Financial Crime Weekly Podcast

Hello, and welcome to episode 72 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. It’s been a middling week this week on the financial crime front. Quite a bit of sanctions activity, with news of another challenge to designation in the UK, and more sanctions from the US relating to the supply of arms to the Russian war machine. On fraud, a bit of legacy news from the US and the global f...

Hello, and welcome to episode 71 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. It’s been a quiet week this week, but there is enough to keep us interested.   As usual, I have linked the main stories flagged in the podcast in the description. These are:   Department for Business and Trade, Guidance for the Registration of Overseas Entities on the UK Register of Overseas Entities Techn...

Hello, and welcome to episode 70 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. It’s been a busy week this week, with plenty across sanctions, fraud, money laundering and cyber-attack news. Let’s crack on.   As usual, I have linked the main stories flagged in the podcast in the description. These are:   Blackberry, Global Threat Intelligence Report: Actionable and Contextualized Intel...

Hello, and welcome to episode 69 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been quite a very quiet week this week. I think most sensible people must be on holiday. Still, I have managed to find just enough financial crimes news to keep things ticking over. Let’s crack on.   As usual, I have linked the main stories flagged in the podcast in the description. These a...

Hello, and welcome to episode 68 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been quite a quiet week this week, with sanctions taking centre stage. However, there is the usual mix of fraud, money laundering, and bribery, together wth a round-up of the cyber-attack news. Let’s crack on.   As usual, I have linked the main stories flagged in the podcast in the descript...

Hello, and welcome to episode 67 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been one hell of a busy week this week, where fraud and money laundering take centre stage, and we also round-up the cyber-attack news appearing across various outlets. Let’s crack on.   As usual, I have linked the main stories flagged in the podcast in the description. These are:   Amnesty...

Hello, and welcome to episode 66 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been one hell of a busy week this week, where fraud and money laundering take centre stage, and we also round-up the cyber-attack news appearing across various outlets. Let’s crack on.   As usual, I have linked the main stories flagged in the podcast in the description. These are:   Attorne...

Hello, and welcome to episode 65 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been one hell of a busy week this week, especially on sanctions, fraud, and money laundering. The cyber-attack news has taken a bit of a dip this week, but I doubt that’s because they’re not happening. Let’s crack on.   As usual, I have linked the main stories flagged in the podcast in the...

Hello, and welcome to episode 64 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been a quiet week this week which, to be frank, I’m glad about given other things I’ve had on my plate this week. There has been an increase in the amount of sanctions activity, a decent range of money laundering news, and the usual range of other bits and pieces, as well as the usual round...

Hello, and welcome to episode 63 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. The big news stories this week have focused on fraud and bribery and anti-corruption, but there are other bits across the area, as well as the usual round-up of cyber-attack news. Let’s crack on.   As usual, I have linked the main stories flagged in the podcast in the description. These are:   E...

Hello, and welcome to episode 62 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been a reasonably quiet week this week. A bit of news across the main financial crime areas, with the usual round-up of cyber-attack news. Let’s crack on.   As usual, I have linked the main stories flagged in the podcast in the description. These are:   Council of Europe, Hungary: anti-corr...

Hello, and welcome to episode 61 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been a decent week this week, with a good range of money laundering stories, some bribery and anti-corruption news, and the usual round-up of cyber-attack news, with continuing repercussions for Latitude and Capita. Let’s crack on.   As usual, I have linked the main stories flagged in the p...

Hello, and welcome to episode 60 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been a decent week this week, which is good. A few bits on sanctions, fraud, and money laundering, plus a round-up of the interesting cyber-attack news making the headlines this week. Let’s crack on.   As usual, I have linked the main stories flagged in the podcast in the description. These...

Hello, and welcome to episode 59 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been another quiet week this week, which is good when I’m still busy elsewhere. A few bits on sanctions, fraud, and money laundering, plus a round-up of the interesting cyber-attack news making the headlines this week. Let’s crack on.   As usual, I have linked the main stories flagged in th...

Hello, and welcome to episode 58 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been a quiet week this week, which is good when I’m busy elsewhere. A few bits on sanctions, fraud, and money laundering, plus a round-up of the interesting cyber-attack news making the headlines this week. Let’s crack on.   As usual, I have linked the main stories flagged in the podcast in...

Hello, and welcome to episode 57 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been a busy week this week, with plenty on fraud, bribery, and cyber-attacks, with some bits and pieces on other things. Let’s crack on.   As usual, I have linked the main stories flagged in the podcast in the description. These are:   Bank of England and Prudential Regulation Authority, Th...

Hello, and welcome to episode 56 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been a slightly quieter week for financial crime this week, which is always good for someone who is at their busiest point in the academic year. Still, there are stories on sanctions, where we have seen a little more activity, money laundering, and interesting themes coming out of coordinat...

Hello, and welcome to episode 55 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s a bumper edition this week, with even a bit of a pick-up in the sanctions news. There are a couple of fraud reports out this week, and the Wolfsberg Group has published an update to it anti-bribery and corruption guidance. There’s a bit on money laundering, and market abuse, and we end with...

Hello and welcome to this special edition of the Financial Crime Weekly podcast where we look at the proposal of the UK government to introduce a new offence to the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill which is currently making its way through Parliament. The proposal, of which we do not have a draft but from what has been trailed, appears to mirror the offence of failure to prevent brib...

Hello, and welcome to episode 54 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been another bumper week for financial crime this week, so my hopes that there would be an ease down in work were short-lived. Lots of news on everything, except for sanctions, with a round-up of cyber-attack news at the end.   These are the links to the principal documents mentioned in the...

Hello and welcome to this special edition of the Financial Crime Weekly podcast where we look at the recently published National Audit Office Report, Tackling fraud and corruption against government . The report is a broad-ranging one which seeks to make plain the scale of the losses caused to the public purse by fraud and corruption. In some eye-watering commentary on the increase in scale over r...

Hello, and welcome to episode 53 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been another bumper week for financial crime this week, so my hopes that there would be an ease down in work were short-lived. Lots of news on everything, except for sanctions, with a round-up of cyber-attack news at the end.   These are the links to the principal documents mentioned in the...

Hello and welcome to this special edition of the Financial Crime Weekly podcast where we look at the UK government’s Economic Crime Plan 2 2023 – 2026 . The plan seeks to embolden work which is already underway, providing a clear timeline for implementation. In this episode, we consider the proposals in the action points in the Plan, look to see what people have been saying about it, before I high...

Hello, and welcome to episode 52 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been a bumper week for financial crime this week, with big stories on fraud, money laundering, and especially bribery and anti-corruption. However, this week’s big news in the UK – the publication by HMG of Economic Crime Plan 2 will be the subject of a podcast special coming up mid-week, s...

Hello, and welcome to episode 51 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been a very busy week for financial crime news this week. There’s a decent wedge of news on sanctions, fraud, bribery, and money laundering. We’ll also round-up the week’s cyber-attacks. Let’s make a start. These are the links to the principal documents mentioned in the podcast: BBC News, F...