The Dark Money Files
A series of podcasts which explain to a non-technical audience how "Dark Money" (e.g. money laundering, corruption, bribery, tax evasion) enters the financial system and infects everything it touches.
Episodes
In this episode, we chat about a recently published report by Transparency International (see: https://www.transparency.org.uk/news/trust-issues-tackling-final-frontier-secret-property-ownership) and how it impacts on our ability to identify the true ownership of real estate in the UK (and elsewhere).
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We bring you our latest deep dive into the world of crazy company incorporations and weird worldwide coincidences by way of North London, New Zealand and a much loved British sit-com.
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SARs!
Search and rescue services?
Subject access requests?
Sudden acute respiratory syndrome?
No - suspicious activity reports! That's what we are talking about this time. And there's a lot more to them than you might think.
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In this episode we look at the FCA's latest thematic review of the National Fraud Database and money mule account detection tools and summarise what we think firms can take from it and what actions they might consider taking in response.
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"...Because every day we pay the price, we’re the living sacrifice"
Taking inspiration from Bob Marley (sorry about the pun) we've done a little episode about scams and scammers (and some hints on how to spot them).
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In this episode we look at some of the links between three recent enforcement actions.
We try to avoid the knee jerk reactions, and think a bit deeper about them.
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We turn our attention to the requirement to train relevant staff on all matters anti-financial crime.
And if you're planning on training - your training needs a plan!
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In this episode we turn our attention to the tricky subject of outsourcing. We were going to get someone else to do it for us but we couldn't find a suitable candidate. :)
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Hot spots and intelligence 2
In this second episode we look more broadly at the genesis of intelligence led policing, how it works and how compelling it is to draw parallels with our world of anti-financial crime.
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In this episode we report on a recent visit to the European Crime Analysis conference in Copenhagen and draw parallels between the work of law enforcement and those working in compliance.
Links referred to in the episode:
Hot spot policing
Wolfsberg Group Statement on Effective Monitoring for Suspicious Activity
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In this episode we explore some of the many different ways in which corporate entities can be used to engage in financial crime – although, as far as we are aware, they aren’t much use in removing stones from horse’s hooves.
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We dive into the details of OCGs and how they use corporate networks to launder their ill-gotten gains - and the clues they leave behind.
And, rather appropriately, we also introduce the world to our new sponsor: https://riskalert247.com/
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In this episode we turn our attention to the thorny subject of proliferation financing and provide a basic explainer of what it's about and why it's important.
The documents referred to in the episode can be accessed via the links below:
FATF Guidance on PF risk assessment | https://bit.ly/4a9FKTM
UK National Risk Assessment of PF | https://bit.ly/3JP2Lk7
| RUSI paper on PF in banking | https:...
With a forthcoming new requirement which makes it mandatory for UK payment service providers (PSPs) to reimburse the victims of some types of fraud, we look at the rules and how they are likely to play out.
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Taking a slightly different direction from our normal content, we step back and look how the landscape of crime has changed over the years, and how in the process it has become democratised.
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Following the news that nearly 800 restaurants in the UK have been cloned over the last few weeks, we thought we’d bring you the story behind the story.
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It’s over to EU
After a succession of episodes looking at the UK financial crime landscape, we shift our focus over the channel to Europe and the proposed changes to EU AML legislation.
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Following some recent banking shenanigans, there’s been a rapidly introduced change in the UK law relating to PEPs.
We think it needs to be put into a global context.
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In this second part of our review of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act, we look at the provisions relating to failing to prevent fraud, crypto assets, information sharing and Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs).
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Following the enactment of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act, reform is on the way to Companies House.
But what does it look like and when will it happen?
Here's our initial overview.
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