Throughout this reporting project, Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier wanted to talk to someone who was the subject of a suspicious activity report to ask, “Why did the bank flag you?” Only one person was willing to talk: real estate developer a

Episode Four: See Something, Say Something

1 Oct 8th, 2020 28m 48s

Two former employees of Standard Chartered say they were ignored and eventually fired when they reported accounts at the bank that looked fishy to them – accounts they suspected were violating U.S. sanctions against Iran. But as BuzzFeed News r

Episode Three: Know Your Customer

1 Oct 1st, 2020 30m 24s

Even in the finance world, Deutsche Bank has a troubled reputation. One of its darkest and most mysterious chapters happened when it facilitated the laundering of $10 billion dollars for anonymous shell companies around the world. But BuzzFeed

Episode Two: Permission Slip

1 Sep 24th, 2020 36m 38s

HSBC was the poster child of a bad bank. In 2012 the bank was slapped with a 1.9 billion dollar fine and told it needed to clean up its act, or face prosecution. Digging into the FinCEN Files, BuzzFeed News reporters Anthony Cormier and Jason L

Episode One: The Documents

1 Sep 20th, 2020 29m

A trove of secret documents received by BuzzFeed News reveals how banks profit off terror and organized crime — and the ways that governments fail to stop it.To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.auda

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Coming 9/20: Something Big

Sep 19th, 2020 2m

We can’t tell you much yet. Sorry! But we can tell you that it’s big. Possibly the biggest reporting project ever. And that it’s coming on Sept. 20.To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/