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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

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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 

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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/ 

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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!

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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

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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

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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/

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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/

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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/

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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. 

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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/

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