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The Dark Money Files — 152 episodes
The verification game
Is Companies House an economic bellwether?
Happy birthday OFSI
It's a grey(list) area
Crime on the high street - part two
Crime on the high street - part one
A fine fanfare - Coinbase and JP Morgan SE
The Dark Money Files meets (Episode 1)... The Laundry
Policing the corporate landscape - the role of The Insolvency Service
The highs (and lows) of PEP classifications
Where there's a will...
Transparency and trust issues: the secret life of property
Trigger warning!
The sharing of suspicion
Don't let mules make an ass of your firm
We're scamming, we hope you like scamming too...
Unheard voices - fine outcomes
Financial Crime Training - Mind the gap!
The (out)source code
Hot spots and intelligence 2
Hot spots and intelligence
Are corporate entities the Swiss army knife of financial crime?
Organised Crime - two's company but three's an OCG
A proliferation explanation conversation
It’s payback time! – the new UK regime for mandatory scam reimbursement
The democratisation of crime
Bar Wars - Attack of the Clones
It's over to EU
Are PEPs domestic?
ECCTA Part 2 - SLAPPS, Fraud, Crypto and information sharing
Companies House - it's time to Act
A close shave – Ockam’s razor and plausibility
Ownership, control, or influence? UBOs and further complications
Ownership, control, or influence? It’s time for the UBO question!
A Neidle in a tax scam
A view from the Farage side
You find what you look for!
Bias and noise – how they differ and why it matters
MI oh MI What a Wonderful Day
Show me the money!
VATs the problem?
Investing in testing 2 - Is it in the test?
Investing in Testing - why assessment matters: Part 1
KYC - The Canary in the Coal Mine
Dr Blake’s casebook – a roundup of stories you may have missed
Can we have the Bill please?
Trivia - when three paths meet
AOB – recent publications and guidance
Fraud part three: Watcha gonna do about it!
Your company is not welcome here!
Fraud part two: The grift that keeps on grifting
Fraud, intents and purposes
Synthetic data and real-world applications: The FCA call for input
Tax: Avoidance, evasion, and small umbrellas
Selfies, Swipes and Security - authentication in the digital age
A view from the dark side – Part 3
A view from the dark side - Part 2
A view from the dark side - Part 1
NatWest Bank and HSBC: The King, his cleaner and the thirsty aspidistra
NatWest Bank and the Bradford Laundromat - part 2
NatWest Bank and the Bradford Laundromat - part 1
Green flags and white lists
Companies House Advanced Search
Regulators, statistics and benchmarking
Set the controls for the heart of the risk
The Pandora Papers
Everything you ever wanted to know about remediation but were afraid to ask!
It's RAG week at The Dark Money Files
Alternative Laundries 4 - Informal Value Transfer Systems
Alternative Laundries 3 - Art, auctions, sanctions and shells
Dark Money Conference Special
The FCA's Dear CEO AML Letter
Alternative Laundries 2 - What are the odds?
Alternative Laundries
Stings, Hacks and Honeypots
Financial Intelligence Units and the Egmont Group
Everyone's a critic!
We're going Dutch for this round!
NatWest bank charges and boiling a frog
IFF only we knew: Measuring illicit financial flows
Formed in the USA - Beneficial Ownership and the Corporate Transparency Act
British Shells and the Beirut Blast
TDMF - review of the year: Part Four
TDMF - review of the year: Part Three
TDMF - review of the year: Part Two
TDMF - review of the year: Part One
Suspicious Activity Reports - Under the Spotlight
Sanctions (Room) 101
Unexplained Wealth Orders - a primer
Companies House: It's time to reform (maybe, if we can find the time and money)
The Dark Money Conference - our post conference review
The FinCEN Files Special
It's the Dark Money Conference call!
HMRC, TCSPs and other impossible scrabble hands
What's your source? Wolfsberg, Wealth and Funds
Deutsche Bank and the DFS NY: Part Three - Danske Bank
Deutsche Bank and the DFS NY: Part Two - FBME
Deutsche Bank and the DFS NY: Part One - Epstein
A fine day in London and Stockholm (part 2)
A fine day in London and Stockholm
Significant Control - who is and who isn't a PSC
Trade based money laundering - a penny for your thoughts?
There's a lot of it about (we go viral)
Lifting the spell of dirty money - we review the EBF report (Part 2)
Lifting the spell of dirty money - we review the EBF report (Part 1)
Coronavirus special - we're going "Live Online"
Swedbank - the Clifford Chance report
Let's get together!
A fine day for a podcast
Let's talk about sex(ism)!
Ali Moulaye rides again - the OCCRP and the Azerbaijani Laundromat
The Financial Crime Guide
The Business Wide Risk Assessment
Assessing Customer Risk #2 - Channel, Entity, Industry and Products
Assessing Customer Risk #1 - Geography
SEB and its Baltic operations - a special report
Risky Business
It's time for a PEP talk!
Panorama, Money Laundering, Whistleblowers and PEPS
Swedbank shines a light but FATF prefers privacy
The feeling's mutual - The Financial Action Task Force and the Mutual Evaluation Report
The highs and lows of correspondent banking
The world of the MLRO
Looking back and looking forward
The EU Money Laundering Report
The Deutsche Bank Story, Part Four: The road to ruing
The Deutsche Bank Story, Part Three: What the FCA found
The Deutsche Bank Story, Part Two - The FCA comes to visit
The Deutsche Bank Story: Part One - The Mirror Trades
Extraordinary Danske developments and the need to report suspicions
Old banks and new technologies - oil and water?
Oh what tangled webs we weave!
Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptography - Time to look forward
Deutsche Bank's "Glitch" and Lithuania's "Pitch" - a week in AML
Laundromats and Legal Entities - part three: Scottish Limited Partnerships
The good, the bad and the companies - The Global Witness Report
Laundromats and Legal Entities - part two: Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs)
Laundromats and Legal Entities - part one: Limited Companies
Ali Moulaye: The man, the myth and the method
Episode 10 - The Whistleblower, the UK and the Russian connections
Episode 9 - Danske Bank: The bond loop and the intermediaries
Special Episode 3 - The Swedbank/Forensic Risk Alliance Report Phase 1
Episode 8 - The Missed Opportunities
Special Episode 2 - The Troika Laundromat
Episode 7 - The Suspicious Activity Report (Part 2)
Special Episode 1 - The Ousting of Danske and the Arrival of Swedbank
Episode 6 - The Suspicious Activity Report (Part 1)
Episode 5 - The Billion Dollar Deal
Episode 4 - The Billion Dollar Hold
Episode 3 - The Billion Dollar Shuffle
Episode 2 - The Launching of a Laundromat
Episode 1 - The Background