Kieran talks with Jennifer Shasky Calvery, Group Head of Financial Crime Risk at HSBC, a former Director of the Financial Crime Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, and former federal prosecutor.Drawing on her public and private sector experience

Making Sense of U.S. Anti-Financial Crime Measures, with Daniel Stipano

Mar 14th, 2024 33m 37s

Kieran talks with Daniel Stipano, partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell and a 30-year veteran of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, about the unfolding requirements of the Corporate Transparency and AML Acts and their impact on law enfor

Identifying Financial Crime Threats, with Justine Walker and Craig Timm

Feb 14th, 2024 30m 8s

Kieran talks with ACAMS colleagues Justine Walker, head of global sanctions and AML risk, and Craig Timm, senior AML director, about the just released “ACAMS Global AFC Threats 2024.”Drawing on 788 in-depth interactions with anti-financial c

Stemming Crypto-related Crime, with Coinbase’s Grant Rabenn

Jan 30th, 2024 28m 3s

Kieran talks with Grant Rabenn, Director, Financial Crimes Legal at Coinbase.Grant, a former federal prosecutor who handled some of the Department of Justice’s earliest crypto cases, discusses the promise of blockchain offerings, while acknow

Around the Globe to Understand Crypto, with Zeke Faux

Jan 8th, 2024 31m 12s

Kieran talks with Zeke Faux, author of critically acclaimed “Number Go Up,” a comprehensive look at cryptocurrency, DeFi, and NFTs.Zeke, an investigative reporter for Bloomberg BusinessWeek and Bloomberg News, discusses the trek he undertook

From Money Launderer to AML Consultant, the Kenneth Rijock Story

Dec 13th, 2023 25m 15s

Kieran talks with Kenneth Rijock, a former Miami-based lawyer who spent a decade as a bag man for drug-traffickers, investing their cash in accounts in the Caribbean and other offshore secrecy havens.Ken describes some of the classic methods

Enabling Law Enforcement in the Fight Against Online Child Exploitation, with Carly Yoost

Nov 15th, 2023 18m 55s

Kieran talks with Carly Yoost, CEO and founder of the Child Rescue Coalition, which has created technology that enables law enforcement to identify instances of online child exploitation and locate its perpetrators. During their discussion,

Fighting Fraud, with the FBI’s James Barnacle and Christopher Soyez

Oct 31st, 2023 31m 35s

Kieran talks with James Barnacle, Chief of the Financial Crimes Section, Criminal Investigative Division of the FBI, and Christopher Soyez, Assistant Section Chief.Jim and Chris discuss how the FBI works to recover the proceeds of scams on b

Public & Private Sectors Together in the Fight Against Financial Crime, with Kenneth A. Blanco

Oct 16th, 2023 24m 30s

Kieran talks with Kenneth A. Blanco, Chief Compliance Officer for the Financial Crimes Unit at Citigroup, who is also a former Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) director and before that held several senior roles within the U.S. Depa

Making the World Safe for DeFi, with Seoyoung Kim

Aug 30th, 2023 24m 12s

Kieran talks with Seoyoung Kim, Associate Professor of Finance, Department Chair, at Santa Clara University, about the promise and possible perils of decentralized finance.They discuss the recent implosion of several cryptocurrency exchanges

Parsing the Challenges of Fighting Financial Crime, with Rick Small, Dan Soto and John Byrne

Aug 1st, 2023 38m 27s

Kieran talks with Rick Small, Director Financial Crimes Program, at Truist, Dan Soto, Chief Compliance Officer, Ally Financial, and John Byrne, Executive Vice President, AML RightSource, about what’s been achieved in the past 40 years in the fi

Preparing for Europe’s AMLA and Fighting Financial Crime, with Dutch Central Banker Willem Schudel

Jul 3rd, 2023 21m 32s

Kieran talks with Willem Schudel, Head of Department, Financial Crime Supervision (AML/TF) at the Central Bank of the Netherlands, live from The Assembly Europe, ACAMS’ annual conference, held this year in Dublin.Willem discusses the Dutch C

Creating the Next Wave for Fighting Financial Crime, with FINTRAC’s Sarah Paquet

Jun 5th, 2023 28m 29s

Kieran talks with Sarah Paquet, Director and CEO of the Financial Transaction Reports Analysis Centre, FINTRAC, live from ACAMS’ 27th annual moneylaundering.com conference in Hollywood, Florida.Sarah discusses FINTRAC’s new role handling sanc

Stemming Financial Crime in Art and Antiquities, with Steve Schindler and Katie Wilson-Milne

May 18th, 2023 26m 10s

Kieran talks with Steve Schindler and Katie Wilson-Milne, partners at New York litigation and art law boutique Schindler Cohen & Hochman LLP about the state of financial crime in the global antiquities and art world.Charting some of the civil

Re-thinking the ‘War on Dirty Money,’ with Tristram Hicks

Apr 17th, 2023 22m 11s

Kieran talks with Tristram Hicks, co-author with Nicholas Gilmour of “The War on Dirty Money,” an examination of the promise and short-comings of the current costly global effort to combat financial crime. Drawing on his years as a New Scotla

Keeping Up with the Financial Action Task Force and Beyond, with David Lewis

Mar 14th, 2023 21m 54s

Kieran talks with David Lewis, executive secretary of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) from 2015 to 2022, about the FATF’s recent plenary that gray listed South Africa and Nigeria, formally suspended Russia from membership, and criticized

How Britain Became Butler to the World’s Financial Criminals, with Oliver Bullough

Feb 16th, 2023 26m 14s

Kieran talks with Oliver Bullough, award winning reporter for The Guardian, about his latest book, “Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals.”During their conversation, Oliver det

Preparing for FinCEN’s Latest Rulemakings and Beyond, with Daniel Stipano and Jamal El-Hindi

Jan 29th, 2023 28m 28s

Kieran talks with Dan Stipano, partner at Davis Polk, and Jamal El-Hindi, Counsel at Clifford Chance, about the Financial Crime Enforcement Network’s far reaching new rules for creating a U.S. beneficial ownership information (BOI) database for

Fighting the Online Exploitation of Children, with Jonathan Dupont and Tiffany Polyak

Jan 4th, 2023 16m 44s

Kieran talks with Jonathan Dupont, a financial intelligence investigator for Western Union, and Tiffany Polyak, AFC Associate at ACAMS, about the growth in online sexual exploitation of children and the related rise in child sexual abuse materi

Combating Cybercrime, with Bryan Smith

Nov 30th, 2022 28m 4s

Kieran talks with Bryan Smith, chief of the FBI’s Cybercriminal Section and a 20-year bureau veteran, about the growing threat of cybercrime to both individuals and large corporations.Bryan discusses the destruction caused by cyber hacking, i

Exposing Financial Crime Down Under, with Nathan Lynch

Oct 17th, 2022 26m 39s

Kieran talks with Nathan Lynch, author of 'The Lucky Laundry' - an expose of how Australia became the conduit for billons of dollars in laundered funds from the proceeds of drug trafficking, corruption, the sexual exploitation of children and o

Making Sense of the Current Chaos in Crypto, with Joby Carpenter

Oct 3rd, 2022 22m 33s

Kieran talks with ACAMS colleague Joby Carpenter about the current tumult in the digital asset world, including plummeting cryptocurrency prices, digital value’s exploitation by money launderers, the threat from cyberhackers, and the rise in cr

Working to Protect Refugees Fleeing Russia’s Ukraine Invasion, with Daniel Thelesklaf

Jun 2nd, 2022 21m 45s

Kieran talks with Daniel Thelesklaf, Project Director for Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST) at the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research about the effort to protect refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from

Making Russian Sanctions Stick and Fighting Financial Crime, with Ilze Znotina

May 16th, 2022 24m 9s

Kieran talks with Ilze Znotina about the challenges Latvia has faced over the past four years she has been head of the Financial Intelligence Unit, including enforcing sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.“Baltic states

Understanding the “Freedom Convoy” and the Funding of Extremist Groups, with Jessica Davis

Apr 29th, 2022 24m 3s

Kieran talks with Jessica Davis, a veteran of more than 20 years in defense and intelligence roles in government and the private sector in Canada. They discuss the occupation of Canada’s capitol for three weeks last winter by the so-called “Fre