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Themis is a specialist financial crime risk management agency. Our goal is to reduce the global impacts of financial crime.
Themis helps clients and members identify and manage their specific financial crime risks, through a combination of innovation, insight and intelligence.
Bringing you interviews and insight from leading investigative journalists, senior business leaders and changemakers who are at the forefront of tackling financial crime.Copyright Themis International Services 2021. All rights reserved
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Episodes
  • Uncertainty, Fraud and Knowledge Gaps
    Jan 7 2026

    In this episode, we unpack how uncertainty, data gaps, and fragmented intelligence are creating new opportunities for financial crime, fraud, and environmental exploitation across global markets.

    Joining the conversation is Emily Hsu, Financial and Environmental Crime Researcher, who explores how weak governance, limited transparency, and uneven access to information allow criminal networks to operate across borders — from illicit supply chains and environmental crime to financial fraud and organised criminal activity.

    The discussion examines how criminals exploit:

    • Knowledge gaps in high-risk jurisdictions
    • Weak regulatory enforcement and oversight
    • Complex global supply chains
    • Limited data sharing between public and private sectors

    We also explore why financial institutions, regulators, and compliance teams must rethink traditional risk assessments — moving beyond static checklists towards intelligence-led, context-driven analysis that reflects real-world risk.

    Subscribe for more expert discussions on financial crime, fraud, corruption, sanctions, and emerging risks!

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    16 mins
  • Burkina Faso & the Cutting Edge of Propaganda
    Dec 22 2025
    How did Burkina Faso become one of the most viral political stories on social media, despite limited internet access at home? In this episode, Henry Wyard, Senior Policy Analyst, and Finlay Taylor, Junior Investigations Analyst, unpack how Burkina Faso has found itself at the forefront of modern disinformation warfare, AI-driven propaganda, and scam ecosystems operating across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and beyond. The discussion explores the global online campaign surrounding military leader Ibrahim Traoré — examining how bot networks, AI-generated videos, deepfakes, click farms and fabricated economic “success stories” are reshaping public perception far beyond West Africa. Key topics covered:
    • How AI has transformed propaganda into scalable, anonymous influence campaigns
    • The role of bots, click farms and astroturfed engagement
    • Fake gold mining claims, deepfake world leaders and AI-generated music propaganda
    • The geopolitical narratives tying Burkina Faso, Russia and anti-Western sentiment
    • Why West Africa’s mineral wealth makes it a strategic disinformation battleground
    • The collapse of democratic norms and the fallout from ECOWAS sanctions
    • How disinformation fuels fraud, scams and financial crime risk
    This episode breaks down how modern propaganda works, why it spreads and what it means for geopolitics, financial crime and global security, using Burkina Faso as a case study in the future of influence operations. Perfect for viewers interested in: Disinformation | AI & propaganda | Financial crime | Cyber-enabled fraud | Geopolitics | Africa security | OSINT | Risk & intelligence Podcast: Burkina Faso & The Cutting Edge of Propaganda Based on analysis by Finlay Taylor Subscribe for more deep-dive investigations into financial crime, risk and global influence operations.
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    19 mins
  • Pig Butchering Investment Scams
    Nov 6 2025
    Themis FinCrime Podcast: Fraud

    Alongside the release of The FinCrime Times, Themis presents a five-part podcast series uncovering the evolving world of fraud, from AI-driven deception to cross-border scam economies.

    Hosted by Henry Wyard, Senior Policy Analyst at Themis, each 20-minute episode dives into one of the magazine’s feature stories, with the authors themselves joining to unpack their research, perspectives and real-world implications. In the first episode, Henry speaks with Jennifer Downie, AI and Fraud Researcher at Themis, about her article ‘Pig Butchering Investment Scams: The Victims on the Other Side of the Bitcoin.’

    Jennifer discusses how these scams intertwine human trafficking, organised crime and emerging technology, revealing the disturbing human cost behind one of the fastest-growing fraud typologies in the world.

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    21 mins
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