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The Dark Money Files episodes

July 22, 2020 Deutsche Bank and the DFS NY: Part Three - Danske Bank
The third part of our look at the Consent Order issued by the DFS NY against Deutsche Bank throws up some worrying inconsistencies between the CO and the Bruun & Hjejle Danske bank report. Was it because Danske Head office didn't know, they did but didn't disclose to B&H or they did disclose and it was withheld from the final report?
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19 min
July 21, 2020 Deutsche Bank and the DFS NY: Part Two - FBME
In part two of our special report into the Consent Order issued by the DFS NY against Deutsche Bank we look at its troubled relationship with FBME, the Cyprus based subsidiary of the Federal Bank of Lebanon and conclude that being a correspondent brings with it ethical issues that are not always there with direct client relationships.
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18 min
July 18, 2020 Deutsche Bank and the DFS NY: Part One - Epstein
In the first of a trilogy of special episodes relating to the recent Consent Order agreed between Deutsche Bank and the Department of Financial Services - New York, we look in detail at the nature of the relationship, and the mistakes that were made, when Deutsche Bank decided to do business with Jeffrey Epstein.

Some of which (surprisingly) has either not been reported or only reported in passing.
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25 min
July 10, 2020 A fine day in London and Stockholm (part 2)
In this second part of our review of recent fines against SEB in Sweden and Commerzbank in the UK we dive into the detail of the Commerzbank Final Notice which reveals one or two surprises!
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20 min
July 01, 2020 A fine day in London and Stockholm
In this episode we begin our review of the Commerzbank fine by the FCA and give a brief overview of the SEB fine by the Swedish FSA. What can we learn from these events?

Have a listen to find out!
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18 min
June 20, 2020 Significant Control - who is and who isn't a PSC
In this episode we review the recent report by David Leask and Richard Smith published on the OpenDemocracy website revealing the current state of play with respect to the UK Person with Significant Control regime. We use the opportunity to summarise the reasons for, and the requirements of the regime.
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19 min
May 27, 2020 Trade based money laundering - a penny for your thoughts?
In this episode we cover the foundations of trade based money laundering, what it is and how, classically, it is done. Along the way we make some surprising price discoveries on Amazon, compare a pair of tweezers to the size of a hydrogen atom and discover an unlikely candidate for dual use goods.

Link to the John Zdanowicz TBML research: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46556338_Trade-Based_Money_Laundering_and_Terrorist_Financing

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20 min
May 10, 2020 There's a lot of it about (we go viral)
This week we look at the impact of the coronavirus on bank's financial crime controls, processes and systems. We also give an update on the Dark Money Files Conference which is still going ahead as planned in September, although in a different format!
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17 min
April 28, 2020 Lifting the spell of dirty money - we review the EBF report (Part 2)
Part two of a two part episode reviewing and commenting on the recommendations contained in the recent European Banking Federation's review of the role that banks need to play in the fight against dark money.
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15 min
April 14, 2020 Lifting the spell of dirty money - we review the EBF report (Part 1)
Part one of a two part episode reviewing and commenting on the recommendations contained in the recent European Banking Federation's review of the role that the banks need to play in the fight against dark money.
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15 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.