The Dark Money Files

By Graham Barrow and Ray BlakeBusiness News Education Business News

The Dark Money Files episodes

December 15, 2024 We're scamming, we hope you like scamming too...
"...Because every day we pay the price, we’re the living sacrifice"

Taking inspiration from Bob Marley (sorry about the pun) we've done a little episode about scams and scammers (and some hints on how to spot them).
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16 min
November 26, 2024 Unheard voices - fine outcomes
In this episode we look at some of the links between three recent enforcement actions.

We try to avoid the knee jerk reactions, and think a bit deeper about them.
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19 min
October 14, 2024 Financial Crime Training - Mind the gap!
We turn our attention to the requirement to train relevant staff on all matters anti-financial crime.

And if you're planning on training - your training needs a plan!
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17 min
September 10, 2024 The (out)source code
In this episode we turn our attention to the tricky subject of outsourcing. We were going to get someone else to do it for us but we couldn't find a suitable candidate. :)
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16 min
August 16, 2024 Hot spots and intelligence 2
Hot spots and intelligence 2
In this second episode we look more broadly at the genesis of intelligence led policing, how it works and how compelling it is to draw parallels with our world of anti-financial crime.
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19 min
July 03, 2024 Hot spots and intelligence
In this episode we report on a recent visit to the European Crime Analysis conference in Copenhagen and draw parallels between the work of law enforcement and those working in compliance.

Links referred to in the episode:
Hot spot policing
Wolfsberg Group Statement on Effective Monitoring for Suspicious Activity

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19 min
June 04, 2024 Are corporate entities the Swiss army knife of financial crime?
In this episode we explore some of the many different ways in which corporate entities can be used to engage in financial crime – although, as far as we are aware, they aren’t much use in removing stones from horse’s hooves.
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18 min
May 25, 2024 Organised Crime - two's company but three's an OCG
We dive into the details of OCGs and how they use corporate networks to launder their ill-gotten gains - and the clues they leave behind.

And, rather appropriately, we also introduce the world to our new sponsor: https://riskalert247.com/

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21 min
May 07, 2024 A proliferation explanation conversation
In this episode we turn our attention to the thorny subject of proliferation financing and provide a basic explainer of what it's about and why it's important.

The documents referred to in the episode can be accessed via the links below:

FATF Guidance on PF risk assessment | https://bit.ly/4a9FKTM
UK National Risk Assessment of PF | https://bit.ly/3JP2Lk7
| RUSI paper on PF in banking | https://bit.ly/4b4JpTU
| European Commission guidance for EU operators | https://bit.ly/4doVhSr
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19 min
April 26, 2024 It’s payback time! – the new UK regime for mandatory scam reimbursement
With a forthcoming new requirement which makes it mandatory for UK payment service providers (PSPs) to reimburse the victims of some types of fraud, we look at the rules and how they are likely to play out.
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23 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.