In this episode we weave together crypto, courts and controversy when Sam Bankman Fried meets the Court of Justice of the European Union and a millionaire underwear Baroness. 

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It’s been a little while so we thought we’d do a bit of a catch up on some recent publications from Wolfsberg, the FATF and the Finnish FSA.

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In our final part of our look at fraud, we explain, in general terms, current approaches to how best to compensate the victims and deny the fraudsters (as well as explaining briefly, why the gap since the last episode).

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We interrupt our suite of podcasts on fraud to bring you a special episode relating to the human cost of fake company incorporations.

Working with various different media outlets, we’ve helped bring to light some of the stories relating to people who unwittingly fall foul of fake company incorporators.

Listen, for example, to this recent episode of BBCs You and Yours:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0019z2g

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In this second part of our series on fraud we delve into some of the different types of fraud.

We proffer some “mildly salacious” examples, along with others which are rather more serious.

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In this pun laden episode, we start to delve into the world of fraud. More to follow…

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The UK regulator, in common with most regulators around the world, is keen to understand the role that synthetic data might play, alongside Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

It has made a call for input which closes on 22 June. 

In this episode we review the current state of play, the uses for synthetic data and why contributing to this call is so important.

Link to the call: https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/call-for-input/synthetic-data-to-support-financial-services-innovation.pdf 

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In this episode we tackle the thorny issue of tax avoidance, aggressive tax avoidance and tax evasion. We also take a closer look at one of the schemes which falls somewhere on that spectrum: mini-umbrella companies.

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In this episode we look at all things digital and how it is changing the landscape of authentication whilst making KYC more dynamic.

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To conclude this trilogy of podcasts looking at the world from the money launderers point of view, Ray and Graham take a deep dive into trade-based money laundering and trade finance.

They revisit the research conducted by John Zdanowicz – copy of the report referred to can be found here.

$5000 tweezers and enriched uranium at $15/kg make for a lively episode! 

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