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Episode 56 February 10, 2023
In conversation with Alia Mahmud, ComplyAdvantage
- Challenges faced by compliance professionals on a day-to-day basis
- Challenges associated with Metaverse
- Risk indicators of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Crimes
- Use of technology to improve the quality of reporting by financial institutions

Episode 55 January 6, 2023
In conversation with Robin Lee, Napier
- Robin’s career path and his experience
- Key issues faced by compliance officers in the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) industry
- Importance of technology in improving quality of reporting, keeping bad actors at bay and making financial institutions more compliant
- Factors that make a financial institution’s AML compliance programme more effective
- Outlook for 2023 for AML technology deployment

Episode 54 December 9, 2022
In conversation with Nithi Genesan
- AML/CFT governance prevalent in the APAC banking and financial services industry
- The Monetary Authority of Singapore guidance on enhancing the robustness of Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessment in ML/TF
- Risks emerging due to the increasing shift to digital banking
- Non face-to-face customer due diligence
- Process outsourcing of AML and KYC by regulated entities
- Building in additional red flag indicators for virtual currencies

Episode 53 November 25, 2022
In conversation with Maria Nizzero, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
- RUSI’s latest research on the Illicit Finance Threat to Democracies
- Transatlantic response to illicit finance

Episode 52 October 21, 2022
In conversation with Lakshmi Kumar and Mark Nuttall
- The changing structure of supply chains due to various recent geo-political incidents
- How these changes are affecting global trade
- The consequence on the money laundering and terrorist financing risks
- How regulators, banks and financial institutions should prepare

Episode 51 March 11, 2022
In conversation with Chrisol Correia
- Evolution of the financial crime compliance
- Benefits of technology for smaller institutions
- Regulatory expectations around risks and controls
- Collaborative analytics
- Information sharing
- Inter-institutional collaboration for multi-directional informational sharing

Episode 50 November 19, 2021
In conversation with Tadeo Jun Claravall, The Financial Crimes
- Jun’s background
- The motivation behind writing the book: Financial Crime Fighters
- A summary of the book: Financial Crime Fighters
- Ideal characteristics in a financial crime fighter
- Impact of organizational culture on a financial crime fighter

Episode 49 October 1, 2021
In conversation with Peter Piatetsky, Castellum.AI
- Creation of Castellum.AI
- Changes in the nature of sanctions being levied
- Successes of Global Sanctions Policies
- Situation in Afghanistan
- Report: When Sanctions violates human rights
- US-China Sanctions Conflict

Episode 48 September 17, 2021
In conversation with Ross Delston, Attorney & Expert Witness
- Achievements of the global community in combating TBML and challenges to be overcome
- Detecting and preventing organized criminal activity
- Impact of the new laws in AML
- Impact of tightening of regulation and greater transparency