There's a type of money laundering that banks struggle to identify - and it's massive.

Anton Moiseienko, Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute's Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, and Jon Draper, New Ventures Product Lead at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence talk to host Ben Tudor about a second front in the battle against money laundering: global trade.

Look out for the second episode over the coming weeks.

Further reading:

BAE Systems banking Insights: Finding the Achilles' Heel of Trade Based Money Laundering

RUSI: Have your cake and trade it (Anton Moiseienko)

RUSI: Addressing the abuse of trade for money laundering purposes (Jon Draper, BAE Systems)

John Beadle has spent decades working with insurers, law enforcement and the UK government to tackle and defeat insurance fraud. A former New Scotland Yard detective, he’s been a pivotal figure in the creation of the General Insurance Council and the Insurance Fraud Council, and Head of Fraud at Royal Sun Alliance.

Hear John’s observations on how UK insurers and law enforcement have stepped up to the task of taking on fraud over the last few years – and the value of open and friendly cooperation to get the job done.

Online data sharing has made data privacy critical. But whose responsibility is it to keep it safe?

In the second of two podcasts for The Intelligence Network, cyber security and human factors consultant Esme Heywood and data and privacy expert Rob Clifford talk to host Ben Tudor about what people – and organisations – can do to keep their data safe.

Hattie Shaw of the Futures team talks to our host, Ben Tudor, about how banks can check whether their defences against money laundering actually work - and, in the process identify and assist individual victims of crime.

The proposed FinCrime Testing Service is intended to provide an independent test for banks to measure how effective their defences are, and how they can be adjusted and improved.

The first typology will simulate the behaviour of a victim of Human Trafficking. The intention is this will help banks identify, and the authorities ultimately help, people who have been forced into slavery.

To find out how your institution can get involved, mail [email protected]

It's the oldest trick in a cyber attacker's book: as old as human communication and deceit itself. Confidence tricks that mislead employees, customers or intermediaries into giving away information, data or access are a massive vulnerability hidden in plain sight. So how do we defend against Social Engineering?

In the first of two podcasts inspired by research for The Intelligence Network, Cyber Security & Human Factors Consultant Esme Heywood and Gareth Evans, Senior Financial Crime Consultant look at how Social Engineering works, and how the financial sector can help protect customers from attack.

Insurers – and their customers – are changing at breakneck pace these days. Organised fraudsters are more than keeping up.

In this second of two podcasts, Scott Clayton, Head of Claims Fraud at Zurich, and Cate Wright, BAE Systems Insurance Product Manager draw on their extensive experience of countering fraudsters in discussion with host Ben Tudor.

Insurers – and their customers – are changing at breakneck pace these days. Organised fraudsters are more than keeping up.

In the first of two podcasts, Scott Clayton, Head of Claims Fraud at Zurich, and Cate Wright, BAE Systems Insurance Product Manager draw on their extensive experience of countering fraudsters in discussion with host Ben Tudor.

Many of the challenges you face when fighting insurance fraud are shared by your peers across the world. Yet there are subtle – but important – variations when it comes to the way these trends affect insurers in different countries.

In this new podcast, two of BAE Systems leading counter-fraud minds – Cate Wright and Dennis Toomey – discuss the differences between UK and US approaches to tackling fraud.

After the events detailed in The Thread, banks, institutions and cyber experts were quick to respond. But what does the future hold?

In this podcast SWIFT Chief Security Officer Karel De Kneef and BAE Systems Cyber Security Consultant Szu Ho join host Ben Tudor to discuss the future threats to financial markets. The topic is covered in further detailed in a joint report from SWIFT and BAE Systems, The Evolving Advanced Cyber Threat to Financial Markets.

In the months after the attack on Bangladesh Bank, cyber security and financial institutions and experts responded. What did they learn, how did they change their approach and what lessons can other industries learn?

This episode of the Intelligence Download looks at how both the cyber security and financial sectors responded to the new attacks on banks, and how it changed the way that financial institutions protected themselves.

James Allman-Talbot, Head of Incident Response at BAE Systems, and Stephen Blackburn, Senior Financial Crime Consultant talk to host Ben Tudor about the lessons learned and the future for financial institutions.