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Financial Crime Weekly PodcastAuthor: Christopher Kirkbride
Welcome to the Financial Crime UK Weekly podcast. Im Chris Kirkbride and I lecture law.This is an introductory podcast to give you a guide as to the sort of things which we will be looking at on this podcast in the first week of every month. However, there will be specials and additional podcasts out of this sequence if something happens which is significant and deserves a special episode.So, what are the sort of things well be talking about? Well, we will cover news, events, legal developments, and anything else that relates to financial crime, in the UK obviously, because that is in the podcast title but also in other jurisdictions. No man is an island and financial crime certainly does not respect national borders.Broadly, the coverage will be all aspects of:Fraud Bribery Market abuse and insider dealing Money laundering and terrorist financing Data and information theft Cybercrime (phishing / smishing) and the challenges generated by fintech in terms of finance crime threats.While these might be financial crimes, strictly speaking, but that is not all. It is necessary to reflect on the responses to financial crime which the state adopts. While this is less about fines and imprisonment, we will focus on confiscation and recovery schemes, sanctions imposed on those who have committed financial crimes, together with arrangements designed to allow the offender to avoid/defer prosecution, namely, deferred prosecution agreements.Consideration will also be given to the regulatory architecture of financial crime, both domestic and international as stated, financial crime does not respect borders together with regulatory enforcement and aspects of the compliance industry the industry which helps commercial entities stay on the right side of the law.Finally, and this is a particular interest of mine, but I am fascinated by the interface between criminal and civil law where the facts of an event could lead to prosecution or civil action. Consequently, while this is a Language: en-gb Genres: Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Financial Crime Weekly Episode 180
Sunday, 17 August, 2025
Hello, and welcome to episode 180 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I am Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, we bring you up to speed on the latest developments in financial crime, starting with major sanctions updates from the US and UK. We cover the indictment of Haitian gang leader 'Barbecue' for US sanctions violations, and significant US Treasury actions against Mexican cartels involved in timeshare fraud, drug trafficking, and agricultural extortion. We also delve into the sanctions against Garantex and Grinex for enabling cybercrime and sanctions evasion, the US Treasury's temporary authorisation for the US-Russia Alaska summit, and the UK OFSI's recent amendment concerning irregular migration. In money laundering news, we explore an innovative BIS proposal leveraging blockchain transparency for enhanced crypto anti-money laundering compliance, particularly relevant for stablecoins. We also examine a new report exposing deep-rooted corruption in the global arms trade and the City of London Police's use of an INTERPOL Silver Notice to pursue a fugitive fraudster's assets. This and much more in this week's episode.A transcript of this podcast, with links to the stories, will be available at www.crimes.financial.
