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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.

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Episode 3 - The Billion Dollar Shuffle

Episode 3 - The Billion Dollar Shuffle

If you really want to understand why this was such a noteworthy failure of financial crime controls, this is the episode... Read more

20 Jan 2019

28mins

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The Deutsche Bank Story: Part One - The Mirror Trades

The Deutsche Bank Story: Part One - The Mirror Trades

Given its refusal to stay out of the news, we thought it was about time to turn our attention to Deutsche Bank. In an ex... Read more

21 Jul 2019

25mins

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The Business Wide Risk Assessment

The Business Wide Risk Assessment

In this last episode of season 3 we turn our attention to conducting the business (or enterprise) wide risk assessment. ... Read more

9 Jan 2020

20mins

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Assessing Customer Risk #2 - Channel, Entity, Industry and Products

Assessing Customer Risk #2 - Channel, Entity, Industry and Products

In this second part of assessing customer risk, we look at the impact of delivery channel, products, entity type and ind... Read more

24 Dec 2019

15mins

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Episode 4 - The Billion Dollar Hold

Episode 4 - The Billion Dollar Hold

In this episode we look at a specific set of transactions within Danske Estonia - those emanating from accounts which ar... Read more

27 Jan 2019

20mins

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The EU Money Laundering Report

The EU Money Laundering Report

In this first episode of season three we give our listeners an overview of the report to the EU Parliament and Commissio... Read more

9 Sep 2019

22mins

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It's time for a PEP talk!

It's time for a PEP talk!

In this episode we talk all things PEP. We cover how to define one, what constitutes a relative or close associate, what... Read more

11 Nov 2019

21mins

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The Financial Crime Guide

The Financial Crime Guide

In this special episode to launch Season 4 we look at the newly revamped FCA - Financial Crime Guide and decide that it ... Read more

25 Jan 2020

16mins

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Special Episode 2 - The Troika Laundromat

Special Episode 2 - The Troika Laundromat

The second of our special episodes looking this time at the OCCRPs newly released data dubbed "The Troika Laundromat". R... Read more

10 Mar 2019

18mins

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Episode 7 - The Suspicious Activity Report (Part 2)

Episode 7 - The Suspicious Activity Report (Part 2)

In this jaw-dropping episode we look under the bonnet at the situation in Estonia just after Danske had bought Sampo.It ... Read more

3 Mar 2019

25mins

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Laundromats and Legal Entities - part one: Limited Companies

Laundromats and Legal Entities - part one: Limited Companies

We begin our analysis of how legal entities, in locations which have transparent corporate registers can still be used t... Read more

28 Apr 2019

22mins

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The world of the MLRO

The world of the MLRO

In this episode we take a long hard look at the reporting requirements and all the other responsibilities placed on the ... Read more

30 Sep 2019

27mins

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The highs and lows of correspondent banking

The highs and lows of correspondent banking

In this episode we look at the recent raid on Deutsche Bank in connection with the Danske Bank story, the role of corres... Read more

7 Oct 2019

18mins

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Episode 10 - The Whistleblower, the UK and the Russian connections

Episode 10 - The Whistleblower, the UK and the Russian connections

In a sensational final look at the Danske Bank affair, we analyse the whistleblower report and definitively link it to a... Read more

7 Apr 2019

21mins

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Special Episode 1 - The Ousting of Danske and the Arrival of Swedbank

Special Episode 1 - The Ousting of Danske and the Arrival of Swedbank

Following an extraordinary week of developments which saw the removal of Danske from Estonia, its voluntary departure fr... Read more

23 Feb 2019

20mins

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Ali Moulaye: The man, the myth and the method

Ali Moulaye: The man, the myth and the method

In this first episode of season 2 we discuss Ali Moulaye, the man whose signature is at the base of Companies House acco... Read more

22 Apr 2019

21mins

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Assessing Customer Risk #1 - Geography

Assessing Customer Risk #1 - Geography

This week, after a brief review of the latest OCCRP stories (called #29leaks) we turn our attention to the thorny issue ... Read more

14 Dec 2019

19mins

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SEB and its Baltic operations - a special report

SEB and its Baltic operations - a special report

We take a close look at events reported by SVT (Swedish Television) in relation to SEB's non-resident banking in the Bal... Read more

4 Dec 2019

20mins

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Laundromats and Legal Entities - part two: Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs)

Laundromats and Legal Entities - part two: Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs)

In an extended episode, we delve into the intricacies of UK LLPs and, using real examples, explain how the rules allow t... Read more

6 May 2019

25mins

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The feeling's mutual - The Financial Action Task Force and the Mutual Evaluation Report

The feeling's mutual - The Financial Action Task Force and the Mutual Evaluation Report

This week, in honour of the first 2019 Plenary meeting of the FATF we look at the birth of the organisation in Paris in ... Read more

13 Oct 2019

17mins

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