In this episode, Kieran Beer talks to Daniel Stipano, a 30-year veteran of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, about the “Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020,” the most revolutionary piece of anti-financial crime legislation to emerge from Congress since the “USA PATRIOT Act.”...

In this episode, Kieran Beer interviews the award-winning Financial Times Investigations Correspondent, Tom Burgis, about his new book “Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World.” Burgis reveals how private bankers, law firms and intelligence groups help dictators, oligarchs as well as organized crime penetrate...

In this episode, Kieran Beer talks to Mike Hudson and Spencer Woodman, investigative journalists at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), about the 16 months of reporting that went into making sense of the FinCEN Files—more than 2,000 leaked SARs linking the world’s biggest...

In this episode, Kieran Beer talks to Dr. James Cockayne, head of the Secretariat of Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST), a year-old United Nations initiative enlisting financial institutions in the fight against human trafficking. Dr. Cockayne talks about how financial institutions can help track...

In this episode, Kieran Beer talks to Clare Rewcastle Brown about the latest fallout from 1MDB, the scale and scope of the corruption and how banks can do more to detect these crimes in the early stages. Brown first broke the 1MDB scandal in 2015...

In this episode, Kieran Beer talks to Sam Cooper, an investigative journalist who has dedicated his career to expose money laundering in British Columbia. Cooper talks about money laundering operations in Canadian casinos, Chinese millionaires smuggling in cash to purchase swathes of Vancouver’s real estate,...

In this episode, Kieran Beer interviews Edward Kitt, illicit finance policy lead at the British Embassy in Washington D.C. Kitt talks about U.K.’s public beneficial ownership register, tangible benefits of the public-private partnership group Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce (JMLIT) and how effective global information...

In this episode, Michael Sachs talks to Kieran Beer about the cutting-edge work that the Manhattan District Attorney's office is doing to take down cybercrime. From scams involving Michael Jordan sneakers and black market Xanax, to a crypto-armed robbery, Sachs has seen it all. They...

In this episode, Juan Zarate explains why sanctions should not be treated like a light switch. He also talks about the U.S. withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and why financial tools are at the heart of national security efforts. In addition,...