Episodes
Join RiskScreen CEO and founder, Stephen Platt as he speaks to Major Andrew Fox about the parallels that can be drawn between how the army and the financial services industry handle their processes and how they mitigate risks. About Andrew Fox: Andrew Fox was commissioned in 2007 from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He commanded on operations at every rank from Second Lieutenant to Major. He did three combat tours in Afghanistan between 2007-2010, most notably with the US Army Special...
Published 11/08/21
Join AML Talkshow host and RiskScreen CEO & founder, Stephen Platt and guest, Edmund McCormack, the CEO of Dchained, a crypto-based education and advisory platform, and Managing General Partner of Dchained Capital. Edmund is a tech industry veteran with 15 years of executive experience at leading organizations, such as Apple, MySpace and Teads. Stephen and Edmund discuss topics such as crypto's bad reputation in compliance changing to a full embrace of the sector, the steps for...
Published 09/03/21
Since co-founding the organisation back in 2012, Peter Bainbridge-Clayton has overseen the implementation of kompany’s proprietary global live network, which offers users real-time access to official and audit-proof information for regulated and unregulated industries. He is a true blockchain and AI enthusiast with a varied background in high throughput telecoms and government systems, including leading the redesign and implementation of the UK Government Business Register, Companies...
Published 06/28/21
Since being appointed Chief Executive at British fraud prevention service, Cifas, in May 2018, Mike has actively worked to grow the community of stakeholders sharing data, intelligence and insight in the pursuit of preventing fraud and financial crime. Mike is passionate about Cifas becoming the driving force behind fraud prevention in the UK and with over 30 years’ experience of tackling and preventing fraud across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, he is determined to bring...
Published 05/14/21
Matt Taibbi is an award-winning investigative reporter and one of America’s more recognizable literary voices. The son of a television reporter and a lawyer, Matt grew up admiring Russian writers, which led him to spend most of his early adult life in the former Soviet Union, where he focused on participatory journalism. On his return to the US in 2002, Matt began work as a contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine, where he won the National Magazine Award for commentary. He is best...
Published 12/03/20
Tom Burgis is an investigations correspondent at the Financial Times. He has reported from more than forty countries, won major journalism awards in the US and Asia and been shortlisted for eight others, including twice at the British Press Awards. His critically acclaimed first book, "The Looting Machine", about the modern plundering of Africa, won an Overseas Press Club of America award, and he has just published the highly regarded "Kleptopia, How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World". See...
Published 11/11/20
Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is estimated to be worth around $20bn per year, making it the 4th largest crime on a global level. Many criminal syndicates perceive it to be a low-risk and highly profitable model, and FATF and United for Wildlife Foundation have highlighted the convergence of IWT with narcotics, human trafficking, arms trade and counter-proliferation, and financial threats. IWT also fuels corruption, has serious environmental and biodiversity costs, as well as potentially...
Published 10/23/20
Lawyer George Pearmain is the Director of Financial Crime Strategy for the Government of Jersey. Jersey, as a leading International Finance Centre, places its responsibility to counter financial crime at the top of the jurisdictional agenda, and George works with a team of experts across the Jersey authorities and wider industry stakeholders to ensure that Jersey remains a leading jurisdiction in risk understanding, risk mitigation and continues to innovate in relation to the ongoing global...
Published 10/16/20
For nearly 30 years, Elise Bean worked as an investigator for Senator Carl Levin, including 15 years at the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations leading inquiries into money laundering, offshore tax abuse, corruption, and corporate misconduct. After Senator Levin retired, she helped establish the Levin Center at Wayne Law in his honor, and now works for the Center to help legislatures conduct oversight investigations. Elise has also authored a book: Financial Exposure: Carl Levin’s Senate...
Published 09/18/20
Dartanyon Antwaun Williams was the student teachers loved to hate and one of his classmates’ favourites. He graduated with a 4.0 GPA and technical training certifications, then promptly set it all aside to pursue criminal aspirations. The unprecedented sophistication of his crimes earned him consultancies with the FBI, Secret Service, Louisiana Bureau of Investigation, Louisiana State Police, and US Attorney’s Offices for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Louisiana, helping their respective...
Published 07/17/20
Alex Brunwin and Anthony Flemmer are the chairman and CEO respectively of Defence Logic, a Jersey-based cybersecurity firm which provides cyber-awareness training, and cybersecurity consulting and solutions to clients around the world. Both have extensive experience in the fintech space. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Published 06/26/20
Jack, who is joining the AML Talk Show for a second time, is a Washington lawyer who is an expert on white-collar financial crime and international tax evasion. He served for many years as a U.S. Senate staff attorney, where he was involved in numerous well-known investigations, including those of Lockheed Aircraft and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). He has helped several banks build their anti-money laundering systems. Jack is now a senior advisor to the Tax Justice...
Published 06/19/20
Jim is the Principal and Founder of RegTech Consulting, a private consultancy aimed at developing the next generation of BSA/AML and financial crime professionals, technologies and programs. Previously Jim worked for over 10 years as the BSA Officer, Global Head of Financial Crimes Risk Management at Wells Fargo & Co, and before that he served as the Global Anti-Money Laundering Operations Executive for Bank of America. Jim was also a founding member of the ACAMS advisory board, has spent...
Published 06/12/20
AML Talk Show host Martin Woods on the other side of the mic with host and RiskScreen CEO Stephen Platt See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Published 05/29/20
AML Talk Show host Martin Woods with guest speaker Graham Wilson, former police detective and telecoms risk officer, discussing mobile phones and data management See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Published 05/21/20
Tom Keatinge is Director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at RUSI and we're delighted to welcome him to the AML Talk Show. Tom's research focuses on matters at the intersection of finance and security, including the use of finance as a tool of intelligence and disruption. His research on finance and security considers a number of themes including terrorist financing, human trafficking and modern slavery, new approaches to tackling financial crime and corruption. He also...
Published 05/15/20
Ian is Head of the UK Financial Intelligence Unit in the National Crime Agency, which receives, analyses and disseminates suspicious activity reports submitted under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and the Terrorism Act 2000. Nearly half a million reports are managed by the UKFIU each year, and the Unit is undergoing significant change. Prior to that he undertook a number of roles in the NCA, including overseeing the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce and developing law enforcement...
Published 05/01/20
Graduating from both Oxford and Harvard, Tom Mueller is author of the book, Crisis of Conscience: whistleblowing in an age of fraud, a cultural history of whistleblowing and fraud. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Published 04/24/20
Jack is a Washington lawyer who is an expert on white-collar financial crime and international tax evasion. He served for many years as a U.S. Senate staff attorney, where he was involved in numerous well-known investigations, including those of Lockheed Aircraft and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). He has helped several banks build their anti-money laundering systems. Jack is now a senior advisor to the Tax Justice Network and has worked as a consultant and expert...
Published 04/17/20
We’re so pleased to be able to welcome Robert Mazur to the KYC360 AML Talk Show, in conversation with leading AML expert and RiskScreen CEO, Stephen Platt.  Robert is one of the world’s leading authorities on money laundering techniques, internationally recognized as an expert by private and public sector leaders, and of course author of “The Infiltrator”, a memoir about his undercover life as a high level money launderer. Stephen and Robert will be chewing over recent compliance scandals –...
Published 04/03/20
Mark Hays is the campaign leader, anti-money laundering, Global Witness Mark's role at Global Witness is to lead a global campaign that's focused on combating money laundering in the context of corruption in the natural resources sector. For 25 years Global Witness has been studying the links between natural resources, corruption and conflict, involving scandals spanning illegal timber, illegal mining, corrupt deals in the oil sector and more. A key element of any one of these scandals has...
Published 03/13/20
Bill Browder is a an American-born British financier and political activist.  For the past several years he has led an international campaign to expose corruption and human-rights abuses in Russia. His efforts culminated with the 2012 passage of the Magnitisky Act, which forbids “gross abusers” of rights in Russia from banking in or visiting the United States. The Act is named after Browder’s lawyer Sergei Magnitisky, a whistleblower who died in a Moscow prison in 2009. In this wide ranging...
Published 01/14/20
Gerard Ryle led the worldwide teams of journalists working on the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers investigations, the biggest in journalism history. Ryle is a book author and TED speaker. He has won or shared in more than 50 journalism awards from seven different countries, including the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. He and his ICIJ colleagues also shared an Emmy Award with the U.S. television program 60 Minutes. In this exclusive interview he talks to Martin Woods about the Panama and Paradise...
Published 11/18/19