Greatest Hits:  A European fintech exposed as a billion dollar fraud
The Laundry7 Aug 2025

Greatest Hits: A European fintech exposed as a billion dollar fraud

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This is a story about the wild rise and crushing fall of the tech giant, Wirecard, that was exposed as a billion dollar accounting fraud.


It raises big questions about corporate fraud, money laundering and the need for strong financial regulations.


In this episode (originally aired July 2022) your expert hosts, Marit Rodevand and Fredrik Riiser, are joined by Dan McCrum, investigative reporter and author of Money Men, to discuss: how a European fintech was exposed as a billion dollar fraud


The panel break down: Dan's investigations into Wirecard, the rollercoaster impact on his life, and what lessons have been learned from this case.


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The Laundry podcast explores the complex world of financial crime, anti-money laundering (AML), compliance, sanctions, and global financial regulation.


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E173: Can we train AI to THINK like a fincrime investigator?

E173: Can we train AI to THINK like a fincrime investigator?

70% of us have already let AI loose on our day-to-day tasks — summarising documents, knocking out images, the usual.Turning it loose on a financial crime investigation is a different question entirely...

10 Sep 24min

E172: Is this the end of beneficial ownership data?

E172: Is this the end of beneficial ownership data?

In August 2026, FinCEN made it official: US companies no longer have to disclose who actually owns them.Five years after the Corporate Transparency Act was signed into law as America's "toughest anti-...

3 Sep 26min

E171: How do we put the "human" back into AI processes in fincrime?

E171: How do we put the "human" back into AI processes in fincrime?

You've seen the stories: a big company makes staff redundant, replaces them with a shiny AI feature, then quietly hires them back once it all goes wrong.Why does this keep happening? Swapping human ex...

27 Aug 28min

E170: What does the board need to know about AML?

E170: What does the board need to know about AML?

"AML is a board-level topic." – but is this true in practice?Is this more a provocative challenge than a current statement of fact? Under the EU's incoming AMLR, that may be set to change, but are mos...

6 Aug 34min

Re-Spin: How do we stop MLRO burnout?

Re-Spin: How do we stop MLRO burnout?

MLROs are vital to financial services - a crucial link between companies, the risks they face, and the authorities.The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority have previously sent a warning to hundreds of c...

30 Jul 30min

Re-Spin: Did Wirecard's collapse shape the future of whistleblowing?

Re-Spin: Did Wirecard's collapse shape the future of whistleblowing?

The Wirecard scandal has become the stuff of legend.A German payments company, worth tens of billions of euros, collapsed following the exposure of massive accounting fraud and financial misconduct. I...

23 Jul 26min

E169: Is AMLA *really* on track?

E169: Is AMLA *really* on track?

No one said building a regulator from the ground up would be easy.But when the organisation chair, Bruna Szego, describes it as like ‘flying a plane while building it’ – you have to wonder how things ...

16 Jul 38min

E168: Can following the money disrupt the illegal wildlife trade?

E168: Can following the money disrupt the illegal wildlife trade?

The illegal wildlife trade is the fourth-biggest criminal market on the planet — behind only narcotics, counterfeiting, and human trafficking. And like any criminal trade of that scale, there's a huge...

9 Jul 31min

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