E39: How a naive compliance culture opened the doors for money-laundering.

To mark Valentine's Day and the season of romance, we're re-spinning an incredibly important episode.More than £106m was lost to romance fraud in the UK in 2025, a 9% increase on the year before. Deep...

12 Feb 38min

The old adage about social media is: 'If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.'We’re used to hearing how platforms use our data to feed advertisers, but what if there’s a darker unde...

5 Feb 34min

In this industry, we’re constantly told that financial criminals are 'one step ahead' – but what if the very systems we built to stop them are actually giving them the lead? Our expert host, Marit Rød...

29 Jan 47min

The history of AML has always been reactive.We move so fast to catch the next threat that we rarely look back at how we got here. But that changes today!In our 150th episode – Our expert host, Marit R...

22 Jan 38min

America remains the ultimate trend setter – and that goes for regulation and law enforcement.Which is why you should not be ignoring FinCEN’s new guidance on SARs that is stripping back and relaxing s...

15 Jan 37min

Cross our palms with silver and look deeply into the crystal ball. We’re gazing into the future of financial crime in 2026. Consider this your 'Spoiler Alert' for the year ahead!Our expert host, Fredr...

8 Jan 38min

Oslo is the centre of global attention this week as the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was presented, in absentia, to Maria Corina Machado – for her work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela.Venezuela is ...

10 Dec 202536min

“Uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect civil rights” – these are the stated aims of the US Department of Justice.The US is the world’s largest economy, where every decision ...

4 Dec 202539min