The Dark Money Files
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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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Policing the corporate landscape - the role of The Insolvency Service
The UK Insolvency Service does a lot more than just oversee insolvencies and, in a recently published five year strategy document, they outlined some...
The highs (and lows) of PEP classifications
The FCA recently published new guidance specifically in relation to UK PEPs which we decided needed a closer look. So we did!
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Where there's a will...
In this episode we explain how we supported a major BBC investigation into a Hungarian organised crime group which was systematically forging wills an...
Transparency and trust issues: the secret life of property
In this episode, we chat about a recently published report by Transparency International (see: https://www.transparency.org.uk/news/trust-issues-tackl...
Trigger warning!
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...
The sharing of suspicion
SARs!
Search and rescue services?
Subject access requests?
Sudden acute respiratory syndrome?
No - suspicious activity reports...
Don't let mules make an ass of your firm
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 w...
We're scamming, we hope you like scamming too...
"...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...
Unheard voices - fine outcomes
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...
Financial Crime Training - Mind the gap!
We turn our attention to the requirement to train relevant staff on all matters anti-financial crime.
And if you're planning on training...
The (out)source code
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 s...
Hot spots and intelligence 2
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 compe...
Hot spots and intelligence
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 enforce...
Are corporate entities the Swiss army knife of financial crime?
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...
Organised Crime - two's company but three's an OCG
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.
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A proliferation explanation conversation
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 i...
It’s payback time! – the new UK regime for mandatory scam reimbursement
With a forthcoming new requirement which makes it mandatory for UK payment service providers (PSPs) to reimburse the victims of some types of fraud, w...
The democratisation of crime
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...
Bar Wars - Attack of the Clones
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 stor...
It's over to EU
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 th...
Are PEPs domestic?
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...
ECCTA Part 2 - SLAPPS, Fraud, Crypto and information sharing
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 frau...
Companies House - it's time to Act
Following the enactment of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act, reform is on the way to Companies House.
But what does it l...
A close shave – Ockam’s razor and plausibility
In this episode we walk the path from certainty to impossibility, via probable, possible and plausible.
A conversation involving wind turbines,...
Ownership, control, or influence? UBOs and further complications
In this second episode devoted to ultimate beneficial ownership, we delve into the world of exchange traded companies and the esoterica that is trusts...
Ownership, control, or influence? It’s time for the UBO question!
In this episode we, somewhat belatedly, begin to tackle the thorny issue of identifying ultimate beneficial ownership.
And we do so by pointing...
A Neidle in a tax scam
In this episode we walk through a recent, in-depth report into probable VAT and employment tax fraud reported on by Dan Neidle of the Tax Policy Assoc...
A view from the Farage side
We couldn't let the recent Farage brouhaha with Coutts go by without some sort of comment.
We've tried to chart a calm course through som...
You find what you look for!
In this episode we ask "What have the dinosaurs ever done for us?"
It turns out, if you ask the right questions, it's quite a lot.
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Bias and noise – how they differ and why it matters
In this episode we take a (hopefully) user-friendly trip down the statistical road and explore some of the common pitfalls that can be encountered in...
MI oh MI What a Wonderful Day
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, bu...
Show me the money!
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 O...
VATs the problem?
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 t...
Investing in testing 2 - Is it in the test?
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 effectiven...
Investing in Testing - why assessment matters: Part 1
Does your assessment programme correlate to individual performance?
And if not, why not?
Part one of a journey on the road to cognition.<...
KYC - The Canary in the Coal Mine
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-fi...
Dr Blake’s casebook – a roundup of stories you may have missed
In this episode we work through three of the smaller regulatory actions from last year which nevertheless contain nuggets of gold, successfully panned...
Can we have the Bill please?
In something of a departure from our normal content, we review the passage of the Economic Crime and Corporate Reform Bill through the UK parliamentar...
Trivia - when three paths meet
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 million...
AOB – recent publications and guidance
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.
Sen...