin Keeley, CEO Search 365 (Queensland, Australia)

November 04, 2020 08:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MB

Gavin Keeley, CEO of  Search 365 in Queensland, Australia joins  Marie and Sam to chat about his company's search engine technology and his partnership with Basis Technology, Gavin's global work in the regulated insurance sector and how fraud risks have arisen for that sector during the COVID crisis and a solution formulated for one insurer when 980 000 Australians were made redundant, triggering a mass of insurance and all of their support centres  were unstaffed due to COVD restrictions. H...

Financial Crime Innovators - Biometrics: Vincent White and John Lloyd, FacePoint (UK/ USA)

October 18, 2020 14:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MB

Marie and Sam chat with Vincent and John from Facepoint about identity fraud concerns including identity impersonation versus identity theft, tactics used by fraudsters to conceal their identity, data and risks related to demographic data discrimination, and how biometric technology is being used to detect and disrupt fraudsters and other illicit actors.

Female Crime Fighters: Elizabeth Slim, Senior Consultant, Volkov Law & ACAMS Co-Chair, Southern California Chapter (USA)

October 18, 2020 14:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MB

Elizabeth Slim joins Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen to chat about the recent FinCen Guidance on politically exposed persons ("PEPs")  in the USA and how it differs from similar regulations in the UK, her work in founding her local ACAMS Chapter. Elizabeth chats about the PEPs identified in the FinCen leaks, the changes to PEP lists anticipated following the US election and what financial institutions need to do now to stay ahead of the game.

Financial Crime Case Studies: FinCen Leaks - Now What? Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen (October 2020)

October 07, 2020 17:00 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MB

Just like the recent raining weather, yet more leaks have taken place in the financial crime community.  Sam Sheen interviews Marie Lundberg on how financial institutions have and should respond when data leaks occur, lessons learnt from the 2016 Panama Papers leaks and what Marie would look for as an internal auditor if she was assessing how your firm dealth with this most recent piece of adverse media.  Is there a silver lining on this otherwise rainy day piece of news?  Listen in to find ...

Financial Crime Fighters - Investigations: Dr Annalise Vineer, Subject Matter Expert (UK)

October 07, 2020 17:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MB

Dr Annalise Vineer joins Sam Sheen and Marie Lundberg for a chat about the thorny issue of financial crime investigations - are banks hitting the mark? What causes their investigations to "fail"? Why are relationship managers so critical to an effective investigation? Annalise also explains why knowing how and what to ask bank personnel AND customers is not a skill to be taken for granted and what can be done to make those SARs more useful for law enforcement.

Financial Crime Innovation: Adverse Media Screening - Ben McKee, Basis Technology (Northampton, UK)

September 30, 2020 17:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MB

Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen chat with Ben McKee about why natural language processing is the "secret sauce" behind effective adverse media screening as part of a good financial crime compliance programme,"googling" for bad news, using artificial intelligence to search from adverse media semantic meaning to better pinpoint relevant adverse media, lessons learnt from the 1MDB case, a recent complex COVID fraud case involving the use of social media promotion, real life financial crime cases d...

Financial Crime Innovation: Adverse Media Screening - Ben McKee, Basis Technologies (Northampton, UK)

September 30, 2020 17:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MB

Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen chat with Ben McKee about why natural language processing is the "secret sauce" behind effective adverse media screening as part of a good financial crime compliance programme,"googling" for bad news, using artificial intelligence to search from adverse media semantic meaning to better pinpoint relevant adverse media, lessons learnt from the 1MDB case, a recent complex COVID fraud case involving the use of social media promotion, real life financial crime cases d...

AML Innovation - Transaction Monitoring: Francisco Mainez, Head of Data and Analytics, Business Financial Crime Risk, HSBC (London, September 2020)

September 19, 2020 12:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MB

Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen chat with Francisco Mainez, on his career transition from military intelligence to financial services technology, the role of Data Analytics in a financial institution and how it supports financial crime investigations, moving towards a more effective transaction monitoring methodology by moving from a rules-based approach to one based on machine-learning, whether "one size fits all" approach to transaction monitoring rules works for firms with a global reach, mi...

AML Innovators: Computational linguistics, sematic similarities and name / text screening - Chris Brown, VP International Basis Technology (UK)

September 13, 2020 15:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MB

Chris Brown, VP International Basis Technology chats with Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen about his career move from professional footballer to financial crime technology innovation, the age old problem of screening customer names, transliteration and the Boston Bombers, links between PEPs and their family members, use of computational linguistics, the challenges of screening using phonetics alone, shedding the "black box" approach as a technology provider, and and criminals creative use of lex...

AML Innovators: Computational linguistics, semantic similarities and name / text screening - Chris Brown, VP International Basis Technology (UK)

September 13, 2020 15:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MB

Chris Brown, VP International Basis Technology chats with Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen about his career move from professional footballer to financial crime technology innovation, the age old problem of screening customer names, transliteration and the Boston Bombers, links between PEPs and their family members, use of computational linguistics, the challenges of screening using phonetics alone, shedding the "black box" approach as a technology provider, and and criminals creative use of lex...

AML Innovators: KYC, TM and Behavioural AI - Gudmundur Kristjansson & Justin Bercich, Lucinity (Reykjavík, Iceland) Recorded on 3 July 2020)

July 08, 2020 17:00 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MB

Gudmundur Kristjansson, Founder and CEO of Lucinity and its Principal Data Scientist Justin Bercich chat with Sam Sheen and Marie Lundberg about their company's offering of "Human AI", and how its behavioural analytics technology is helping analysts to better detect possible financial crime activity, beyond traditional transaction monitoring techniques. The group chat about the hosts beloved topics - data, privacy - and learn about Lucinity's use of homomorphic encryption, while sharing a st...

Gudmundur Kristjansson & Justin Bercich, Lucinity (Reykjavík, Iceland) Recorded on 3 July 2020)

July 08, 2020 17:00 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MB

Gudmundur Kristjansson, Founder and CEO of Lucinity and its Principal Data Scientist Justin Bercich chat with Sam Sheen and Marie Lundberg about their company's offering of "Human AI", and how its behavioural analytics technology is helping analysts to better detect possible financial crime activity, beyond traditional transaction monitoring techniques. The group chat about the hosts beloved topics - data, privacy - and learn about Lucinity's use of homomorphic encryption, while sharing a st...

Chris Taggart, CEO and CO-Founder, OpenCorporates (UK, recorded on 26 June 2020)

July 01, 2020 18:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MB

Chris Taggart, CEO and Co-Founder, OpenCorporates joins Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen for a chat about the work of OpenCorporates, the biggest open company database in the world, their recent report " EU Company Data: State of the Union 2020 How poor access to company data is undermining the European Union", the importance of data access and aggregation, investigation of nefarious actors hiding behind corporate structures, the importance of transparency and public access to deterring the misu...

KYC, CDD and Open Source Data - Chris Taggart, CEO and CO-Founder, OpenCorporates (UK, recorded on 26 June 2020)

July 01, 2020 18:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MB

Chris Taggart, CEO and Co-Founder, OpenCorporates joins Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen for a chat about the work of OpenCorporates, the biggest open company database in the world, their recent report " EU Company Data: State of the Union 2020 How poor access to company data is undermining the European Union", the importance of data access and aggregation, investigation of nefarious actors hiding behind corporate structures, the importance of transparency and public access to deterring the misu...

AML Innovators: KYC, Screening, Investigations and Biometrics - Vincent White, UK Director, Facepoint (United Kingdom, recorded on 15 June 2020)

June 24, 2020 17:00 - 12 minutes - 8.35 MB

Vincent White, UK Director, Facepoint chats with Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen about the use of biometrics and facial recognition technology for KYC and in the detection of illicit actors; the future of biometrics as a component of customer due diligence, its use in improving sanction screening results and screening in general, GDPR and privacy considerations and whether make-up, tattoos or plastic surgery can be used to confound biometric matching.

Vincent White, UK Director, Facepoint (United Kingdom, recorded on 15 June 2020)

June 24, 2020 17:00 - 12 minutes - 8.35 MB

Vincent White, UK Director, Facepoint chats with Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen about the use of biometrics and facial recognition technology for KYC and in the detection of illicit actors; the future of biometrics as a component of customer due diligence, its use in improving sanction screening results and screening in general, GDPR and privacy considerations and whether make-up, tattoos or plastic surgery can be used to confound biometric matching.

AML Innovators: Continuous KYC and Data Aggregation - David Buxton - Part II CEO and Founder, Arachnys

June 21, 2020 16:00 - 12 minutes - 8.89 MB

Marie and Sam continue their discussion with David about how to find CDD or adverse media about an "invisible" or "disappearing" clients, the potential for continuous KYC, the use of recall with trade data to generate risk signals across large global populations to detect trade-related financial crime; whether to Google or not to Google search for KYC purposes and focusing on the real problem to solve in order to make data-driven decisions. And why Carrie Mathison from Homeland (tv character...

David Buxton - Part II CEO and Founder, Arachnys

June 21, 2020 16:00 - 12 minutes - 8.89 MB

Marie and Sam continue their discussion with David about how to find CDD or adverse media about an "invisible" or "disappearing" clients, the potential for continuous KYC, the use of recall with trade data to generate risk signals across large global populations to detect trade-related financial crime; whether to Google or not to Google search for KYC purposes and focusing on the real problem to solve in order to make data-driven decisions. And why Carrie Mathison from Homeland (tv character...

Eric Wagner - Part II- Head of Financial Crime, Erste Group (Austria, recorded on 12 June 2020)

June 21, 2020 15:00 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MB

Part II of Sam Sheen and Marie Lundberg's discussion with Eric Wagner, Head of Financial Crime, Erste Group where they review the changes that the Working Group have proposed to eIDAS and EU AML regulations to allow for greater reliance by financial institutions on eKYC, the absence - and importance - of a single standard on eKYC - and the many different groups working separately on their own set of standards and why cracking the problem of KYC in Europe is fundamental to its future as a dig...

eKYC, Digital Identity and eIDAS - Eric Wagner - Part II- Head of Financial Crime, Erste Group (Austria, recorded on 12 June 2020)

June 21, 2020 15:00 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MB

Part II of Sam Sheen and Marie Lundberg's discussion with Eric Wagner, Head of Financial Crime, Erste Group where they review the changes that the Working Group have proposed to eIDAS and EU AML regulations to allow for greater reliance by financial institutions on eKYC, the absence - and importance - of a single standard on eKYC - and the many different groups working separately on their own set of standards and why cracking the problem of KYC in Europe is fundamental to its future as a dig...

KYC and Onboarding: Charlie Roberts, Head of UK and EU, IDNow (the Wirrall, England, recorded on 15 June 2020)

June 21, 2020 14:00 - 12 minutes - 7.52 MB

Charlie Roberts, Head of UK and EU, IDNow (the Wirrall,  England, joins Sam Sheen and Marie Lundberg to chat about this company's eKYC technology and the use of live video verification across the Benelux region and beyond, detecting possible duress by IDNow's agents to mitigate the risk of illicit actors pressuring innocent individuals to open accounts on their behalf and why it's best not to include your emotional support alpaca when applying for an online account.

Charlie Roberts, Head of UK and EU, IDNow (the Wirrall, England, recorded on 15 June 2020)

June 21, 2020 14:00 - 12 minutes - 7.52 MB

Charlie Roberts, Head of UK and EU, IDNow (the Wirrall,  England, joins Sam Sheen and Marie Lundberg to chat about this company's eKYC technology and the use of live video verification across the Benelux region and beyond, detecting possible duress by IDNow's agents to mitigate the risk of illicit actors pressuring innocent individuals to open accounts on their behalf and why it's best not to include your emotional support alpaca when applying for an online account.

Tax Evasion & AML KYC - Detecting Financial Crime: Mark Gilmartin, Senior Tax Advisor, Efficient Frontiers International Limited (Scotland, UK recorded on 17 June 2020)

June 17, 2020 17:00 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MB

Mark Gilmartin, Senior Tax Advisor, Efficient Frontiers International Limited chats with Sam Sheen about the connection between AML KYC and tax KYC in relation to legal entities and shares some interesting case studies illustrating the tactics used by different actors to conceal their identity for tax purposes while also laundering the proceeds of crime. 

Mark Gilmartin, Senior Tax Advisor, Efficient Frontiers International Limited (Scotland, UK recorded on 17 June 2020)

June 17, 2020 17:00 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MB

Mark Gilmartin, Senior Tax Advisor, Efficient Frontiers International Limited chats with Sam Sheen about the connection between AML KYC and tax KYC in relation to legal entities and shares some interesting case studies illustrating the tactics used by different actors to conceal their identity for tax purposes while also laundering the proceeds of crime. 

Eric Wagner, Head of Group Financial Crime, Erste Group (Austria, Recorded on 12 June 2020)

June 17, 2020 15:00 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MB

Eric Wagner, Head of Group Financial Crime, Erste Group talks with Sam Sheen and Marie Lundberg about his role as rapporteur of the European Commission Working Group on eKYC and the possible expansion of the eIDAS programme for use by the private sector for KYC in the future. Eric shares his insights on the key changes needed to allow financial institutions to rely on electronic ID verification across the EU and why the best route to achieving regulatory change is pure logic. 

eKYC, Digital Identity and eIDAS - Eric Wagner, Head of Group Financial Crime, Erste Group (Austria, Recorded on 12 June 2020)

June 17, 2020 15:00 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MB

Eric Wagner, Head of Group Financial Crime, Erste Group talks with Sam Sheen and Marie Lundberg about his role as rapporteur of the European Commission Working Group on eKYC and the possible expansion of the eIDAS programme for use by the private sector for KYC in the future. Eric shares his insights on the key changes needed to allow financial institutions to rely on electronic ID verification across the EU and why the best route to achieving regulatory change is pure logic. 

AML Innovators: Open Source Data, Aggregation and CDD - David Buxton, CEO and Founder, Arachnys Information Services Limited - Part I (UK, recorded on 4 June 2020)

June 14, 2020 15:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MB

David Buxton, CEO and Founder, Arachnys Information Services Limited chats with Marie Lundberg and Samantha Sheen in Part I of his podcast about the importance of data in detecting and preventing financial crime, single source of truth approach for data aggregation, the spectrum of data sources relevant for financial crime prevention, desktop RPAs and bots, best practices for leveraging open source data, the challenges in relation to sanction lists and other structured data and the essential...

AML Innovators: Open Source Data, Aggregation and CDD - David Buxton, CEO and Founder, Arachnys Information Services Limited - Part I (UK, recorded on 4 June 2020)

June 14, 2020 15:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MB

David Buxton, CEO and Founder, Arachnys Information Services Limited chats with Marie Lundberg and Samantha Sheen in Part I of his podcast about the importance of data in detecting and preventing financial crime, single source of truth approach for data aggregation, the spectrum of data sources relevant for financial crime prevention, desktop RPAs and bots, best practices for leveraging open source data, the challenges in relation to sanction lists and other structured data and the essential...

AML Collaboration: Detection and Disruption of Financial Crime - Nick Maxwell, Head of FFIS research partnership between the RUSI Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies and NJM Research (UK, recorded on 9 June 2020)

June 14, 2020 15:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MB

Nick Maxwell, Head of FFIS research partnership between the RUSI Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies and NJM Research chats with Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen about public -private partnerships establishing and developing across the globe to exchange valuable information for the detection and prevention of financial crime, both at the national level and across jurisdiction.  Nick shares his research into the important elements for the successful collaboration between the public and ...

David Buxton, CEO and Founder, Arachnys Information Services Limited - Part I (UK, recorded on 4 June 2020)

June 14, 2020 15:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MB

David Buxton, CEO and Founder, Arachnys Information Services Limited chats with Marie Lundberg and Samantha Sheen in Part I of his podcast about the importance of data in detecting and preventing financial crime, single source of truth approach for data aggregation, the spectrum of data sources relevant for financial crime prevention, desktop RPAs and bots, best practices for leveraging open source data, the challenges in relation to sanction lists and other structured data and the essential...

Nick Maxwell, Head of FFIS research partnership between the RUSI Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies and NJM Research (UK, recorded on 9 June 2020)

June 14, 2020 15:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MB

Nick Maxwell, Head of FFIS research partnership between the RUSI Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies and NJM Research chats with Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen about public -private partnerships establishing and developing across the globe to exchange valuable information for the detection and prevention of financial crime, both at the national level and across jurisdiction.  Nick shares his research into the important elements for the successful collaboration between the public and ...