Guest on the podcast is a passionate compliance specialist who has experience in the first and second line of defense: Ekta Singh. She brings a wealth of knowledge and awareness of ethics, compliance, business management, current industry trends, and technological advancement in the Fintech, regulatory compliance, and RegTech areas. Ekta has a forward-looking approach to managing compliance and operational challenges. She has been in the Financial Industry for more than a decade and in her professional career she adored the role of Financial advisor, supervisor, Sales management, business head, and Risk & Compliance head. Her positive can-do attitude and problem-solving nature bring more to the table and she advocates that there is a thin line between business and good business.

She holds 3 Master's Degrees, ACAMS and ICA certificates. She is also a Subcommittee member of Regtech at the Singapore Fintech Association, Active working group member of ACCESS, AML working group member at Global Digital Finance (GDF), Trainer at RHT academy and Fintelekt focussing on ethics & compliance, fraud management, risk assessment, and AML/CFT.  She also volunteers as a mentor at the iLead program and Stories of Asia (SOA).

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekta-singh-cams-mba-ica-01bba13/

For the second time on the podcast, we have guests from the Silent Eight. With us now are Lyndon Reid and Pak Teng Chow. Lyndon is a seasoned professional with a real passion for sales, business development, and helping companies navigate the complex world of legal and compliance. Prior to joining Silent Eight, he made waves as the VP of Sales & Marketing at Uncharted, where he dove headfirst into the world of digital distribution technology for the insurance sector. He's also made his mark at big players like Manulife and Allianz Partners, leading alternative and affinity distribution efforts across the Asia Pacific. But let's not forget his earlier years, where he served as a Barrister at the Sydney Bar and held various legal roles in both private practice and in-house for global financial institutions.

We are also joined by Pak, Silent Eight's dynamic sales director who's leading the quest for expansion into the SEA market. Beyond his role at Silent Eight, Pak actively contributes to the Singapore FinTech Association as a member of the RegTech subcommittee. Pak is truly passionate about AI and automation, always striving to achieve more with less effort. As you'll hear today, he's brimming with enthusiasm when discussing the future of work, technology, AI, compliance, and the endless possibilities they offer. With his diverse entrepreneurial background in F&B, Mobile Games, Blockchain Education, IoT Vending Machines, and Marketing Agency, Pak brings a fresh perspective and a treasure trove of insights to the table.

LinkedIn Lyndon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyndonr/
LinkedIn Pak: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pakteng/

In this episode Denitsa and Francisco Mainez spoke about AI, technology and the new compliance co-pilot developed by Luncity, Luci. 

Our guest, Francisco, is a Financial Crime and Regulatory Transformation SME at Lucinity, where he is using his experience in Financial Crime and Intelligence to integrate different capabilities into solutions that can improve prevention, detection and investigation of Financial Crimes, as well as ensuring alignment between relevant regulations and the Lucinity product. Francisco is the former Head of Data and Analytics for Wealth and Personal Banking Financial Crime Risk at HSBC. Throughout his career, Francisco has specialised in activities related to data extraction, analysis and Money Laundering, Financial Crime Typologies, Operations, Customer Due Diligence and Tax Evasion, among other areas.  His team was also deeply involved in rolling out initiatives related to Advanced Analytics solutions for Financial Crime.
 
While in HSBC, Francisco worked in other Financial Crime Teams, such as the Financial Intelligence Unit and Global Compliance Reporting. Prior to HSBC, Francisco fulfilled roles in Standard Chartered Bank in London and Singapore after completing several tours of operations in Military Intelligence for NATO and the European Union in different geographical locations. 
 
Francisco holds a MSc in Information and Knowledge Management and a BSc in Politics and International Relations from the University of London-LSE, along with several professional certifications: CAMS, CISI Investment Operations, CFCI (Certified Financial Crimes Investigator) and SAFe (Scalable Agile Framework). In his spare time, Francisco likes to spend time with his family, read history books and ride his motorcycle.

Learn More about Luci: https://lucinity.com/luci
Connect with Francisco on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francisco-mainez-8b76679/

Guest on the episode is the brilliant Paul Stratton, known on LinkedIn as the fraud nerd. he creates insightful content, if you are not following him, do so now!. Paul is a former Police Detective with Merseyside Police in the United Kingdom, an area which covers the city of Liverpool. He spent 22 years working in various roles including covert policing and intelligence, counterterrorism and counter-extremism, undercover policing, and criminal investigations into serious and complex crimes such as domestic violence, stalking, violence and abuse against vulnerable people, and sexual offences. 

Paul’s last role in the police was as part of the Economic Crime Team, investigating cases of fraud, money laundering, and broader economic crime on a national and international level. He led and managed investigations into the most harmful, complex, and sensitive crimes, such as high-value theft and fraud by an employee, cyber-crime including illegitimate use of cryptocurrency, abuses of position within law firms and allegations of corruption in local government. Paul now works in Local Government in Liverpool as a Fraud Specialist. He leads at a senior level and is responsible for driving the organisation’s focus on fighting financial crime, specifically internal risks. He is the authority’s subject matter expert on internal fraud and fraud risk assessment and oversees their whistleblowing arrangements and internal investigations. He has recently transformed the organisation’s approach to fighting fraud and corruption with a framework and strategy described by central government as “an example of best practice”. Paul also chairs a regional fraud group and is part of national counter-fraud groups. He has a post-graduate degree in Fraud & Financial Crime and a master’s degree in Intelligence & Security Studies. Also, he works part-time as a counter-fraud coach and trainer for financial crime professionals and apprentice investigators. 

Paul will soon be changing careers and working in the FinCrime training sector full time. He lives with his wife and dog, Dexter, who is his favourite counter-fraud apprentice of all.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauldstratton/

Guest on the show today is Marco Beranzoni, the creator of the FinCrime Agent YouTube channel. 

FinCrime Agent shares tutorials, job talks, conference reviews, and interviews related to Financial Crime prevention. If you plan a career in FinCrime, these videos will help you with the first steps. For those who are already in the industry, they can be a great source of knowledge and experience sharing as well. Marco has experience in Financial Crime prevention roles across Banking and FinTech for over 15 years. In this episode, Marco will share with us his experience with creating FinCrime YouTube content, he will share with us what is successful and what are some of the challenges in the space. Additionally, we will talk more about technology trends in the AML and compliance space. 

Link to the YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/FinCrimeAgent

In this episode guest on the podcast is Ofir Shabtai. He is the CTO and Co-Founder of Shield, a technology software company specializing in employee electronic communication compliance. Shield helps organizations uncover hidden insights such as inside dealing, unlawful behavior, market abuse, and privacy matters. With laser-focused AI models designed to detect financial misconduct, Ofir leverages machine learning and NLP to pinpoint suspicious behavior and eliminate over 95% of the noise legacy tools create. Shield helps banks monitor new channels up to 4x times quicker, saving them from multi-million-dollar fines, while cutting supporting IT infrastructure costs in half.

Ofir has over 15 years of experience building large-scale systems. Prior to Shield, he was Co-Founder and CTO at several start-up companies where he built global engineering teams and was responsible for the strategy and execution of real-time systems and big data. Ofir holds an MBA in Business Management from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a BA in Computer Science from IDC Herzliya.

Link to Shield: https://www.shieldfc.com/

Michael Rasmussen’s success story starts where most entrepreneurs with a legal background begin: with big ideas to serve clients and an industry passion. He is most passionate about assisting US and UK financial services professionals seeking investment adviser registration or acquisition due diligence services in the US or UK. In 2013, he started his career in the securities industry as a regulator with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). After FINRA, Michael served in Senior SEC/FINRA Consultant positions for several established legal and consulting firms. More recently, he has acted as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for several established investment advisers and private fund managers with each institution managing over $1 Billion in assets under management.

In 2020, Michael leveraged his extensive legal and compliance background to found United Atlantic Legal Services, a law firm exclusively dedicated to assisting US & UK financial services professionals seeking investment adviser registration or acquisition due diligence services. As a licensed lawyer in both the US and UK, he is able to uniquely service clients on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

In addition to that, Michael has routinely served investment advisory firms and private fund managers as a Subject Matter Expert and has provided extensive training regarding developing and existing FINRA & SEC matters, including but not limited to Fiduciary Standards, Investment Adviser Registration, Investment Advisor Compliance, and Investment Advisor Legal and Compliance Acquisition Due Diligence. In response to the demand for legal and compliance training, he founded FinProLaw (www.finprolaw.com), a legal and compliance learning platform that provides in-depth coaching services to new and aspiring investment adviser Chief Compliance Officers.

Mr. Rasmussen received his JD from Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad College of Law, and his BS in Legal Studies from Nova Southeastern University, Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences. He serves on the Education Committee for the National Society of Compliance Professionals and has passed the FINRA 7, 24, 63, and 65 examinations.

FinProLaw: www.finprolaw.com

United Atlantic Legal Services: www.unitedatlanticls.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrasmussenlaw/

 In this episode guest on the podcast is Skip Schiphorst - an Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) language course developer and instructor who served 17 years in the Dutch Ministry of Defence. He deployed to several regions, during which his language and cultural skills were used. Skip, who holds a university degree in China Studies has a keen interest in how to incorporate languages within the OSINT spectrum. He works at I-Intelligence and their OSINT language courses include Chinese, Arabic as well as Russian; these courses show researchers that do not speak these languages how to find information online for CDD, AML, KYC and many more research purposes.
Use promo codeIINT102023for 10% off on language courses or any other i-intelligence courses.

Chinese Open Source Intelligence course:
https://i-intelligence.eu/courses/osint-chinese-internet
Arabic Open Source Intelligence course:

https://i-intelligence.eu/courses/osint-searching-the-arabic-web
Russian Open Source Intelligence course:

https://i-intelligence.eu/courses/osint-searching-the-russian-internet-virtual-course

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Just before the end of last year, we spoke with Stephen Kohn. He is a leading whistleblower attorney and subject matter expert. He won the largest ever individual tax whistleblower reward of  $104 million for UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld, and the largest ever reward ever paid to an individual under the related action provisions of the IRS, SEC and DOJ programs ($177 million). He represents Danske Bank whistleblower Howard Wilkinson in the largest money laundering scandal in world history, and successfully represented Greek whistleblowers whose information triggered a $320 million sanction against Novartis drug company under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

We met just a few days before a new AML law was passed in the US Congress. In this episode, you will hear about whistleblowing, the Danske Bank case, and more. 
https://kkc.com/our-whistleblower-law-firm/our-whistleblower-lawyers/stephen-m-kohn/

2023 has just begun and it began with so much news on the crypto front. To discuss the most recent Coinbase settlement and future trends in the crypto space, joining me today is David Carlisle, the Vice President of Policy and Regulatory Affairs at Elliptic. Before joining Elliptic, David worked for the US Department of the Treasury, including in the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), where he was involved in the design and implementation of US financial and economic sanctions programmes involving countries such as Myanmar and Iran. In subsequent roles, David worked in the Treasury’s Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes (TFFC) and advised senior Treasury officials on a wide range of topics related to sanctions, money laundering and terrorist financing. Let's now begin this exciting episode:

Check out Elliptic's 2023 Regulatory Outlook Report here:

https://www.elliptic.co/resources/regulatory-outlook-report-2023

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The guest on the podcast is Debanjan Chatterjee. Debanjan has more than 17 years of experience in Fraud Risk Management. He has been using Data Science to design counter-fraud solutions for traditional, global banks as well for modern Fintech firms. He is a certified expert in NFT and DeFi and contributes to the literature of managing Financial Crime Risk for Crypto-assets. His articles have been published on Nasdaq, Bitcoin Magazine, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, InfoSecurity Magazine and The A.I. Journal.
In this episode, we spoke about cryptocurrency, the Metaverse, AI, money laundering and technology, and how to think as a criminal. 

Connect with Debanjan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debanjan-chatterjee-03942454/

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In the second Tornado Cash special episode we spoke with Ari Redbord from TRM Labs. 
We spoke about the OFAC designation, why Tornado was considered a threat to national security and will OFAC continue designations on mixers. 
We disected the FAQs published by OFAC in early September and spoke more about AML and sanctions in the crypto space.

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This is the first Compliance Time Special we recorded with Hedi Navazan and Alex Cote. In this episode, we are chasing tornados and we talk about Tornado Cash's designation. 
You can hear so many interesting and practical examples about dusting, mixers, the future of sanctions, and what regulated exchanges can do. 
This episode is packed with value. 

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This episode outlines how determination and persistence can lead to great success in our field of work. We met with my guest through the interesting and educational content he is publishing on LinkedIn. Baptiste Forestier shares with us his experience, outlook and AML trends from France, and what should we learn to get into a higher AML  or compliance officer role. 

Baptiste's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/baptisteforestierlinkcy/

Link to the Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6947129492909772800/

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Guests on the podcast are Marina Khaustova, Nick Smart, and Hedi Navazan from Crystal Blockchain. Crystal is a blockchain analytics company providing investigation solutions. In addition to that, they closely observe changes in regulation, rank risks, and notify you of potentially irregular activities.

To introduce my guests: Marina is the CEO of Crystal Blockchain and she has influenced the industry for 12 years by developing international online services and digital marketing strategies. Hedie is the Head of Compliance - an expert on crypto-assets and financial crimes. At Crystal, she engages with regulatory bodies and other internal and external stakeholders. Nick is the Director of Blockchain Intelligence and Data at Crystal. He has 15 years of experience as a Professional Intelligence and Security Analyst working for Government Agencies and Private Companies. In the episode we will try to debunk some of the still-existing myths in the crypto space, we will talk about regulatory updates and sanctions evasion. 

Without further ado let's welcome Marina, Hedie, and Nick. 

https://crystalblockchain.com/

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Guest on the podcast is Daniel Vaknine, the CEO of Visslan. Visslan is offering solutions on how to make it easy for companies to encourage whistleblowing and unlock its hidden benefits. 

In this episode, we spoke about whistleblowing, the new EU directive, and some of the most common mistakes organizations make when implementing whistleblowing programs. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielvaknine/

https://www.visslan.com/en/home

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In this episode, I am joined by two amazing women working tirelessly on creating a trusted circle of inspiring women celebrating the essence of all that is best for professional women. You will hear from Lucianne Mallman and Gina Green the chair and vice-chair of Women in Ethics and Compliance. 

Luciane is a qualified lawyer admitted to practice in Brazil, Portugal, England, and Wales with over 18 years of professional experience specializing in Corruption and Governance, currently based in the UK. She has worked in top-tier litigation and international dispute resolution departments of Magic Circle and White-Shoe law firms before spending some time working in the consulting space. She currently holds the position of Senior Legal Counsel & Compliance Officer at a large Civil Engineering company.

Gina is based in the Northeast region of the US and is a graduate of Widener Delaware Law School in the US, with a degree in corporate and business law. She is a subject matter expert in creating and improving corporate compliance and ethics programs; in tandem with incorporating Diversity and Inclusion policy within operational processes. She is also a contributing writer and speaker for many compliance articles, events, and workshops. Gina is the Founder and Compliance Officer for Tuck9 Inc., a Compliance & Ethics Consulting Group, and is the Vice-Chair of Women in Ethics and Compliance Global, an international Organization and a partner with Forensic Compliance Consulting in Mexico City, Mexico. 

Listen to this episode to the very end because Women in Ethics and Compliance have prepared a gift for you and you will hear how to get that🙂 Remember only the first 50 listeners will be rewarded, so hurry up and claim your prize. 

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In this hot summer, let's remember how important is to learn and acquire new skills. A guest on the show is Florian Haufe. He is a compliance and anti-financial crime expert. Florian has co-initiated the Financial Crime Academy as a consortium of anti-financial crime specialists and has improved the skills of thousands of professionals ever since. Additionally, he works internationally as a management consultant and advises clients cross-industry in highly critical situations. He was an in-house compliance officer in the past.

 Florian holds two master's degrees - one in business (M.Sc) and one in business law (LL.M). He's also a CFE, CAMS, CGSS, and PMP. Academically, he is also an adjunct professor for compliance and anti-financial crime at the Swiss School of Business and Management Geneva.

And a few words about Financial Crime Academy - it offers professional online education for the global anti-financial crime and corporate risk management community. It has high quality, easy-to-access, and affordable online training programs. Most courses are awarded a business school-level certificate issued by the Financial Crime Academy together with the Swiss School of Business and Management Geneva. 

For more information check out financialcrimeacadamy.org

In this episode, we spoke with Chris Bentley, the former CEO of Bellatorum Resources, a Texas-based energy fund. This is an episode about fraud and some of the priceless lessons for Business Owners, Investors and Entrepreneurs. 

In 2021 Chris let all his clients, employees, and partners know that he had committed fraud and squandered nearly $40 million dollars. He had used the money entrusted to him to prop up his business, an investment management firm that specialized in Texas oil and gas royalties and mineral rights. He wrote a book about his experience, which you can find in the show notes. In this episode you can hear about the lessons that Chris learned, and can compliance function and audit truly help fraud prevention. 

Link to Amazon: https://amzn.to/3nKtiUz

In this episode, we will be on a hunt to learn how to pick the best AML software. My guest on the show is Oleg Zajac, the co-founder of AML Hunt. Oleg is an experienced AML and compliance professional, currently located in the Czech republic. He is not only the co-founder of AML hunt but also acts as a Head of AML of a financial institution. Before we begin let me say a few words about AML Hunt:  this is a global database of AML and KYC software that can be used as a comparison tool. 

https://amlhunt.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/olehzaiats/

There is something we all use every day - for business and in our personal life. We use this to register for stuff, to communicate, to exchange documents, and more. You probably guessed we will be talking about email and more precisely about its security. Did you know that Business email compromise is one of the most financially damaging online crimes? Phishing, spear phishing, spoofing, whaling, email compromise, malware - all have email nexus.  Guest on the show is Seth Blank- the chief product officer of Valimail. Seth is a serial entrepreneur and startup executive with multiple acquisitions under his belt. He shared with us so many interesting examples about email security and fraudulent tactics. 

To mention briefly about Valimail - it is the global leader in zero-trust email solutions, inventing hosted DMARC in 2015 and introducing DMARC as a Service in 2021. You may ask what DMARC is, well, listen to our conversation with Seth and you will surely find out. Check out the show notes for more information.

https://www.valimail.com/ 

In this episode, we spoke with Angelina Jeyarajah. Angie is a compliance manager in a fintech company in Australia. She has an extensive background in the financial services and payment sectors such as at Australia Wealth & Capital Markets and eNett International, and she brings a unique perspective that looks to find creative solutions to risk and compliance concerns for longstanding and new start-up and fintech businesses. Additionally, she found a way to extend her knowledge and experience to the not-for-profit sector where she has brought her risk, compliance and governance skills to boards and executive management roles in community organizations. We met thanks to one of the compliance time posts and as you will soon learn, together we will work on bringing more interesting content. 

In this episode you will hear what is like to work in a fintech organization. Angie will share her tips and what you need to know to survive in a startup environment. You will also hear Angie's view on compliance in Australia and future trends. So without further ado let's hear from Angie.

Angie's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelina-j-37b629105/

This episode reads from FATF's  Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risks Arising from Migrant Smuggling from March 2022. The episode covers  Part Two:  ML/TF risks, investigations and international cooperation.  

You can read the full report here: https://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/documents/ML-TF-Risks-Arising-from-Migrant-Smuggling.pdf 

Guest on the podcast is the co-founder and CEO of Compliance.ai, Kayvan Alikhani. Kayvan has more than 25 years of experience in enterprise technology and now works in the RegTech industry. We are going to talk about regulations, technology and how to deal with the avalanche of regulatory changes without getting overwhelmed. 

Briefly about Complaince.ai - it's a regulatory change management solution that empowers banks, financial services and insurance companies to proactively manage the growing volume and velocity of regulatory changes as they occur, and makes it simple to implement the correct steps to remain in compliance. Modern RCM by Compliance.ai delivers relevant content with personalized insights, obligation analysis and risk monitoring.

https://www.compliance.ai/

This episode reads from FATF's  Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risks Arising from Migrant Smuggling from March 2022. The episode covers  Part One: Migrant Smuggling routes, flows and networks.  

You can read the full report here: https://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/documents/ML-TF-Risks-Arising-from-Migrant-Smuggling.pdf

Matt Kunkel, the CEO and co-founder of LogicGate, spoke on Compliance Time about Governance, Risk, and Compliance programs and the connections with ESG or Environmental, Social, and Governance. 

Hear out about the trends in GRC, can blockchain technology help, what are the emerging risks, and more.

About our guest: Matt Kunkel is the CEO and Co-Founder at LogicGate, a SaaS platform that operationalizes Regulatory, Risk & Compliance programs for organizations. 

Prior to LogicGate, he spent over a decade in the management consulting space building technology solutions to operationalize regulatory, risk, and compliance programs for Fortune 250 companies. It was during this time he learned the skills to realize his true calling: building world-class companies that meaningfully affect the lives of others through user-friendly technology.

Connect with Matt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-kunkel-91056143/

Visit LogicGate's site: https://www.logicgate.com/

This episode is on export controls and our guest is Donald Pearce. The recording was made prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine when new sanctions and export controls were introduced, and surely we will try to have a separate discussion with Donald on that. 

Donald Pearce is a retired Special Agent from the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security and a subject matter expert in strategic trade control policy, transactional criminal investigations, and national security issues. He provides real-world solutions and guidance to companies and governments on security and compliance strategies, due diligence research, and successfully implementing and navigating multilateral trade controls.

Before his retirement in 2020, Don served as the acting Unit Chief for Liaison and Interdiction, providing subject matter expertise to international organizations, other government agencies, and industry worldwide. His career included prosecuting precedent-setting cases, establishing the Regional Export Control Officer position at the US Embassy in Singapore, coordinating successful interdictions of dangerous goods, and protecting the international supply chain through successful public/private cooperative efforts.

Mr. Pearce received the Commerce Department Gold Medal for his role in a complex criminal investigation that dismantled an Iranian procurement network that provided components for use in improvised explosive devices. Mr. Pearce was awarded the Commerce Department Silver Medal for investigative excellence and the US Department of Justice Executive Assistant Attorney General’s Award as a case agent in the PPG Industries investigation, which uncovered a conspiracy to supply specialty coatings for an unauthorized nuclear end-use in Pakistan. The case resulted in record-setting fines and a guilty plea by a Chinese state-owned enterprise, a first in US jurisprudence. He has also been awarded the Commerce Department Gold Medal for his participation in protection operations for the Secretary of Commerce during his 2003 visits to Iraq and Afghanistan and a Bronze Medal recognizing his significant contributions to the Export Control Officer program.

Additionally, Donald is not only a dynamic public speaker who has delivered keynote addresses, case studies, and panel presentations worldwide to various audiences. He has developed training scenarios based on actual events, acted as emcee and moderator in various government and private programs, and most recently delivered content via virtual conferences and small group appearances.

Further, Don established Sentinel LLC to provide guidance that keeps companies safe, compliant, and prosperous. You can subscribe to Sentinel's newsletter here: paper.li/sentinel.llc

Torres Trade Advisory: www.torrestradeadvisory.com
Sentinel LLC- www.sentinelllc.net

Our guest in this episode is Marijo Samneh - a Lebanese legal, compliance, and anti-money laundering officer with a focus on banking and financial matters. In her 10 years career, Marijo worked as the head of compliance in a Lebanese financial institution, and a leading Lebanese subsidiary of a Swiss private bank where she established the compliance department from the ground up. Marijo prepared all policies and procedures of the compliance department and oversaw the implementation of various strategic, operational, and regulatory processes. In her experience, Marijo also worked as the head of legal and compliance in the Association of Banks in Lebanon which is a professional association established by Lebanese banks. During her time at the Association, she contributed to the preparation of various banking legislation and coordinated their discussions with the various stakeholders such as the government, banks, and AML regulators. 
Today she is the primary contact with Lebanese regulators at Arab Bank Switzerland, she handles all the Bank's strategic development plans and all legal/regulatory interactions between the branch and parent company. 
She holds a Law degree, a Masters in Banking and FInancia from Sagesse University Beirut, a Masters in management from the Ecole Superieure des Affaire Beirut, and an Executive education "Program for Leadership Development" from Harvard Business School. She is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist. 
She is the creator of an amazing project called "In a Nutshell by MJ" which aims to make complex AML and financial crime topics easy to understand by anyone. 

MJ's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marijo-samneh/
In A Nutshell YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC1vE6xufjh5hFPS55tFeuw 

Today's episode is on one of the topics that we bring from last year into the new one - cybercrime. With ransomware on the rise, business accounts compromise, and malicious attacks, compliance professionals are more and more looking into learning about cybercrime, and how do cybercriminals act. In this episode, we spoke with Matt Cooper, a cyber security and data privacy principal at Vanta. Vanta helps companies by automating security monitoring for compliance certifications such as SOC2 and HIPAA, as well as GDPR compliance. You can see more on their website which I will add to the show notes.

As a side note, this is a long-overdue episode that Matt and I recorded last summer but I promise, I have a good reason to be so late with it.

Amazon Weekly Learning Planner: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NH39XQL
Vanta: https://www.vanta.com/

October is cybercrime awareness month and to take part in it, we recorded not one, but two cybercrime episodes! 

In this episode guest is Corey White, the CEO and co-founder of Cyvatar. Corey White is a proven security industry veteran with more than twenty-five years of success building and implementing security strategies and leading consulting teams. His work encompasses virtually every industry, including government, high tech, hospitality, critical infrastructure, finance, healthcare, and manufacturing. 

Cyvatar was founded in 2019 in response to the lack of remediation in the cybersecurity industry. Corey incorporated the industry’s first membership-based, cybersecurity-as-a-service model as a commitment to the ever-changing security needs of companies.

Website: https://cyvatar.ai/

In today's episode, we have a new book in focus called "Illicit Money: Financing terrorism in the 21st century". We spoke with the author - Jessica Davis, president of Insight Threat Intelligence. Jessica had an 18-year career in the Canadian government, with senior analytic roles at Canada’s financial intelligence unit, FINTRAC and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. She now works to bring evidence-based solutions to the private and public sectors to counter illicit financing and terrorism. Follow her on social media and subscribe to the amazing Insight Intelligence newsletter. 

Amazon book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1626379823/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1

Publisher's site: https://www.rienner.com/title/Illicit_Money_Financing_Terrorism_in_the_Twenty_First_Century 

Jessica's Twitter: @jessmarindavis

Read the blog and subscribe to Insight Threat Intelligence newsletter: https://www.insightthreatintel.com/ 

This episode is on trade compliance and our guest is Jochen Vankerckhoven. Jochen is a young compliance professional who loves to search for better ways to communicate compliance. He first struggled with the communication part of his job when making the switch from lawyer to in-house counsel, so he looked for better insights and tools on compliance communication. He likes to share his findings with small compliance teams. He is even building right now a course on compliance communication. You can check out more on his website www.jochenv.me and follow him on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jochenvankerckhoven/

The books mentioned in the episode

-  "Fully Compliant" of Travis Waugh

-  "The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance" of Benjamin Van Rooij and Daniel Sokol

-  "Building a story brand" of Donald Miller

-   "You’re invited"  of Jon Levy

In this episode, our guest is Alexander Dill. You may remember him from season 1. Alexander has worked in the finance industry since 1986. He is a lecturer in the University of Chicago’s Financial Mathematics Program and at the UCLA School of Law. Before joining UCLA in 2019, he was a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Compliance in Financial Markets at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. He spent most of his career at Moody’s Investors Service where he was Head of Global Covenant Research. 

In this episode, we will talk about Alexander's newly published book "Anti-Money laundering Regulation and Compliance". You will hear his views on the 2020 AML Act, information sharing, and AI, as well as concepts from the book such as the pyramid of AML/CTF regulatory expectations, and the compliance paradox. 

Resources:

"Anti-Money Laundering Regulation and Compliance": https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1788974859/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1

"The Transformative Role of “National AML Priorities” for Compliance in the AML Act of 2020": https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/the-transformative-role-of-national-aml-9153899/. 

ACAMS Today: https://www.acamstoday.org/four-ways-the-amla-will-reduce-compliance-risk-and-costs/

The guest on Compliance Time podcast in this episode is Nick Turner and we will talk about sanctions - a topic which we have not yet covered on the show. 

Nick is Of Counsel at Steptoe & Johnson in Hong Kong, where he specializes in economic sanctions, international regulation, and compliance. Prior to joining Steptoe, he served as a regional sanctions compliance officer, based in Hong Kong, for a US-based multinational financial institution, after completing the bank’s two-year compliance management associate program in New York and California.

In 2020, he was named to the Global Investigations Review (GIR) list of "40 Under 40" global investigations specialists. Nick is a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops throughout Asia and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). He also publishes a weekly summary of sanctions news and commentary on LinkedIn and Medium. You can find the links in the show notes. 

Links to the books mentioned during the podcast:

https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/juan-zarate/treasurys-war/9781610391160/

https://www.amazon.com/Treasurys-War-Unleashing-Financial-Warfare/dp/1610391152

https://globalinvestigationsreview.com/guide/the-guide-sanctions/first-edition 

Links to Sanctions Top-5 and Nick:

Meduim: https://nicholaswturner.medium.com/sanctions-top-5-index-8f8098de6753

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholaswturner/detail/recent-activity/posts/

This is a slightly different episode from what we usually do. We sat down with Oonagh van den Berg, the founder of RAW compliance, and we just had an awesome discussion about compliance. We both shared pieces of our stories and experiences with compliance, we spoke about diversity, culture, goals and KPIs, mentorship, and more. 

More about my guest, Oonagh, she is an award-winning Compliance Officer with over 18 years of experience in a range of fields in financial services. Oonagh has built and led various compliance risk frameworks and teams across the industry and developed and maintained regulatory and industry body relationships. 

She is also the founder of the global compliance community platform RAW Compliance. RAW Compliance is helping compliance professionals develop new skills, learn from experts, collaborate, network and try new initiatives.

https://www.rawcompliance.com/ 

In this episode you will hear about the connection between suspicious activity reports and asset recovery, and what does asset recovery need. Also, what can we learn from crypt assets and do they provide a blueprint? 

Guest on Compliance Time is Aidan Larkin - the Founder of Asset Reality Ltd. He is a former Criminal Investigator for Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs, and has over 10 years financial investigation experience including tracing and realizing assets seized under proceeds of crime and insolvency legislation. Throughout his career he ran the world's first series of seized crypto auctions and managed a multi-million pound portfolio of criminal’s seized and confiscated assets spread around the world.  His background in asset recovery also includes presenting to global regulators and representing the private sector in front of intergovernmental agencies such as OECD, UN, FATF and EU Commission on best practices in seized asset management. Aidan works with law enforcement agencies and governments directly on an advisory basis and continues to act as asset management consultant on some of the worlds largest and most high profile fraud and corruption cases managing and realizing assets on agencies behalf. 

He remains a visiting lecturer for a number of overseas academies and universities and is a highly sought after guest speaker at events in international asset recovery, asset management best practices and storage & sale of crypto currencies. He also delivers asset management training to government agencies around the world. 

https://www.assetreality.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidan-larkin-29810781?originalSubdomain=uk

In this episode our guest is Erica Stanford - a serial entrepreneur in the cryptocurrency space. She launched "Cryptocurrency Simplified" in 2017, a leading educational platform that provides information on cryptocurrency, blockchain, tokenization and future tech in easy to understand language. Following that, she also launched and now runs the UK's biggest and most recommended crypto networking and events organization, Crypto Curry Club. She is also the author of a book "Crypto Wars: Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption". This book shows how market-wide manipulation schemes, unregulated processes and a new collection of technologies that are often misunderstood, have been exploited to create the wild west of crypto, run by some less than reputable characters. From OneCoin to PonziCoin to Trumpcoin and everything in between, Crypto Wars uncovers the scandals, unpicks the system behind them and allows you to better understand a new technology that has the potential to revolutionize banking and our world for the better.

You can get 20% off from the book if you order from KoganPagewww.koganpage.comusing code CRYPTOWARS20

Links:

https://www.koganpage.com/product/crypto-wars-9781398600683

https://www.cryptocurryclub.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Crypto-Wars-Billions-Industry-Disruption/dp/1398600687

In this episode we are asking are we ready to experiment with compliance in order to make it better and more efficient? Can we implement different ways and use tools from other areas of business which would inspire compliance within the firm? 

In this episode we are going to explore the connection between compliance and behavior science. Guest on the podcast is Christian Hunt - the founder of Human Risk, a Behavioural Science led Consulting and Training Firm, specialising in the fields of Ethics & Compliance. He was formerly Managing Director at UBS where he was Head of Behavioural Science. Christian joined the Firm in Compliance & Operational Risk Control, leading the function globally for UBS Asset Management. Prior to joining UBS, he was COO of the UK Prudential Regulation Authority, a subsidiary of the Bank of England responsible for regulating financial services.

Christian speaks and writes regularly about Behavioural Science and human risk. He also hosts and produces the Human Risk podcast - you must check that out! Links will be in the show notes. 

Website is www.human-risk.com

Twitter account is @humanriskltd

LinkedIn is www.linkedin.com/in/humanrisk

In this episode we will talk about insider trading - how it happens, how do people rationalize it and how compliance can help. Our guest sharing his experience with us is Tom Hardin. 

Tom Hardin previously spent much of his career as a financial analyst in the U.S. In 2008, as part of a cooperation agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, Tom assisted the U.S. government in understanding how insider trading occurred in the financial services industry.

Known as “Tipper X,” Tom became one of the most prolific informants in securities fraud history, helping to build over 20 of the 80+ individual criminal cases in “Operation Perfect Hedge,” a Wall Street house cleaning campaign that morphed into the largest insider trading investigation of a generation. As the youngest professional implicated in the sting, Tom was tasked with wearing a covert body wire on over 40 occasions to help the FBI bring down some of its biggest targets in the industry.

Later Tom was invited by the FBI's New York office to speak to their rookie agents in 2016 and is now a global keynote speaker, corporate trainer and board advisor on behavioral ethics, compliance and organizational conduct and culture risk. Through rigorous self-examination, Tom took responsibility for his actions as a young professional, used the experience to transform his life and is now on an on-going journey into human behavior and why we sometimes make the wrong decision.

https://tipperx.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-hardin-0952324/

Guest in this episode is Robert Nordlander - the host of Fraud Fighter podcast, a former special agent 20 years of experience in fraud investigations, forensic accounting and criminal financial investigation.  As part of his career he has seized millions of dollars in assets, real estate, bank accounts, mutual funds, and vehicles by tracing the origins of criminal proceed. He also teaches forensic accounting and investigative techniques in the US and abroad.
So what to expect from the first episode from season 2? 
This episode is full of great real-life examples from Robert's career. He shares some of the tips on how to file an attention grabbing SAR and what do IRS investigators look at first in a SAR. 

Find out more about Robert here:
Website: https://www.fraudfighterpodcast.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-nordlander-cpa-cfe-367203169/

While working on Compliance Time season 2, we prepared for you this episode featuring all the great advices and recommendations of our last year guests on how to be better financial crime professional. 

You will hear once more how to prepare for a career or promotion in compliance, the importance of learning and technology, how to understand risks and regulations.
This 50 minutes episode combines the knowledge of 12 episodes which we recorded in 2020. 
Hope you will like all the tips and advises and that they will be useful in 2021. 

Let’s keep learning together!
Stay tuned for season 2 of Compliance Time. 

Guest of the podcast in episode 23 is Aaron Kahler - the founder of the Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative (ATII). Aaron has more than 15 years experience in the Financial Crimes & Regulatory Compliance Advisory space. The Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative (ATII) is a nonprofit that encourages financial institutions and companies globally to practice corporate social responsibility and implement anti-human trafficking programs within their organizations (such as policies & procedures, training-live/eLearning, red flags & indicators, high risk trafficking data, and more). The organization addresses gaps in the detection, prevention and reporting of corporations & financial institutions around human trafficking in comparison to how other financial crime prevention is prioritized.  They also have partnerships with Federal, State & local law enforcement in the US, as well as agencies and NGO's to support investigations around trafficking, child exploitation, and missing persons. 

We are very happy to share with you news about an upcoming event! This January, ATII will organize its first virtual summit.  In this webinar conference, you can hear more from BSA Officers, Financial Crime Investigators, Regulators & more to promote corporate social responsibility through increasing awareness, facilitating intelligence integration and using strategic data collaboration.

Reserve your FREE ticket now, and follow ATII on LinkedIn - you can find links in the show notes.

Register for the Summit here: https://followmoneyfightslavery.org/SUMMIT/ ; 

ATII's LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1841687/ ;

Aaron's LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronmkahler/ 

ATII's Blog: https://followmoneyfightslavery.org/blog/

Guest of the podcast is Elliott Turner - a compliance professional, based in South Africa, with a passion for wildlife and the natural world. He spent the last 13 years guiding, advising and supporting top tier firms in the Banking, Investment Management and FinTech industries. 
His passion for wildlife and the natural world, has given him the opportunity to help raise awareness of the Illegal Wildlife Trade, which included putting together a webinar series entitled “Wildlife Crime is Financial Crime” with Navigate Compliance and the International Compliance Association (ICA).  In this episode we discuss the webinar series, and IWT as an issue, including red flags, statistics, prominent themes and how financial compliance professionals can help to deter and disrupt IWT. 

Connect with Elliott on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliott-turner/
Resources
1. Wildlife Crime is Financial Crime webinar series
Day 1: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/2623482433003964939
Day 2: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/5351984309048759819
Day 3: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/1357372803542174210
Day 4: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/2445831040968379907
2. Financial Action Task Force (FAFT) Paper on Money Laundering and the IWT:  http://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/documents/Money-laundering-and-illegal-wildlife-trade.pdf
3. Targeting Natural Resource Corruption: https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/tnrc-topic-brief-targeting-corruption-and-its-proceeds
4.  WWF Living Planet Report: https://livingplanet.panda.org/en-za/
5. TRAFFIC: The people beyond the poaching: Interviews with convicted wildlife offenders in South Africa:  https://www.traffic.org/publications/reports/the-people-beyond-the-poaching/
6. United for Wildlife:  https://unitedforwildlife.org 
7. ESAAMLG special typologies report:https://esaamlg.org/reports/TYPOLOGIES-REPORT-ON-THE-WILDLIFE-CRIMES-AND-RELATED-ML..pdf
8. ACAMS Certificate - Ending IWT: https://www.acams.org/en/training/certificates/ending-illegal-wildlife-trade
9. Manchester CF Certificate - Wildlife Trafficking:  https://manchestercf.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/fiu-connect-wildlife-trafficking
10. IWT related documentaries: The Ivory Game - ttps://www.netflix.com/za/title/80117533
Sea of Shadows (about the Vaquita) - https://films.nationalgeographic.com/sea-of-shadows
Stroop - https://www.stroop-film.com
Virunga - https://virungamovie.com
11. The Global Initiative to End Wildlife Crime: 

In this episode guest is Stephen Brent Sargent from Canada. 
You may have already seen the amazing content he creates on LinkedIn and not only; or maybe you have met him on events, including his own "Ask Me Anything". He is also the creator of We Are On a Break podcast. 
On top of being a cryptocurrency compliance expert, Stephen is also sharing his tips on networking and personal branding. He is a world-class connector, and helps finding top talent in the Cryptocurrency and Traditional AML industry. 
This is an episode on personal branding and how to stand out from the crowd. As you will heard from Stephen - applying for jobs is easy, but actually doing the work to show your unique skills and brand is something that can really make difference. Additionally, this episode will have you thinking if you defined your dream job and how does that look like for you? 
Connect with Stephen on his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-brent-sargeant-cams 

Guest in the Episode is Alexander Dill - a Chicago-based scholar, university and in-house instructor, and advisor specializing in financial regulation, model risk management, and general risk management and compliance. He teaches at top US universities: at UCLA, in the School of Law and Anderson School of Management, and in the University of Chicago’s Financial Mathematics Program. His courses span a broad range of areas involving the financial markets – banking and capital markets regulation, corporate governance and risk management, model risk management, and compliance in financial institutions. He provides in-house instruction to and advises financial firms on trends in financial regulation and issues specific to their business.

As a compliance officer at Moody's Investors Service, Alexander designed their ratings compliance function in 2003 following the Enron and other accounting scandals that had resulted in multi-notch downgrades. With professional experience in Moody's and the SEC, the Securities and Exchange Commission in the US, Alexadnder's research and writing focus is on the intersection of the capital markets and the banking system and their regulatory and supervisory frameworks from an economic perspective.

Resources which were discussed in the episode:

Link to Bank Regulation, Risk Management, and Compliance: Theory, Practice, and Key Problem Areas (Practical Finance and Banking Guides) - https://amzn.to/3fn6kOe

Alexander's website: http://financialmarketreg.com/ 

Alexander's LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderdill/ 

A free chapter from Alexander's book: https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780367367497_oachapter6.pdf

Financial Times Op Ed article: https://www.ft.com/content/cf30bc50-1c2c-11ea-81f0-0c253907d3e0

The Goldman's 1MDB scandal reflects highly skewed priorities and norms in tone at the top article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/goldmans-1mdb-scandal-reflects-highly-skewed-priorities-dill/?trackingId=97RG3A3lTL63ou%2Biz3XPuQ%3D%3D

Compliance Time has now 19 episodes! Guest of the podcast in Episode 19 is Greg Pinn from Merlon.ai and our conversation will be all about adverse media screening. Greg has spent the last 12 years building AML and KYC products and services for financial institutions around the globe. During his time in compliance, he has run product and strategy operations for a variety of compliance vendors, including the World-Check product line at Thomson Reuters (now Refinitiv) and a number of RegTech startups.  While he has spent over a decade working across AML, including sanctions, PEPs, screening, and transaction monitoring, he now runs product and strategy for Merlon.ai, focusing his efforts on adverse media screening.

What about Merlon? Merlon is revolutionizing adverse media investigations for AML, KYC, and due diligence by automating the tedious, repetitive process of finding, organizing, and reading articles.  Through its advanced AI and Natural Language Processing engines, Merlon separates relevant and irrelevant articles, understands article context, and determines the subject’s involvement, allowing analysts to review consolidated findings instead of long lists of articles.  Merlon's global team of experts is dedicated to making the world a safer place by leveraging the power of AI to fight financial crime.

Check out Merlon here: https://merlon.ai/ 
Connect with Greg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregpinn/
And remember to subscribe for Compliance Time updates on our website www.cmpltime.com also, we count on your 5-star review so more people can find the podcast.

Our guest today is Sujata Dasgupta - the Global Head for Financial Crimes Compliance Advisory in Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. I had the pleasure to be a co-panelist with Sujata on an ACFCS webinar "Making the case for Ongoing KYC". We connected after the webinar and decided to create an amazing new Compliance Time episode together - check out the webinar recording at www.cmpltime.com

Sujata is an accomplished thought leader,  author, columnist and speaker, and is regularly interviewed by reputed international journals for her analysis and opinions on contemporary topics in this area. She has over 20 years of experience, having worked extensively in the areas of KYC, Sanctions, AML and Fraud across banking operations, IT services and consulting. She has had a rich global exposure through her work with premier banks in several major financial hubs, viz. New York, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Frankfurt and Nordics.

Sujata's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sujata-dasgupta-69473a20/ 

Column in Corporate Compliance Insights: https://www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com/ 

Fintech Futures - https://www.fintechfutures.com/ 

Financier Worldwide - https://www.financierworldwide.com/ 

Risk & Compliance Magazine - https://riskandcompliancemagazine.com/ 

In this episode we will explore some projects related to people who want to start their career in compliance or move within the field. People are one of the most important resources for financial institutions. However, to get started in compliance or to shift within the different fields is getting increasingly more difficult. 

But our guest Ruzaan Karwa knows how to help! 

Ruzaan manages a team of Anti Money Laundering investigators for the Financial Intelligence Unit at one of the big 5 banks in Canada and has working experience in different compliance fields such as Transaction Monitoring, Enhanced Due Diligence, Correspondent Banking, Name Screening, Corporate Banking, and Sanctions.

He is also a Chief Volunteer Mentor for the Visionary Advisory Community. He trains newcomers, students, and foreign professionals via the Canadian Banking Mentorship Program to get their foot in the banking doors. He also is the founder of AML Enthusiasts that provides training sessions for folks seeking AML as a career.

During his 12+ years of work experience, he has earned more than 11 awards, with the most recent recognition - AML Professional of the Month award from the Association for Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) in May 2020.

He loves to assist job seekers and is always open to having a virtual cup of coffee.

Connect with Ruzaan on Linkedin:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruzaankarwa/

Join LinkedIn group AML Enthusiasts: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13866081

Follow Visionary Advisory Community on https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/company/visionary-advisory-community

In this episode guest in Compliance Time is Mari Liis Kurg - the CEO and co-founder of Complok - a firm dedicated to deliver professional training and strategic compliance advisory. Mari-Liis is a Financial Compliance Expert specialising in Financial Crime Prevention. With over 14 years of experience in the heavily regulated financial sector, she is a recognized expert in anti-money laundering, KYC, combating financing of terrorism and economic sanctions compliance. She has counselled clients in a variety of projects, and managed gap analyses, compliance program reviews, risk assessments, remediation efforts, investigations, and historical transaction reviews. Her client base include large, complex, global financial institutions, medium-sized banks, Fintech and digital assets companies, casinos, and multinational corporations. Mari-Liis has held interim senior compliance leadership positions at several regional Financial Institutions providing day-to-day management of their compliance programs and assisting them with remediation efforts, often in the context of a regulatory or criminal enforcement action.

You can find and connect with Mari-Liis on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mari-liis-kurg-816ba3131/ 
Also you can read here article "Money laundering is facing a major paradigm shift" here: https://www.complok.eu/post/money-laundering-is-facing-a-major-paradigm-shift 

Today's guest in the podcast is James Treacy - co-founder and managing director of the AML Intelligence website. AML Intelligence has offices in Brussels and Dublin and provides a broad range of information, news and services for the global AML executive community. Additionally, James is CEO at StubbsGazette, one of the oldest continuous credit bureaus in the world. He is also one of the founders of the International Fraud Prevention Conference (IFPC), the fincrime and cybersecurity convention.
James mentions a new method used by money launderers involving courts. We discuss briefly the FinCEN leaks and their impact. Also, is financial crime profession the profession of the next decade?

Check out AML intelligence website and follow them on LinkedIn. 
https://amlintelligence.com/ ;
https://www.linkedin.com/company/amlintelligence/?originalSubdomain=ie ;
The article on BitCoin: https://amlintelligence.com/2020/09/new-research-sheds-light-on-using-bitcoin-as-a-laundering-channel/ 

News, reports and reading through various sources is essential part from the compliance profession.
Listen to this episode in which our guest, Dev Odedra, explains about the creation of The Laundry - a financial crime news and media aggregator. Dev has significant experience in managing financial crime risk in the retail, corporate and investment banking sectors, having worked at a number of global banks. His expertise covers investigations, advisory and controls implementation and improvement.

Visit https://thelaundrynews.com/home/ and stay tuned with the highlights from the AML and financial crime world!

In this episode Compliance Time guest is Kelly Paxton and we talk all about pink collar crimes. We will discuss some key characteristics of pink collar crimes and why they are different from white collar crime. The episode is also mentioning some real world examples from Kelly's experience. 
Kelly Paxton is a Certified Fraud Examiner, Private Investigator and she speaks regularly on women and embezzlement. Kelly is known as the Pink Collar Crime expert. Previously, Kelly specialized in white collar crime, narcotics and undercover operations. Embezzlement by trusted employees, workplace investigations, background investigations of employees, due diligence, open source intelligence, and civil matters involving litigation support are all types of cases Kelly Paxton has experience with.

She regularly blogs on pink collar crime and you can read more on her website: pinkcollarcrime.com
Here are some of the resources mentioned in the episode:

The Honest Truth about Dishonesty by Dan Ariely -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062183613/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062183613&linkCode=as2&tag=cmpltime-20&linkId=8ea232b77346ee1b4c0234f7899a24dc 
The story of Bernice Geiger - https://www.nytimes.com/1966/07/01/archives/iowa-woman-who-robbed-fathers-bank-to-be-paroled.html

Guest in episode 12 is Beata Wisnicka. She is an AML and cryptocurrency consultant based in Warsaw, Poland. 

Beata develops AML processes and procedures for various clients in different places. She is advising on AML regulations and assists her clients with blocked transfers. She is also an experienced trainer and speaker educating compliance staff. Beata was a speaker at several AML events and is an Ambassador at Blockchain Girls and a Mentor in Shesnnovation program called Perspectives Women in Tech. Recently Beata started recording amazing educational YouTube videos and writes blog posts to raise awareness of different financial scams.
Find out more about her in her site and don't forget to watch the Tinder YouTube video
https://www.beatawisnicka.com/blog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ASK_GWZonU

This episode is about sustainable compliance, AI and technology. Our guest Shub Nandi is the Co-founder & CEO Of PiChain and he is on a quest to achieve Sustainable compliance for 500 Entities by 2025. He has more than 10 years of experience in building and selling software for Finance and Regulatory Compliance Management. At PiChain Shub provides organisational leadership with his unique combination of business understanding and technical acumen. And to tell you a bit more about PiChain: This is an ISO certified RegTech company helping banks, financial institutions and Fintechs attain sustainable AML compliance. PiChain fights the global cause against illicit finance with technology and it is backed by the likes of Rolls-Royce, F10 and InnovationQore.

https://www.pichainlabs.com/

This is a special episode as it's not only the 10th episode for the past three months but also for the first time we are having more than one guest with us today. Our guests Martin and Matthew are both working at the award-winning technology company Silent Eight which mission is to stop financial crime. As you will hear today they are very passionate about financial crime prevention plus they are experts in Artificial Intelligence which is an amazing formula leading to the development of a solution that improves global financial institutions due dillige. 

One of our guests is Martin Markiewicz - the founder and CEO of Silent Eight. With an educational background in mathematics, Martin is a serial entrepreneur and self-described "problem solver". Prior to Silent Eight, Martin launched several successful startups in Europe and Asia, including a hydropower startup that saw a successful IPO. With his 16 years of experience in software and artificial intelligence solutions covering a wide range of applications, Martin has taken the challenge of helping banks outsmart financial criminals and money launderers, who are gaming their transaction systems, head-on.

Also, we have Matthew Leaney - based in New York, he is the Chief Revenue Officer of Silent Eight. As CRO, he oversees all aspects of growth and is constantly seeking new avenues for Silent Eight's award-winning AI to aid organizations in their fight against money laundering and financial crime. Matthew volunteers with a number of charities principally focused on advancing underprivileged youth.

https://silenteight.com/
https://silenteight.com/newsroom/

Guest in episode 9 is Timothy Lloyd - he is a journalist contributor to Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence, specialising in anti-money laundering and computer-based financial crime. He is based in Austin, Texas. Today we will discuss his findings from the BlueLeaks files. Since this is a new, dynamic and topic still in development, in the show notes you will find some of his articles on the topic. 

You can find his work on BlueLeaks here:
https://www.reuters.com/article/bc-finreg-fbi-laundering-private-equity/fbi-concerned-over-laundering-risks-in-private-equity-hedge-funds-leaked-document-idUSKCN24F1TP

https://decrypt.co/34740/blueleaks-how-the-fbi-tracks-bitcoin-laundering-on-the-dark-web

https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/us-and-russia-spar-over-accused-crypto-launderer

https://blogs.thomsonreuters.com/answerson/panama-papers-fine-art-money-laundering/

The substantial experience of Stephen Scott in financial crime and money laundering investigations is so captivating. In this episode he shares with us his experience and many cases. We are talking about drug trafficking, PEPs, and wildlife trafficking. You can hear about so many red flags as part of the investigation of such money laundering schemes. 
Further, we talk about Stephen's recommendations for books and movies about financial crimes, and his perspective on future trends in AML and compliance. 

Remember to subscribe for email updates on www.cmpltime.com. We are also preparing exciting new content that will bring even more value!

Guest Bio

Stephen is currently the sole proprietor of S SCOTT (AML) and Security Consulting. In his role as consultant he works with the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network of Southern Africa (ARINSA), also working with Alberta Credit Unions and the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service. He retired from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) after 31 years. Stephen specialized in managing and investigating money laundering, organized crime, financial crime and terrorist financing investigations for approximately 24 years. In 2016, he served as a Project Manager in Tanzania as part of a team that provided police training to officers with what is now referred to as the Drug Control Enforcement Authority (DCEA).

Stephen is a public speaker at many AML events in Canada, as well as a designer and facilitator of courses. As an example, at the Canadian Police College he facilitates courses on “Drafting Information to Obtain Search Warrants” and on the “Expert Witness Course”. He served as the Southern Alberta Liaison to the CBSA, FINTRAC and as the Alberta Civil Forfeiture “gatekeeper.” and he is also a member of the RCMP National Expert Witness Program. 

You can connect with Stephen in LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-scott-58473848/

This episode focuses on a different perspective of learning and building competitive advantages for compliance professionals. Guest in the show is Dr. Ian Messenger - he is currently teaching several financial crime courses at universities and colleges in Canada. 
Website: www.drianmessenger.com

Course website: www.drianmessenger.com/seneca-college-certificate-in-financial-crimes-prevention-and-mitigation / www.senecacollege.ca/programs/fulltime/FNC100.html

If you have questions about the course, don't miss Friday 10th July 2020 - there will be Ask the Instructor session in which you can learn more about the certificate and ask any questions that you have. Follow the link in show notes.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ask-the-instructor-financial-crimes-prevention-and-mitigation-certificate-tickets-107090725242?utm_campaign=post_publish&utm_content=EBLinkEvent&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite&utm_term=fullLink

In this episode guest in Compliance Time is Jeffrey Robinson. The episode has many stories from the compliance field. We discuss the very beginning of Jeffrey's start in money laundering investigations for his bestseller book, the Laundrymen. Then going forward, he shares his experience involving offshore jurisdictions, cryptocurrency and other money laundering stories. Finally, the episode concludes with tips on storytelling which can be applied by any compliance professional.
If you want to read more about Jeffrey and get his books, visit http://www.jeffreyrobinson.com/

In this episode you can hear more about the experience of our guest Souzan Esmaili, the creator of Toronto Compliance and AML Events community. She is an expert in networking, compliance and has an inspiring story. Don't miss out on all the exciting initiatives she is leading.

Find our more here:
TCAE Website: www.tcae.ca
TCAE LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tcae/
Souzan's LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/souzanesmaili/

Guest in episode 4 is Bjorn Bjercke. Together we discussed his recently published paper "Decoupling Bitcoins from Their Transaction History Using the Coinbase Transaction", you can read the paper here: http://rettit.no/mrbitcoin/coinbase-transaction-laundering.pdf
You can find more about our guest here: http://rettit.no/mrbitcoin/index.php?title=English

In this episode guest in the podcast is Teresa Anaya. The episode focuses on cryptocurrency as we talk about the Cryptocurrency Training Academy, and the fascinating experience of Ms. Anaya.
Do you feel you need to know more about cryptocurrencies? Will we see a raise in money laundering and fraudulent transactions involving crypto? 

Link to the Cryptocurrency Training Academy webpage: https://www.cryptoinvestigatortraining.com/
LinkedIn profile of Teresa Anaya: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teresaanaya/

This week Compliance Time jumps from Canada to EMEA to discuss different ways of learning with our guest Maureen Mutua. 

Here you can find more details for our guest:
Website – https://maureenmutua.com

ADESA - https://adesa.y-org.com/wp/

Global Publications by Maureen Mutua 

2018

Interviewed by the Italian Transatlantic Magazine :

Interview title - Money Laundering Central to Numerous Criminal Activities. 

Interview in English: https://bit.ly/2NgiKbW  

and Italian https://bit.ly/2NfQoyB 

Article for Soapbox Magazine - AML trends for 2018 -  https://bit.ly/2D8Eenb

2019

Articles Published on the Soapbox Magazine :

2019 Trends for Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing - https://bit.ly/2F4kQZG

Biggest KYC Failures In 2018 To Avoid In 2019 - https://bit.ly/2T9Afgb

Published Books 

1.      Mastering Anti-Money Laundering: : What I have Learned About Dirty Money and What You Need to Know - https://amzn.to/34NJrhX

2.      Risk Hacks, 18 Hacks for Burned-Out Risk & Compliance Managers, A Playbook for Risk Managers - https://amzn.to/3anSW8C

3.      Currently working on - “The Untold Stories of Financial Crime” – “First-hand accounts from more than 50 financial crime experts from 30 countries”. The book will be about accounts from financial crime experts, her analysis of their experiences and recommendations - to be published in May 2020 on Amazon. 

Follow her on Social Media 

LinkedIn – https://bit.ly/2P4pXfC 

Medium page - https://bit.ly/2P1KkdX

Twitter - https://twitter.com/mmm_maureen

In the first episode of Compliance Time we are having a chat about financial crime investigations, how to be creative and how to socialize with compliance experts around the globe.

Follow the FinCrime investigator YouTube Channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS-fsFKLywrBPsS__Ej-8Uw
Connect with Jennifer Ford-Smith on LinkedIn here: 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferfordsmith/
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