In this episode, Kieran Beer talks with Jacqueline Shinfield, partner at Blakes, Cassels & Graydon about the latest legislative and regulatory requirements from Finance Canada and FINTRAC, that are part of the nation’s renewed vigor to fight financial crime. Ahead of the ACAMS Annual Canada...

In this episode, Kieran talks with Jessica Davis, president of Insight Threat Intelligence and the author of the just released “Illicit Money: Financing Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century.” Davis discusses her comprehensive book, which is based on her study of some 50 terrorist organizations and...

In this episode, Kieran Beer talks with Gurvais Grigg, Chainalysis’ Global Public Sector chief technology officer, about tracking cryptocurrency used in fraud, ransomware and other crimes. Whether exchange-traded digital currencies or so-called privacy coins, companies like Chainalysis, in tandem with law enforcement, are increasingly identifying...

In this episode, Kieran Beer talks with Elizabeth “Liz” Roper, chief of the Cybercrime and Identity Theft Bureau within the New York County District Attorney’s office. As head of one of the most sophisticated anti-cybercrime labs in the world, Roper details what she sees as...

In this episode, Kieran Beer talks with former prosecutor Liz Loewy, who founded the elder abuse bureau in the New York District Attorney’s office in 1994 and is co-founder and current chief operating officer of EverSafe, a company that utilizes financial technology to protect elderly...

In this episode, Kieran Beer talks with Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, about the rising threat from right-wing domestic terror groups. Rooted in varying myths of nationalist identity, right-wing extremist groups are increasingly cooperating with one another across nation state...

In this episode, Kieran Beer talks with James Cohen, executive director at Transparency International Canada, about financial crime in Canada, the rise in money laundering via “snow washing” and the corrupting influence of illicit foreign fund flows from transnational criminal groups. During their talk, Cohen...

In this episode, Kieran Beer talks with Sara Crowe, strategic initiatives director for financial systems at Polaris, a nonprofit dedicated to ending sex and human labor trafficking. During their talk, Sara touches on Polaris’ efforts to connect trafficked individuals to law enforcement and social services...

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...