The Dark Money Files

By Graham Barrow and Ray BlakeBusiness News Education Business News

The Dark Money Files episodes

August 11, 2019 The Deutsche Bank Story, Part Four: The road to ruing
In this final episode of the Deutsche Bank story we look at the acquisition of Morgan Grenfell and Bankers Trust along with the banks somewhat strange relationship with Donald Trump. We also mention "The Dark Money Files Live" event which is coming soon to a location in London (with others to follow, we hope.
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21 min
August 06, 2019 The Deutsche Bank Story, Part Three: What the FCA found
In this episode we complete our review of Deutsche Bank's inspection by the FCA which led to them being fined £163m (and $425m by the Department of Financial Services - New York). W explain in some detail all of the areas identified for criticism but also highlight some of the good things Deutsche Bank did which don't always get the publicity they deserve.
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22 min
July 28, 2019 The Deutsche Bank Story, Part Two - The FCA comes to visit
In this second part of our in-depth review of the recent travails at Deutsche Bank we talk about the background to the Systematic AML Programme (SAMLP) visit by the FCA, the LIBOR fine which preceded it (including the £100m fine for DB's breach of Principle 11) as well as describing what exactly a SAMLP entails.

Whilst this is specifically a tool in the UK regulator's toolbox, the outcomes and learning from the visit would apply to any bank throughout the world.

We also mention the EU's latest report into the failings of some banks (including DB) in respect of recent alleged money laundering scandals.
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22 min
July 21, 2019 The Deutsche Bank Story: Part One - The Mirror Trades
Given its refusal to stay out of the news, we thought it was about time to turn our attention to Deutsche Bank. In an extended set of episodes we are going to examine in detail exactly what, in our opinion, went wrong and why.

Part one begins by examining the "mirror trade" affair in detail. We will bring to light previously unreported elements and also try and make sense of exactly what was the problem (HINT: It wasn't the mirror trades themselves).
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26 min
June 30, 2019 Extraordinary Danske developments and the need to report suspicions
We report on our involvement in recent leaks relating to Danske Bank and the potential criminal charges that can follow a failure to report.

External reports commissioned and cancelled, suspicious activity detected but not reported and question marks over the way a whistleblower was treated. This episode has got it all!
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26 min
June 23, 2019 Old banks and new technologies - oil and water?
In this episode we start a conversation about FinTech and RegTech (along with a few digressions and diversions along the way). In an abbreviation heavy episode, we talk about face and voice validation, iris scanning and APIs, near field communication (NFC) chips and machine readable zones (MRZ) on passports and mention some of the ethical challenges that artificial intelligence and machine learning might pose.
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23 min
June 16, 2019 Oh what tangled webs we weave!
Following on from our last episode looking at Bitcoin and the Blockchain, this week we look at the surface web, deep web and the dark web, explain what these different terms mean and then delve into the TOR network, TOR browser, .onion sites, the Silk Road and "Dread Pirate Roberts"!
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19 min
June 02, 2019 Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptography - Time to look forward
This week, with some trepidation, we embark on an overview of some of the more esoteric elements of financial crime risk management. We attempt to explain the blockchain, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, and cryptography generally, in layman's terms.

As neither of us are subject matter experts in any of these fields, we are somewhat laying ourselves open to rebuttal and ridicule but we felt it was worth the risk.
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24 min
May 27, 2019 Deutsche Bank's "Glitch" and Lithuania's "Pitch" - a week in AML
In this week's episode we talk about the glitch that was discovered in Deutsche Bank's transaction monitoring system (and a couple of other Deutsche Bank related news stories) as well as Graham's recent visit to Lithuania and their pitch to be a global centre for FinTechs (along with the fallout from the Troika Laundromat and much else).
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21 min
May 19, 2019 Laundromats and Legal Entities - part three: Scottish Limited Partnerships
The one you've all been waiting for! A detailed explanation of SLPs, their history, construction and how they are used to launder money - plus a further explanation of a Scottish Limited Partnership complex structure to show how they are evolving in the light of continued public exposure.
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20 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.