Angela Wakelin, chief operating officer, and Raphaelina Arthur, head of financial crime and MLRO at fast-growing fintech, Kroo Bank, talk money muling, and other financial scams in the run-up to Christmas and whether digital challenger banks have got the balance right between using people, automated systems and AI to combat fraud.

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This week, editorial staff at The Banker look back at 2023, with themes as diverse as ESG, blockchain and crypto, AI, and what the global banking industry can do to support a liveable planet. We wish everyone a restful end of year and a happy holiday season. We look forward to sharing more with you in 2024.

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Louise Hill, CEO and co-founder of app GoHenry, talks to Anita Hawser about the role financial education and literacy, from an early age, can play in helping kids and teenagers not only live better financial lives, but avoid becoming money mules, or victims of financial crime and fraud.

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This week, John Everington, Joy Macknight and Aliya Shibli discuss the highlights from this year’s Bank of the Year Awards and the gala awards dinner held on November 30. Ms Macknight also talks about her recent interview with World Bank president Ajay Banga, touching on sustainability matters, while Ms Shibli discusses the outlook for smaller banks in the US.

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This week, Joy Macknight and Liz Lumley are live at the Global Banking Summit where they discuss cloud strategies at banks, the upcoming COP28, financing SMEs and comprehensive coverage in The Banker's new content pillars. 

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This week, Liz Lumley and Davide Montagner are joined by Sylvie Matherat, global senior advisor to Mazars’ financial services practice. They discuss European banking regulation, the complexities of fossil fuel financing, banker bonuses, a capital raise at Monzo and the drama within OpenAI.  

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This week, Liz Lumley and Barbara Pianese are joined by Marta Krupinska, co-founder of CUR8. They discuss fighting climate change with money, get the lowdown from Felaban, embrace the 'digital-first, human always' approach to transformation, examine how banks can better serve minority-owned businesses, look at how AI will impact our environment, and congratulate PensionBee on its road to profitability.

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This week, Liz Lumley and Amalia Illgner are joined by Atom Bank CEO Mark Mullen to discuss disrupting the UK mortgage market, learning mortgage lessons from other countries, the impact AI will have on productivity, digital payments and the apologies the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office made to former NatWest CEO Alison Rose.

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This week, Liz Lumley, Joy Macknight and Aliya Shibli discuss the ‘banker bonus cap scrap’, how SPACs refuse to die, the upcoming COP28, going global with your credit scores, and Elon Musk’s ambition to be the centre of your financial world, ‘or whatever’. 

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This week Liz Lumley is joined by special guest Chris Hladczuk, chief revenue officer at fintech Meow. They discuss cash management for start-ups, T+1 settlement times, money laundering, terrorism and cryptocurrencies, and get a hot take on *that* Techno-Optimist Manifesto.

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