The Kyckr Podcast

In this episode of Registries Revealed , we ask a question that’s on the mind of every KYB and AML professional right now: what on earth is going on with UBO register access? Kyckr CEO Steve Lamb is joined by beneficial ownership transparency expert Stephen Abbott Pugh to unpack the shifting landscape around access to UBO registers worldwide. They explore: How we got from the early push for open b...

Navigating France's complex business registry landscape just got easier. Join Steve Lamb as he sits down with Vasco Alexandre , co-founder and CEO of Dotfile, to decode the French registry system that has evolved from 141 scattered commercial courts to today's centralised approach. Discover how France's ambitious registry modernisation through INPI and the transition from fragmented RC...

Dive into Hong Kong's corporate registry transformation with our host and COO of Kyckr, Steve Lamb , and Ficoal Dong of Asia Verify, a compliance veteran with 20 years of experience. Discover how Hong Kong's complete system revamp in December 2023 balances enhanced UBO transparency with data privacy, introducing a unified business identifier while restricting access to sensitive director i...

Could the complex ownership structures behind your favourite football club be hiding more than just business strategy? In this bonus episode of Registries Revealed, we dive into the murky world of Premier League football ownership with the University of Manchester criminologists Nicholas Lord and Peter Duncan who reveal how opaque corporate structures and secretive jurisdictions in club ownership...

Recognised globally for its innovative corporate registry and anti-money laundering (AML) practices, Singapore has set the gold standard in transparency and compliance.   Our host and COO of Kyckr, Steve Lamb is joined by Oonagh van den Berg , CEO and Founder of Virtual Risk Solutions (VRS) and RAW Compliance, to explore Singapore's Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA).     Key...

Welcome back to Registries Revealed, the podcast which deep dives into the complex world of company registries. In Episode four, Steve is joined by Justin Hygate , Vice President of Registry Solutions at Foster Moore - The Registry People , to discuss New Zealand's Companies Office. Together they deep dive on: - Transparency vs. Privacy - The role of the registry as a service provider - Triage...

Welcome back to Registries Revealed , a new podcast which deep dives into the complex world of company registers. In episode three, Steve is joined by Ben Cronin , one of Kyckr's original founders, to discuss the Ireland's Companies Registration Office, or CRO. Together they attempt to answer key questions including: How does Ireland's company registry system compare to the UK and Australia? What...

Welcome back to Registries Revealed , a new podcast series which deep dives into the complex world of company registers. In episode two, Steve is joined by our very own Alex Beck, Head of Product at Kyckr to discuss Australia's registers. Together they attempt to answer key questions including: ​Why are three different Australian business registers and what purpose do they serve?  ​What role do ‘i...

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Registries Revealed , a new podcast series which deep dives into the complex world of company registers. Across ten episodes, our host, Steve Lamb, COO of Kyckr, will investigate the national registers in ten global financial centres, accompanied by local experts from each region. Get ready for insightful discussion and expert analysis that explores key topics r...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/12eceygkzzspiif/Gregory%20Dellas.mp3?dl=0 In today’s episode of the Future of KYC Compliance, Ian is joined by Gregory Dellas, Chief Compliance and Innovation Officer at ECOMMBX. Gregory highlights the importance of staying current with regulatory changes, being one step ahead of criminals, and properly utilizing technology in the fight against financial crime. Gregory, f...

In this episode of the Future of KYC Compliance, Ian joins Nelson Yiannakou, Regional Money Laundering Reporting Officer ( APAC ) at Revolut, as he shares his views on the current state of AML obligations and compliance in Australia. We touch on some of the bigger financial crime monitoring challenges faced by regulators today, and Nelson gives us a fresh perspective on the importance of having a...

In today’s episode of the Future of KYC Compliance, Ian is joined by Joel Lange, General Manager of Risk and Compliance at Dow Jones.  Topics Discussed:  What drew Joel into the world of financial crime prevention The scope of Joel’s work with Dow Jone’s risk and compliance management Key AML and financial crime risks we have today The shift from KYC to KYB Primary trends in risk management and fi...

Investigative journalism has been key to discovering illicit financial flows, tax heavens and the challenges of reforming the international financial infrastructure. Every investigation and every leak brings progress in the search for transparency, it raises the bar for financial institutions, and the pressure against financial crime actors. In today’s episode we are joined by Will Fitzgibbon, a s...

Technology is a double edged sword. On the one hand it gives compliance professionals better tools to catch the bad actors, but it also empowers criminals to perpetrate their actions successfully.  Today we are joined by Dan Stipano, Partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell, who has extensive regulatory and enforcement experience including more than 30 years at the Office of the Comptroller of the Cur...

Whether it is laws, regulations, guidance, or issuances, the processes that make our regulatory regimes more effective are slow. By the time we reach consensus and refine our standards, criminals are doing something else. Lauren Kohr has been in the anti-financial crime sector for over 16 years. She currently serves as Senior Director of AML at ACAMS, the largest international membership organizat...

We’ve repeatedly seen how large financial institutions are fined for AML compliance failures and breaches that other organizations have experienced in the past.  What’s the role these sanctions truly play in preventing financial crime recurrence? In today’s episode, we are joined by Anton Moiseienko, a Lecturer at the ANU College of Law who not only has been studying the legal and policy aspects o...

Edmund McCormack is the founder of Dchained and has been in the crypto-blockchain space since 2011. From a starting point where lack of transparency was a fact, the industry has evolved now to a state where it’s extremely difficult to move money without being traced. How can we leverage blockchain, biometrics, and other types of technology to advance our AML and KYC capabilities? In today’s episod...

Although it’s truth that some of the most well established terrorist organizations tend to mirror organized crime and money laundering techniques, there are many misconceptions around the level of innovation, involved mechanisms and detectability of these activities. Jessica Davis is the President of Insight Threat Intelligence and in today’s episode she deep dives into the world of terrorist fina...

What are the skills that make a compliance officer successful? Willem Wellinghoff is PMA Media Group’s Global Chief Compliance and UK MLRO Officer and he achieves over 15 years of experience in the financial services, financial crime and technology sectors. What makes Willem’s insights unique is the combination of his compliance skills with the lessons learned from mentoring startup accelerators a...

The financial industry is plagued with systemic failures and new ways of committing crime seem to be accelerating rather than decelerating. Are we doing enough to prevent fraud and money laundering? Or are we building solutions that are mainly focused on detection? Is there a one-to-one correlation with the amount of money that you spend on these tools? Or is it rather more important the type of t...

If financial criminals are always one step ahead, what should organizations be doing to catch up with the bad actors? Today‘s guest has one simple yet powerful answer: working together. If fraudsters and financial criminals are cooperating with each other by sharing technology, analytics and information to succeed in their schemes, wouldn‘t it be logical for organizations to do the same? Dave Exce...

Technology is taking the lead in the world of KYC compliance and onboarding clients, safely, is and will remain a challenge. What are the tools criminals use to fabricate an online persona? How do we make sure we are onboarding a real person when we ask for a selfie? Vanessa Williams is the Global Chief Compliance Officer and AML/CFT Officer of CrossTower, a digital asset capital markets firm with...

Fraudsters and financial criminals operate globally and the only way to fight this network is with a network. Tracy Manning has over 25 years of experience driving data strategy, innovation and growth efforts within companies like AT&T, Cox, Twitter, Cincinnati Bell, and GroundTruth. She is now Director of Financial Crime Compliance at LexisNexis Risk Solutions. In this episode, she shines a l...

Megan Prendergast Millard has an outstanding record in the world of AML and financial crime compliance. During her almost 15 years at the New York State Department of Financial Services, she supervised investigations of licensed institutions in a wide range of areas including BSA/AML, OFAC sanctions, market manipulation, virtual currency as well as all other banking and insurance matters. She was...

Bala Kumar is Chief Product Officer at Jumio, an end-to-end identity verification and eKYC platform that helps businesses protect against fraud, money laundering, and financial crime.  Bala brings over 20 years of product innovation experience to the world of KYC compliance. A true believer in the power of data, he offers insights on the role of product and technology in addressing the problems of...