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 look at the thorny issue of Management Information. What is it and what’s it for.
Simple questions you might think, but often overlooked.
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In this episode we bring you an update about regulatory expectations in respect of cash deposits.
Along with a brief history of the UK’s Post Office dating back to the 17th century and the somewhat surprising news that it is still possible to make unlimited daily cash deposits of up to £20,000 with no form of identification.
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In the first episode of season 10, we turn our attention to an extraordinary story about online retail sales, China, VAT and HMRC.
Despite all the apparent jargon, it is just an everyday tale of 11,000 companies all suddenly deciding to register to a private address where the owner had never heard of them.
Which didn’t stop him being sent £500,000 in debt enforcement letters.
And, in a first for The Dark Money Files, this podcast is n...
In the second part of our look at multiple choice tests we talk about how some fairly basic statistical analysis can help to validate their effectiveness.
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Does your assessment programme correlate to individual performance?
And if not, why not?
Part one of a journey on the road to cognition.
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In this episode we talk about using our (metaphorical) little yellow bird as a predictor of the overall effectiveness (or lack of it) of your anti-financial crime framework.
Would your KYC fall off its perch at the first whiff of trouble?
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In this episode we work through three of the smaller regulatory actions from last year which nevertheless contain nuggets of gold, successfully panned by Ray.
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In something of a departure from our normal content, we review the passage of the Economic Crime and Corporate Reform Bill through the UK parliamentary system and use the opportunity to explain in more detail just how the scrutiny and passing of legislation works in practice.
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In this episode we weave together crypto, courts and controversy when Sam Bankman Fried meets the Court of Justice of the European Union and a millionaire underwear Baroness.
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It’s been a little while so we thought we’d do a bit of a catch up on some recent publications from Wolfsberg, the FATF and the Finnish FSA.
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In our final part of our look at fraud, we explain, in general terms, current approaches to how best to compensate the victims and deny the fraudsters (as well as explaining briefly, why the gap since the last episode).
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We interrupt our suite of podcasts on fraud to bring you a special episode relating to the human cost of fake company incorporations.
Working with various different media outlets, we’ve helped bring to light some of the stories relating to people who unwittingly fall foul of fake company incorporators.
Listen, for example, to this recent episode of BBCs You and Yours:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0019z2g
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In this second part of our series on fraud we delve into some of the different types of fraud.
We proffer some “mildly salacious” examples, along with others which are rather more serious.
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In this pun laden episode, we start to delve into the world of fraud. More to follow…
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The UK regulator, in common with most regulators around the world, is keen to understand the role that synthetic data might play, alongside Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
It has made a call for input which closes on 22 June.
In this episode we review the current state of play, the uses for synthetic data and why contributing to this call is so important.
Link to the call: https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/call-for-inp...
In this episode we tackle the thorny issue of tax avoidance, aggressive tax avoidance and tax evasion. We also take a closer look at one of the schemes which falls somewhere on that spectrum: mini-umbrella companies.
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In this episode we look at all things digital and how it is changing the landscape of authentication whilst making KYC more dynamic.
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To conclude this trilogy of podcasts looking at the world from the money launderers point of view, Ray and Graham take a deep dive into trade-based money laundering and trade finance.
They revisit the research conducted by John Zdanowicz – copy of the report referred to can be found here.
$5000 tweezers and enriched uranium at $15/kg make for a lively episode!
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In this second part of Graham & Ray’s trip to the dark side, and with almost prescient timing, they explain how to set up a global money laundering machine.
Please don’t try this at home.
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Having spent three years and 93 episodes reporting from the side of the great and the good, Ray and Graham move the focus to the view from the dark side.
And it sounds like they had an inordinate amount of fun doing so!
Two more parts to follow!
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