The Dark Money Files

By Graham Barrow and Ray BlakeBusiness News Education Business News

The Dark Money Files episodes

March 15, 2022 A view from the dark side – Part 3
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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22 min
March 03, 2022 A view from the dark side - Part 2
In this second part of Graham & Ray’s trip to the dark side, and with almost prescient timing, they explain how to set up a global money laundering machine.
Please don’t try this at home.
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16 min
February 15, 2022 A view from the dark side - Part 1
Having spent three years and 93 episodes reporting from the side of the great and the good, Ray and Graham move the focus to the view from the dark side.
And it sounds like they had an inordinate amount of fun doing so!

Two more parts to follow!
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20 min
January 27, 2022 NatWest Bank and HSBC: The King, his cleaner and the thirsty aspidistra
We bring this trilogy of episodes around transaction monitoring failures to an end with a final review of the NatWest case and a comparison with the recent fine levied against HSBC.
What’s that got to do with a King, his cleaner and a thirsty aspidistra? You’ll need to listen to find out!
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28 min
January 10, 2022 NatWest Bank and the Bradford Laundromat - part 2
In this episode we bring you the second part of our deep dive into the criminal prosecution of NatWest through the lens of the Statement of Facts which accompanied the guilty verdict.
This time, amongst other things, we cover smelly banknotes and bin bags full of cash.
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27 min
January 03, 2022 NatWest Bank and the Bradford Laundromat - part 1
In this episode we bring you part one of a deep dive into the criminal prosecution of NatWest
through the lens of the Statement of Facts which accompanied the guilty verdict.

No matter where you are in the world, given the ubiquity of AML regulations, this will be relevant to you and your organisation.
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28 min
December 26, 2021 Green flags and white lists
In this episode we want to move away from always being suspicious and look at the other side of the coin. Can we use green flags to help identify suspicious behaviour from a very different angle?
And do we need to be cautious in our use of whitelists?
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16 min
December 08, 2021 Companies House Advanced Search
In this episode we enthusiastically review the new advanced search function recently launched on the Companies House website. We also make a heartfelt plea for other corporate registers to look and learn from the huge potential gains in proactively managing corporate financial crime risk that it facilitates.
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21 min
December 04, 2021 Regulators, statistics and benchmarking
In this episode we look at how the FCA’s REP-CRIM report can assist firms in assessing the effectiveness of their AML controls through both trend analysis and benchmarking against their peers. And we explain how trend analysis such as this can benefit all financial institutions wherever they do business.
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22 min
November 03, 2021 Set the controls for the heart of the risk
In this episode we review the need for firms to review, and adjust as necessary, their financial crime control environment. We also talk about some of the triggers which might cause these adjustments and the actions which might follow.
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18 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.