Hello, and welcome to episode 82 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. It has been a bumper week for financial crime news again this week, with all areas competing to outperform one another in terms of producing the most volume of material. I think we should just crack on. Sooner we get started, the sooner we can all got on with our lives.

As usual, I have linked the main stories flagged in the podcast in the description. These are:

Counter Ransomware Initiative, CRI joint statement on ransomware payments.

Financial Action Task Force, Public Consultation - FATF Risk-Based Guidance on Recommendation 25.

Financial Conduct Authority, Financial regulator secures confiscation order against convicted CFO.

Financial Action Task Force, Crowdfunding for Terrorism Financing: Report.

HM Treasury, Future financial services regulatory regime for cryptoassets: Response to the consultation and call for evidence.

National Cyber Security Centre, Glossary: A set of straightforward definitions for common cyber security terms used on the NCSC website.

Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Financial Sanctions Notice: Myanmar.

Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury Hardens Sanctions With 130 New Russian Evasion and Military-Industrial Targets.

Payment Systems Regulator, PSR publishes first APP scams performance report.

UK Government, UK and international partners target Myanmar arms dealers and military financiers with new sanctions.

UK Government, Speech: Security Minister speech on fraud and AI.

US Department of Justice, Former Attorney Convicted of Bribery Scheme.

US Department of Justice, Bank Insider Charged with Accepting Bribes to Facilitate Millions of Dollars of Money Laundering.

US Department of State, Designation of Three Guatemalan Public Officials for Involvement in Significant Corruption.

US Department of the Treasury, READOUT: Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo’s Visit to the United Kingdom.

US Mission to International Organisations in Vienna, 20th Anniversary of UN Convention Against Corruption.

World Economic Forum, Biggest-ever DDoS attack threatens companies worldwide, and other cybersecurity news to know this month.