In this episode, Kieran Beer talks with Louise Shelley, Ph.D., director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University, about how terrorist organizations are funding themselves by engaging in illicit trade finance, often in partnership with transnational criminal organizations. During...

In this special episode, Kieran Beer interviews Dr. Justine Walker about the recent unprecedented scale of change in sanctions, key emerging trends and the Biden administration’s potential approach to China, Iran and North Korea. A special episode for everyone monitoring the critical and shifting sanctions...

In this episode, Kieran Beer talks with Matis Mäeker, head of Estonia’s Financial Supervisory Authority. Drawing on his experience in addressing the scandals involving money laundering out of the Russian Federation, and as a leader in Estonia’s effort to build a tougher anti-money laundering/counter terrorist...

In this episode, Kieran Beer talks with Barry MacKillop, deputy director at The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC) and Stuart Davis, Scotiabank’s global head of financial crimes risk management, about “Project Shadow,” a public-private partnership that combats the online sexual exploitation of children...

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,...