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The Dark Money Files — 152 episodes

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1

The verification game

2

Is Companies House an economic bellwether?

3

Happy birthday OFSI

4

It's a grey(list) area

5

Crime on the high street - part two

6

Crime on the high street - part one

7

A fine fanfare - Coinbase and JP Morgan SE

8

The Dark Money Files meets (Episode 1)... The Laundry

9

Policing the corporate landscape - the role of The Insolvency Service

10

The highs (and lows) of PEP classifications

11

Where there's a will...

12

Transparency and trust issues: the secret life of property

13

Trigger warning!

14

The sharing of suspicion

15

Don't let mules make an ass of your firm

16

We're scamming, we hope you like scamming too...

17

Unheard voices - fine outcomes

18

Financial Crime Training - Mind the gap!

19

The (out)source code

20

Hot spots and intelligence 2

21

Hot spots and intelligence

22

Are corporate entities the Swiss army knife of financial crime?

23

Organised Crime - two's company but three's an OCG

24

A proliferation explanation conversation

25

It’s payback time! – the new UK regime for mandatory scam reimbursement

26

The democratisation of crime

27

Bar Wars - Attack of the Clones

28

It's over to EU

29

Are PEPs domestic?

30

ECCTA Part 2 - SLAPPS, Fraud, Crypto and information sharing

31

Companies House - it's time to Act

32

A close shave – Ockam’s razor and plausibility

33

Ownership, control, or influence? UBOs and further complications

34

Ownership, control, or influence? It’s time for the UBO question!

35

A Neidle in a tax scam

36

A view from the Farage side

37

You find what you look for!

38

Bias and noise – how they differ and why it matters

39

MI oh MI What a Wonderful Day

40

Show me the money!

41

VATs the problem?

42

Investing in testing 2 - Is it in the test?

43

Investing in Testing - why assessment matters: Part 1

44

KYC - The Canary in the Coal Mine

45

Dr Blake’s casebook – a roundup of stories you may have missed

46

Can we have the Bill please?

47

Trivia - when three paths meet

48

AOB – recent publications and guidance

49

Fraud part three: Watcha gonna do about it!

50

Your company is not welcome here!

51

Fraud part two: The grift that keeps on grifting

52

Fraud, intents and purposes

53

Synthetic data and real-world applications: The FCA call for input

54

Tax: Avoidance, evasion, and small umbrellas

55

Selfies, Swipes and Security - authentication in the digital age

56

A view from the dark side – Part 3

57

A view from the dark side - Part 2

58

A view from the dark side - Part 1

59

NatWest Bank and HSBC: The King, his cleaner and the thirsty aspidistra

60

NatWest Bank and the Bradford Laundromat - part 2

61

NatWest Bank and the Bradford Laundromat - part 1

62

Green flags and white lists

63

Companies House Advanced Search

64

Regulators, statistics and benchmarking

65

Set the controls for the heart of the risk

66

The Pandora Papers

67

Everything you ever wanted to know about remediation but were afraid to ask!

68

It's RAG week at The Dark Money Files

69

Alternative Laundries 4 - Informal Value Transfer Systems

70

Alternative Laundries 3 - Art, auctions, sanctions and shells

71

Dark Money Conference Special

72

The FCA's Dear CEO AML Letter

73

Alternative Laundries 2 - What are the odds?

74

Alternative Laundries

75

Stings, Hacks and Honeypots

76

Financial Intelligence Units and the Egmont Group

77

Everyone's a critic!

78

We're going Dutch for this round!

79

NatWest bank charges and boiling a frog

80

IFF only we knew: Measuring illicit financial flows

81

Formed in the USA - Beneficial Ownership and the Corporate Transparency Act

82

British Shells and the Beirut Blast

83

TDMF - review of the year: Part Four

84

TDMF - review of the year: Part Three

85

TDMF - review of the year: Part Two

86

TDMF - review of the year: Part One

87

Suspicious Activity Reports - Under the Spotlight

88

Sanctions (Room) 101

89

Unexplained Wealth Orders - a primer

90

Companies House: It's time to reform (maybe, if we can find the time and money)

91

The Dark Money Conference - our post conference review

92

The FinCEN Files Special

93

It's the Dark Money Conference call!

94

HMRC, TCSPs and other impossible scrabble hands

95

What's your source? Wolfsberg, Wealth and Funds

96

Deutsche Bank and the DFS NY: Part Three - Danske Bank

97

Deutsche Bank and the DFS NY: Part Two - FBME

98

Deutsche Bank and the DFS NY: Part One - Epstein

99

A fine day in London and Stockholm (part 2)

100

A fine day in London and Stockholm

101

Significant Control - who is and who isn't a PSC

102

Trade based money laundering - a penny for your thoughts?

103

There's a lot of it about (we go viral)

104

Lifting the spell of dirty money - we review the EBF report (Part 2)

105

Lifting the spell of dirty money - we review the EBF report (Part 1)

106

Coronavirus special - we're going "Live Online"

107

Swedbank - the Clifford Chance report

108

Let's get together!

109

A fine day for a podcast

110

Let's talk about sex(ism)!

111

Ali Moulaye rides again - the OCCRP and the Azerbaijani Laundromat

112

The Financial Crime Guide

113

The Business Wide Risk Assessment

114

Assessing Customer Risk #2 - Channel, Entity, Industry and Products

115

Assessing Customer Risk #1 - Geography

116

SEB and its Baltic operations - a special report

117

Risky Business

118

It's time for a PEP talk!

119

Panorama, Money Laundering, Whistleblowers and PEPS

120

Swedbank shines a light but FATF prefers privacy

121

The feeling's mutual - The Financial Action Task Force and the Mutual Evaluation Report

122

The highs and lows of correspondent banking

123

The world of the MLRO

124

Looking back and looking forward

125

The EU Money Laundering Report

126

The Deutsche Bank Story, Part Four: The road to ruing

127

The Deutsche Bank Story, Part Three: What the FCA found

128

The Deutsche Bank Story, Part Two - The FCA comes to visit

129

The Deutsche Bank Story: Part One - The Mirror Trades

130

Extraordinary Danske developments and the need to report suspicions

131

Old banks and new technologies - oil and water?

132

Oh what tangled webs we weave!

133

Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptography - Time to look forward

134

Deutsche Bank's "Glitch" and Lithuania's "Pitch" - a week in AML

135

Laundromats and Legal Entities - part three: Scottish Limited Partnerships

136

The good, the bad and the companies - The Global Witness Report

137

Laundromats and Legal Entities - part two: Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs)

138

Laundromats and Legal Entities - part one: Limited Companies

139

Ali Moulaye: The man, the myth and the method

140

Episode 10 - The Whistleblower, the UK and the Russian connections

141

Episode 9 - Danske Bank: The bond loop and the intermediaries

142

Special Episode 3 - The Swedbank/Forensic Risk Alliance Report Phase 1

143

Episode 8 - The Missed Opportunities

144

Special Episode 2 - The Troika Laundromat

145

Episode 7 - The Suspicious Activity Report (Part 2)

146

Special Episode 1 - The Ousting of Danske and the Arrival of Swedbank

147

Episode 6 - The Suspicious Activity Report (Part 1)

148

Episode 5 - The Billion Dollar Deal

149

Episode 4 - The Billion Dollar Hold

150

Episode 3 - The Billion Dollar Shuffle

151

Episode 2 - The Launching of a Laundromat

152

Episode 1 - The Background