The Dark Money Files

By Graham Barrow and Ray BlakeBusiness News Education Business News

The Dark Money Files episodes

October 09 Stranger on the Shor
We take a dive into Russian sanctions' evasion through the obscurely named A7 company jointly owned by Ilan Shor (of Moldovan Banking Scandal fame) and PSB Bank (formerly Promsvyazbank).
And it's quite a journey!
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31 min
September 22 CH...CH...CHanges
We look at how the recent implementation of identity verification either direct or through an Authorised Company Service Provider (ACSP) at Companies House, might have changed the landscape of incorporations (HINT: it has).
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22 min
August 11 A wealth of information
In this episode we couldn't resist a deep dive into the recent UBS fine by four (yes, four) US regulators and what that means for anyone working in the Financial Crime Compliance space
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28 min
July 07 Partners in crime
In a slightly longer than normal episode we do a deep dive into partnerships of various flavours and how the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act is going to change things.
Partnerships are not straightforward (hence the longer episode) but they are sensitive to abuse so this is an important topic for financial crime professionals.
And there is the offer of a free gift at the end of the episode!
What's not to like.
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31 min
June 09 Document or detect?
We take a look at the effect of human behaviour on our ability to stop criminals gaining access to the financial system and why that system is more likely to produce comprehensive documents than effective detection.

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16 min
May 13 The verification game
We look at the role of Authorised Corporate Service Providers (ACSPs) in the new regime at Companies House and explain why understanding both its strengths and weaknesses is important to anyone responsible for onboarding or monitoring UK companies, wherever in the world you work.
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27 min
April 15 Is Companies House an economic bellwether?
One for the geeks!
Changes in company formation levels are often use to justify/criticise different governments' economic policies.
We go behind the headline figures to see if this is justified or not (HINT: not!).
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20 min
March 10 Happy birthday OFSI
Ten years after the creation of the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, we look at how the UK sanctions regime has evolved—from early uncertainty to strict liability enforcement, sanctions list complexity, and the growing expectations on the private sector.
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22 min
February 09 It's a grey(list) area
Today we tackle some colourful risk lists or, to be a bit more precise, some black and grey ones, along with some strange differentials.
Like how come the UK has a high risk third country list when there are no second countries in sight?
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25 min
January 09 Crime on the high street - part two
In the second of a two part, end of year podcast, we continue to explain how we helped with a major BBC investigation into crime on the high street, involving the sale of illicit cigarettes and vapes, modern human slavery, people trafficking, tax evasion, corruption and money laundering.
In this episode, undercover filming unearths a shocking story and we explain our part in finding some of the protagonists involved.
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14 min

About The Dark Money Files

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A series of podcasts which explain to a non-technical audience how "Dark Money" (e.g. money laundering, corruption, bribery, tax evasion) enters the financial system and infects everything it touches.