Episodes

  • It's a grey(list) area
    Feb 9 2026

    Today we tackle some colourful risk lists or, to be a bit more precise, some black and grey ones, along with some strange differentials.

    Like how come the UK has a high risk third country list when there are no second countries in sight?

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    24 mins
  • Crime on the high street - part two
    Jan 9 2026

    In the second of a two part, end of year podcast, we continue to explain how we helped with a major BBC investigation into crime on the high street, involving the sale of illicit cigarettes and vapes, modern human slavery, people trafficking, tax evasion, corruption and money laundering.

    In this episode, undercover filming unearths a shocking story and we explain our part in finding some of the protagonists involved.

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    13 mins
  • Crime on the high street - part one
    Dec 29 2025

    In the first of a two part, end of year episode, we explain how we helped with a major BBC investigation into crime on the high street, involving the sale of illicit cigarettes and vapes, modern human slavery, people trafficking, tax evasion, corruption and money laundering.

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    16 mins
  • A fine fanfare - Coinbase and JP Morgan SE
    Dec 8 2025

    We examine two recent final notices issued by two different regulators relating to two quite different enterprises and find a surprising amount of commonality in their thinking.

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    16 mins
  • The Dark Money Files meets (Episode 1)... The Laundry
    Oct 24 2025

    In the first of a new, occasional series, in which we sit down and chat to fellow anti-financial crime professionals, we kick off with Marit Rødevand from Strise to talk about AI and other new fangled gizmos.

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    29 mins
  • Policing the corporate landscape - the role of The Insolvency Service
    Oct 9 2025

    The UK Insolvency Service does a lot more than just oversee insolvencies and, in a recently published five year strategy document, they outlined some ambitious future goals which we thought were well worth a conversation.

    So we had one!

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    21 mins
  • The highs (and lows) of PEP classifications
    Aug 13 2025

    The FCA recently published new guidance specifically in relation to UK PEPs which we decided needed a closer look. So we did!

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    20 mins
  • Where there's a will...
    Jul 26 2025

    In this episode we explain how we supported a major BBC investigation into a Hungarian organised crime group which was systematically forging wills and stealing the assets belonging to the estate from under the noses of the true beneficiaries.

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    21 mins