Financial Crime Matters
Episodes
Countering Canada’s Deadly Drug Trade, with Nick Souccar
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran talks live from the ACAMS Assembly Canada with Inspector Nick Souccar, who is Officer in Char...
How the Big Banks Look at Stablecoin, Digital Assets and Modernization, with Ned Conway
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of "Financial Crime Matters," Kieran talks live from The ACAMS Assembly Las Vegas with Ned Conway, Executive Secretary at the Wolfsber...
How Sanctions Became a Way to Wage War and When They Actually Work, with Eddie Fishman.
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of "Financial Crime Matters," Kieran talks with Eddie Fishman, author of “Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War...
Embarking on a New Anti-Financial Crime Era, with AUSTRAC's Brendan Thomas
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of "Financial Crime Matters," Kieran talks with AUSTRAC CEO Brendan Thomas about his agency's efforts to implement a vast extension of...
Fighting identity theft and the financial exploitation of children, with Renata Furst Galvão
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of "Financial Crime Matters," Kieran talks with Renata Furst Galvão about identity theft, focusing on the theft of children’s ident...
Uncovering Links to Chinese Underground Laundering and More:LatAm Conference Special with John Tobon
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of "Financial Crime Matters" Kieran talks with John Tobon, former assistant director for the Department of Homeland Security Investiga...
Fighting Corruption at Home and Abroad, with TI France's Sara Brimbeuf
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran talks with Sara Brimbeuf, head of the illicit financial flows program at Transparency Interna...
Blockchain Forensics and Surviving Detention in Nigeria, with Tigran Gambaryan and Andy Greenberg.
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran talks with Andy Greenberg, senior writer at WIRED and author of the blockchain forensic thril...
Countering Violent Extremist Groups, with Hans-Jakob Schindler
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran talks with Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director of the Counter-Extremism Project about t...
Understanding North Korea’s $1.5 Billion Bybit Theft, with Geoff White
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran talks with Geoff White, the author of three crucial books on financial crime, including “Th...
Neither Rain, Nor Snow: Fighting Financial Crime Threats to the US Postal Service, with Michael Bruno
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran talks with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s Michael Bruno, who is anti-money laundering...
Prosecuting Crypto Criminals, with the Justice Department’s Claudia Quiroz
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran talks with Claudia Quiroz, Director of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, or NCET,...
Fighting the Online Exploitation of Children, with Adam Levine of the Child Rescue Coalition
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran talks with Adam Levine, Director of Government Engagement for the Child Rescue Coalition (CRC...
Standing Against "Pig-Butchering," with Zeke Faux, Danielle Keeton-Olsen and Erin West
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran talks with three individuals committed to exposing cryptocurrency scams and drawing attention...
Prosecuting Bank Insiders Gone Bad, with the DOJ’s Michael Grady
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Financial Crime Matters, Kieran sits down with Michael Grady, chief of the bank integrity unit at the U.S. Department of Justice Cr...
Parsing the TD Bank Prosecution and Regulatory Settlements, with Craig Timm
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters”, Kieran talks with ACAMS colleague, Craig Timm, Senior Director of AML at ACAMS. Craig and Kieran d...
Industry Leaders: Jason Somrak
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Detecting True Crimes with Great Accuracy, with Oracle’s Jason Somrak In this inaugural episode of “Financial Crime Matters: Industry Leaders,”...
Understanding Canada’s Enhanced Regulatory Regime, with Jacqueline Shinfield
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Understanding Canada’s Enhanced Regulatory Regime, with Jacqueline Shinfield. In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran talks with ...
Fighting Push-Payment Fraud and Other Online Scams, with Santander’s Chris Ainsley
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran talks with Chris Ainsley, head of fraud risk management at Santander Bank. Drawing on more ...
Preventing Crime and Adopting a Regulatory Framework, with Kraken’s CJ Rinaldi
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with CJ Rinaldi, chief compliance officer at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, about the virtual asset service provider’s efforts to preve...
Surviving Regulatory and Law Enforcement Scrutiny as a Compliance Officer, with Christina Rea
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Financial Crime Matters, Kieran talks with Christina Rea about her brief tenure at Binance.US as interim chief compliance officer. ...
Tracking crypto and money mules, with IRS-CI’s Guy Ficco
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Guy Ficco, the Chief of IRS Criminal Investigation. They discuss the IRS-CI’s recent success in tracking illicit cryptocurrency tr...
Intercepting Terror Finance, with the FBI’s Eliza Odom
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Eliza Odom, former Section Chief of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, about the top terror threats the bureau is currently focu...
Tracking and Seizing Drug Money, with Hennie Verbeek-Kusters
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Hennie Verbeek-Kusters, head of the Netherlands financial intelligence unit, about her leadership over the FIU since its founding in...
Seizing Assets So That Crime Doesn’t Pay, with Molly Moeser
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Molly Moeser, Acting Chief, Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section of the U.S. Justice Department, about MLARS’ efforts to se...
Enlisting A.I. in the Fight Against Financial Crime, with Jennifer Shasky Calvery
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Jennifer Shasky Calvery, Group Head of Financial Crime Risk at HSBC, a former Director of the Financial Crime Enforcement Network, o...
Making Sense of U.S. Anti-Financial Crime Measures, with Daniel Stipano
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 u...
Identifying Financial Crime Threats, with Justine Walker and Craig Timm
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with ACAMS colleagues Justine Walker, head of global sanctions and AML risk, and Craig Timm, senior AML director, about the just released...
Stemming Crypto-related Crime, with Coinbase’s Grant Rabenn
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Grant Rabenn, Director, Financial Crimes Legal at Coinbase. Grant, a former federal prosecutor who handled some of the Department o...
Around the Globe to Understand Crypto, with Zeke Faux
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Zeke Faux, author of critically acclaimed “Number Go Up,” a comprehensive look at cryptocurrency, DeFi, and NFTs. Zeke, an inve...
From Money Launderer to AML Consultant, the Kenneth Rijock Story
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
Enabling Law Enforcement in the Fight Against Online Child Exploitation, with Carly Yoost
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Carly Yoost, CEO and founder of the Child Rescue Coalition, which has created technology that enables law enforcement to identify in...
Fighting Fraud, with the FBI’s James Barnacle and Christopher Soyez
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with James Barnacle, Chief of the Financial Crimes Section, Criminal Investigative Division of the FBI, and Christopher Soyez, Assistant ...
Public & Private Sectors Together in the Fight Against Financial Crime, with Kenneth A. Blanco
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Kenneth A. Blanco, Chief Compliance Officer for the Financial Crimes Unit at Citigroup, who is also a former Financial Crimes Enforc...
Making the World Safe for DeFi, with Seoyoung Kim
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Seoyoung Kim, Associate Professor of Finance, Department Chair, at Santa Clara University, about the promise and possible perils of ...
Parsing the Challenges of Fighting Financial Crime, with Rick Small, Dan Soto and John Byrne
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Rick Small, Director Financial Crimes Program, at Truist, Dan Soto, Chief Compliance Officer, Ally Financial, and John Byrne, Execut...
Preparing for Europe’s AMLA and Fighting Financial Crime, with Dutch Central Banker Willem Schudel
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Willem Schudel, Head of Department, Financial Crime Supervision (AML/TF) at the Central Bank of the Netherlands, live from The Assem...
Creating the Next Wave for Fighting Financial Crime, with FINTRAC’s Sarah Paquet
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Sarah Paquet, Director and CEO of the Financial Transaction Reports Analysis Centre, FINTRAC, live from ACAMS’ 27th annual moneyla...
Stemming Financial Crime in Art and Antiquities, with Steve Schindler and Katie Wilson-Milne
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Steve Schindler and Katie Wilson-Milne, partners at New York litigation and art law boutique Schindler Cohen & Hochman LLP about the...
Re-thinking the ‘War on Dirty Money,’ with Tristram Hicks
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Keeping Up with the Financial Action Task Force and Beyond, with David Lewis
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
How Britain Became Butler to the World’s Financial Criminals, with Oliver Bullough
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Oliver Bullough, award winning reporter for The Guardian, about his latest book, “Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Serv...
Preparing for FinCEN’s Latest Rulemakings and Beyond, with Daniel Stipano and Jamal El-Hindi
29 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Dan Stipano, partner at Davis Polk, and Jamal El-Hindi, Counsel at Clifford Chance, about the Financial Crime Enforcement Network’...
Fighting the Online Exploitation of Children, with Jonathan Dupont and Tiffany Polyak
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Jonathan Dupont, a financial intelligence investigator for Western Union, and Tiffany Polyak, AFC Associate at ACAMS, about the grow...
Combating Cybercrime, with Bryan Smith
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Exposing Financial Crime Down Under, with Nathan Lynch
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Nathan Lynch, author of 'The Lucky Laundry' - an expose of how Australia became the conduit for billons of dollars in laundered fund...
Making Sense of the Current Chaos in Crypto, with Joby Carpenter
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with ACAMS colleague Joby Carpenter about the current tumult in the digital asset world, including plummeting cryptocurrency prices, digi...
Working to Protect Refugees Fleeing Russia’s Ukraine Invasion, with Daniel Thelesklaf
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Daniel Thelesklaf, Project Director for Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST) at the United Nations University Centre for P...
Making Russian Sanctions Stick and Fighting Financial Crime, with Ilze Znotina
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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, in...
Understanding the “Freedom Convoy” and the Funding of Extremist Groups, with Jessica Davis
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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. The...
Addressing Hunger in Afghanistan, with John Sifton and Patti Gossman
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with John Sifton, advocacy director, and Patti Gossman, associate Asia director, at Human Rights Watch about the dire humanitarian situat...
Combating International Wildlife Trafficking & Other Environmental Crime, with Olivia Swaak-Goldman
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Olivia Swaak-Goldman, executive director of the Wildlife Justice Commission, about the Hague-based organization’s efforts to stop ...
Anticipating the Scope of Possible Russian Sanctions, with Justine Walker
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with colleague Dr. Justine Walker, Global Head - Sanctions, Compliance and Risk at ACAMS, about the likely shape of sanctions against Rus...
Imagining a Better Web 3 World That Protects Human Trafficking Victims, with Anjana Rajan
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Anjana Rajan, chief technology officer for Polaris, about the work the not-for-profit does to fight human trafficking, including hav...
Understanding the Rise of DeFi and ‘DeCrime,’ with Tom Robinson
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Dr. Tom Robinson, chief scientist and founder of Elliptic, a blockchain forensics company, about the phenomenal growth of decentrali...
Exposing the American Kleptocracy, with Casey Michel
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Casey Michel about his just published book, “American Kleptocracy,” which details how the United States has become a favored des...
Facing a Humanitarian Crisis and Renewed Terror Threat in Afghanistan, with Alex Zerden
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Alex Zerden about his time as Treasury attaché at the United States Embassy in Kabul, the worsening humanitarian crisis in Afghanis...
Fighting Financial Crime in Canada, with Jacqueline Shinfield
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Jacqueline Shinfield, partner at Blakes, Cassels & Graydon about the latest legislative and regulatory requirements from Finance Can...
Understanding Terror Finance in the 21st Century, with Jessica Davis
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Jessica Davis, president of Insight Threat Intelligence and the author of the just released “Illicit Money: Financing Terrorism in...
Following the Money Even When Its Cryptocurrency, with Gurvais Grigg
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Gurvais Grigg, Chainalysis’ Global Public Sector Chief Technology Officer, about tracking cryptocurrency used in fraud, ransomware...
Detecting and Preventing Cybercrime, with Elizabeth Roper
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Elizabeth “Liz” Roper, chief of the Cybercrime and Identity Theft Bureau within the New York County District Attorney’s office...
Protecting the Elderly and Vulnerable from Financial Exploitation, with Liz Loewy
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with former prosecutor Liz Loewy, who founded the elder abuse bureau in the New York District Attorney’s office in 1994 and is co-found...
Shining Light on Right-Wing Extremism with Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, about the rising threat from right-wing domestic terror ...
Ending “Snow Washing” and Fighting Financial Crime in Canada with James Cohen
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with James Cohen, Executive Director at Transparency International Canada, about what’s wrong with Canada, including the rise in money ...
Making Common Cause Against Human Trafficking With Sara Crowe
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Sara Crowe, Strategic Initiatives Director for Financial Systems at Polaris, a not-for-profit dedicated to ending sex and human labo...
Focusing on Illicit Trade with Louise Shelley
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Louise Shelley, PhD, Director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University, about...
Shifts in the Sanctions Landscape with Justine Walker
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A special episode for everyone monitoring the critical and shifting sanctions landscape. Kieran interviews Dr Justine Walker (who has her own podcast ...
The Challenges in Preventing Financial Crime with Matis Maeker
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“It will happen to you: sooner or later, all financial institutions will be in the midst of a new scheme or scandal,” Matis Maeker, head of Estoni...
Project Shadow: Ending the Online Exploitation of Children
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“we were able to identify a number of financial indicators that… really allowed us to identify potential perpetrators of this crime,” Barry MacK...
The Biggest Thing Since the Patriot Act
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran talks with Daniel Stipano, a 30-year veteran of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, about the “Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020,”...
Kleptopia: Tom Burgis on how dirty money is conquering the world
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran Beer interviews the award-winning Financial Times Investigations Correspondent, Tom Burgis about his new book, ‘Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is...
“The FinCEN Files”: understanding the story behind the story
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
‘If you don’t understand who’s behind a shell company, you’re not going to understand what’s going on with a multi-million-dollar transactio...
Identifying the Financial Footprints of Human Trafficking
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
'Everybody has something they can do to begin to address [human trafficking] in their day-to-day business.' Dr. James Cockayne is Head of Secretariat...
Crime in Plain Sight - 1MDB
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
'I could see in plain sight that there were dots to be joined' Clare Rewcastle Brown first broke the 1MDB scandal in 2015, and has followed and repor...
Gangsters, Whales and Businessmen - Moneylaundering in Canada
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Cooper is an investigative journalist who has dedicated his career to exposing moneylaundering in British Columbia. From moneylaundering operati...
Public + Private - the Silver Bullet against Financial Crime?
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
‘All too often criminal investigations hit a dead end when law enforcement encounters a company with hidden ownership’. In this episode, Edward ...
Law Enforcement vs Cybercrime in Manhattan
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Sachs talks to Kieran Beer about the cutting-edge work that the Manhattan District Attorney's office is doing to take down cybercrime. From sc...
The Financial Tools of Statecraft
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
'These tools make it harder, costlier and riskier [for rogue actors] to move money around the world.' In this episode, Juan Zarate explains why sanc...
Sanctions of our Time: Iran, Venezuela and the Kingpins
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
‘We can continue to see them as an adversary or threat…and [still] negotiate an end to their nuclear program’. In this episode, recorded in Fe...
Is Money Laundering in Online Gaming Flying Under the Radar?
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of Financial Crime Matters Season 2, Anton Moiseienko and Kayla Izenman of RUSI talk to Kieran Beer about their recent report on ...
Money Laundering in Real Estate with Maureen Maloney
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Vancouver there are many high-end apartments where the lights never go on... In 2018/2019, Professor Maureen Maloney led an expert panel investiga...
A Survivor's Story: Timea Nagy
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
At 20, Timea Nagy was forced into sex slavery. But her story didn't end there. Her memoir 'Out of the Shadows' describes a vulnerable girl, tricked ...
The Laundrymen: Jeffrey Robinson on cleaning up global money laundering
18 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jeffrey Robinson introduced stories of money laundering to the masses with his 1995 global best seller 'The Laundrymen'. Poised to release a completel...
Canada's Radical Rethink on AML with Jacqueline Shinfield
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
FATF spoke...and Canada listened. Jacqueline Shinfield of Blake, Cassels & Graydon walks Kieran Beer through the sweeping changes that Canada is mak...
ISIS, Hezbollah and Terror Finance with Celina Realuyo
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
'We're now treating the Financiers just as seriously as the Terrorists themselves...that's a Gamechanger'. In this expansive chat about the financin...
AML & the European Commission with Alexandra Jour-Schroeder
16 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Data Protection is not an obstacle to fight money-laundering" : Alexandra Jour-Schroeder of the European Commission In this episode, Kieran Beer hos...
Protecting the Elderly from Financial Abuse with Elizabeth Loewy
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Elder financial abuse is as devastating as physical abuse, and it's a problem on the rise. In this episode, Elizabeth Loewy and Kieran Beer explore bo...
Counter-Proliferation with Tom Keatinge
15 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How does North Korea finance their weapons program? And have sanctions been effective in stopping the proliferation of nuclear weapons? In this epis...
Stand Together Against Trafficking with Angel Swift
17 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Financial institutions have the power to disrupt the $150 billion business of modern slavery. In this episode, Angel Swift talks to Kieran Beer abou...
Sanctions with John Smith
15 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
John Smith spent 11 years at OFAC, including three years as it's Director, and served under 4 Presidents. He is a global authority on Sanctions, and i...
Secrecy World: Jake Bernstein on the Panama Papers
18 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran Beer interviews two-time Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative journalist Jake Bernstein about his new book "Secrecy World". Jake was a senior...
Billion Dollar Whale: Bradley Hope on 1MDB
18 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of his new podcast series, Kieran Beer sits down with author and Wall Street Journal reporter Bradley Hope to examine the story b...