In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran Beer talks with Tristram Hicks, co-author with Nicholas Gilmour of “The War on Dirty Money,” an examination of the promise and shortcomings of the current costly global effort to combat financial crime. Drawing on his years as...

In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran Beer talks with David Lewis, executive secretary of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) from 2015 to 2022, about the FATF’s recent plenary that gray listed South Africa and Nigeria, formally suspended Russia from membership, and criticized...

In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran Beer talks with Oliver Bullough, award-winning reporter for The Guardian, about his latest book, Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals. During their conversation, Bullough details how Britain...

In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran Beer talks with Jonathan Dupont, a financial intelligence investigator for Western Union, and Tiffany Polyak, anti-financial crime (AFC) associate at ACAMS, about the growth in online sexual exploitation of children and the related rise in child sexual...

In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran Beer talks with Bryan Smith, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Cybercriminal Section and a 20-year bureau veteran, about the growing threat of cybercrime to both individuals and large corporations. Smith discusses the destruction caused...