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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 

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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/

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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/

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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/ 

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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

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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/

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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/

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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/ 

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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

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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 KoganPage www.koganpage.com using 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

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