The Laundry
Episodes
E79: How Wirecard's collapse shaped the future of whistleblowing
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Wirecard scandal has become the subject of legend in the financial industry.The German payments company, formerly worth tens of billions of euros,...
E78: The financial crime risks of Sweden’s cashless society dream
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sweden is the global poster-child of the journey to completely digital transactions – with the number of Swedes using cash falling from 39% in ...
E77: Can compliance professionals tackle romance fraud?
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You may have seen the Netflix documentaries, TikTok sagas, or long-read articles about charming con artists using elaborate stories to extract life sa...
E76: The rise of state-backed gangsters
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are witnessing the birth of a new criminal class complicating life for authorities, AML professionals, and law enforcement. In today’s episode, o...
E75: What Elon Musk needs to know about AML and compliance
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk, owner of ‘X’ (or Twitter), has announced plans to turn the social media platform into an app that is the centre of ‘someone’s entir...
Bonus: Økokrim og DNB om utfordringene, samarbeidet og veien videre
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
(Episode in Norwegian) I denne spesielle bonus-episoden tar vi for oss en nyhetssak som har dominert flere norske medier den siste tiden – nemlig ut...
E74: Sanction Me Not: The evolving landscape of sanctions in 2024
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Roses are red, violets are blue. Sanctions are working – or is that statement untrue?With global tensions rising; sanctions have moved from the subj...
E73: Know Your Donor: How elections are influenced by dark money
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Every political election is pitched as the biggest and most significant – but in 2024, more than half the world's population (that’s four bil...
E72: How do we stop MLRO burnout?
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Money Laundering Reporting Officers are a vital component of financial services - a crucial link between companies, the risks they face, and the ...
E71: Exposing the money laundering secrets of the insurance industry
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ask yourself: What are the first three words that come to your mind when you think of insurance?Security? protection? safety?I doubt many would think:...
E70: How to spend a financial crime compliance budget
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The start of a new year often means money is flowing and big plans for the new year are being put into place. Statistics from LexisNexis suggest ...
E69: Trump, sanctions, narcotics: Predicting the fight against financial crime in 2024
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Phillip K. Dick’s classic sci-fi novel Minority Report, by the year 2054, future crimes are predicted and solved before they happen using psychic...
Trailer: Make The Laundry your New Year's resolution!
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The podcast connecting AML, compliance and financial crime to the real world is back with 12 fresh episodes – with your hosts Marit Rodevand an...
Bonus: Live fra DNB's Banksjefseminar: Fremtidens AML
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
(Episode in Norwegian) Velkommen til en innsiktsfull bonus-episode tatt opp live fra DNB sitt Banksjefseminar. I denne episoden samler vi noen av de f...
E68: Deepfakes, de-banking, OCGs: The financial crimes stories that mattered in 2023
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s our final episode of the season and it’s time for some reflection at the end of the 2023!While financial crime continues to make big headline...
E67: One year on: How ChatGPT is supercharging financial crime
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
November 30th marked exactly a year since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.Since then we’ve seen: a record 1 million users in just five days, now mo...
E66: How Russian money still flows through Europe
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Following the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia became the most-sanctioned country in the world – with more than 14,000 sanctions currently i...
E65: KYC in 2024: What should be on your roadmap?
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Due Diligence, Enhanced Due Diligence, Ongoing Due Diligence, Know Your Customer, and Know Your Business – if you’re reading this then you’re mo...
E64: Can we kill the scam call for good?
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You receive a call. Your account has been compromised – you need to move all your funds to a different secure account. The person on the o...
E63: De-banking: What is a PEP, anyway?
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve picked up a British newspaper, switched on the TV, logged on to social media, or attended a political party conference – there is one wo...
E62: How money laundering is fuelling Sweden’s gang crime epidemic
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With over 130 bomb attacks, a record numbers of shootings, and a criminal network estimated to include over 30,000 individuals – Sweden is in t...
E61: Why the UK should pay attention to the Economic Crime Bill
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s face it. When it comes to money laundering – the UK is a serious player! If money laundering was an olympic sport – research sug...
E60: I went from a life of crime to an anti-corruption hero
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest for this episode is unique to The Laundry so far!In 2007, he was convicted under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for the kind of financial...
E59: Exposing the dark money at the heart of UK universities
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The University of Oxford is currently *the* top higher learning institution in the world and two more British universities also make it into the top 1...
E58: Can banks tackle human trafficking?
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Human trafficking is one of those terms which hides a lot of human suffering.Estimates put the number of people trafficked globally at around 27 milli...
E57: How can compliance keep the legal world ethical?
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Law firms are responsible for some of the largest transactions globally – from M&As, to real estate deals, to setting up new companies.But ...
Welcome to The Laundry
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From fine art to global wars – financial crime is everywhere! So, how does the industry keep up, who are the people fighting crime on the front...
E56: How crypto fuels the deadly fentanyl epidemic
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You've probably seen the disturbing images in the news—people appearing like zombies, ravaged by the ruthless grip of the deadly drug, Fentanyl.In t...
E55: How to combat Trade-Based Money Laundering
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dive into the complexities of Trade-Based Money Laundering (TBML) in this insightful episode.Join us with our guest, Bruce Viney, the Director of Fina...
E54: Why compliance teams can't afford to miss the AI train
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, we speak with Patrick Skjennum, CTO of Strise, to delve deep into the fascinating world of Generative AI and its potential imp...
E53: Why banks are increasingly worried about the shipping industry
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we're diving into the murky world of shipping and its challenges for banks. With little oversight and a global reach, the maritime in...
E52: Money launderer's friend or enemy? We invited ChatGPT to our podcast.
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a special episode where we're thrilled to announce a very famous guest, ChatGPT!In this thought-provoking discussion, we delve into the com...
E51: The dark secrets of North Korea's cyber army
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready to uncover the secrets of one of the world's most notorious hacking groups - The Lazarus Group.In this episode, we chat with investigative j...
E50: Combining intelligence and sanctions: Uncovering the next move of criminals
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as we sit down with Jørgen Holmlund, who brings over 25 years of experience in intelligence, to discuss sanctions and intelligence work. ...
E49: Silicon Valley Bank: A risk management nightmare?
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we'll take a closer look at the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), one of the biggest US bank runs in over a decade.We'll examine...
E48: AML trends 2023 and beyond
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last week we hosted, The Laundry Live - a live-streamed community event featuring subject-matter experts such as; Louise Brown, Graham Barrow, Gregory...
E47: The episode the money launderers don't want you to hear
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as we uncover the truth behind Britain's 'kleptocracy capital'.Award-winning and investigative journalist Oliver Bullough joins this week's Th...
E46: The key takeaways from FCG's AML State of Play report
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, we're deep-diving into FCG's "AML State of Play report", a comprehensive study of the AML practices of ten of Denmark's larges...
E45: How effective are neobanks' financial crime controls?
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2022, the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority in the UK) raised the possibility that criminals may take advantage of the speedy onboarding process of ...
E44: How the ridiculous UK business register fuels financial crime
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guess where the business name 'Adolf Tooth-Fairy Hitler' is registered?Registering a business at Companies House, the official business registry in th...
E43: How Vipps MobilePay turns compliance into a competitive advantage
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As Head of Risk and Compliance at Vipps MobilePay, one of Europe's largest fintech companies, Silke Øverby knows that compliance is more than just a ...
E42: Is the EU's new UBO ruling a Christmas gift to criminals?
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The EU's new Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO) ruling has been making headlines all over Europe. At first glance, it appears to be a major win for t...
E41: Dette må du vite om den nye veilederen til hvitvaskingsloven
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
(Episode in 🇳🇴) Finanstilsynet publiserte nylig et oppdatert rundskriv til hvitvaskingsloven som gir uttrykk for Finanstilsynets tolkning og for...
E40: How Danske Bank keeps up with the evolving sanctions measures.
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The financial frontline of Russia's war in Ukraine runs through the offices of overworked sanctions officers at banks and financial institutes everywh...
E39: How a naive compliance culture opened the doors for money-laundering.
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week's special guest is Swedbank's former Chief Compliance Officer Viveka Strangert, also known through media as the "whistleblower" in the massi...
E38: How do we move from ‘1%’ to greater AML efficiency?
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Billions are invested in KYC, but only 1% of money laundering is stopped. So why is that?This week we have AML expert Louise Brown from Financial Comp...
E37: Crypto - the biggest Ponzi scheme ever?
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Now the popular crypto exchange FTX is bust, and crypto is plummeting. What happens next?We've invited the biggest crypto sceptic of them all to The L...
E36: The 3 main challenges in corporate transaction monitoring.
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
(Episode in 🇬🇧) In today's episode, we go through Magnus' report on corporate transaction monitoring. We also include tips on what banks can do ...
E35: Bedriftsovervåkning gjennom Økokrims øyne.
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Denne uken har vi besøk av leder i enheten for finansiell etterretning (EFE) i Økokrim, Sven Arild Damslora.Jobben til teamet hans er å ta i mot ra...
E34: Why a siloed approach to AML, fraud and cyber crime no longer works.
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cybercrime and financial crime are moving closer and closer together.A growing number of cyber-attacks are believed to be the work of organised crime ...
E33: What is the next frontier in AML?
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Banks and financial institutions at the forefront are moving into the next frontier of AML. They focus on four primary areas, which we look more close...
E32: A whistleblower's perspective in a billion dollar corporate theft
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
4.5 billion dollars from the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, also known as 1MDB, was diverted to enrich the fund’s directors and even the former Ma...
E31: Everything wrong with traditional compliance.
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can Compliance Officers deliver more human-centric programs? Traditional compliance programs often do not think about behavioral drivers. Instead,...
E30: Is LEI a game-changer for AML?
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is a unique 20-character, alpha-numeric code that contains information about an entity's ownership structure and thu...
E29: "Bitcoin? Sorry, that's outside of our banks' risk appetite."
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Crypto-native companies have lacked a stable and secure banking foundation to run their businesses without fear of being shut down by their banking pa...
E28: Høst-kickoff med Finanspolisen
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Før Fipo-sjef, Nicklas Lundh går over i sin nye rolle som leder for strategisk etterretning i SEB har han tatt seg tid til en prat med oss. I denne ...
E27: Wirecard - How a European fintech was exposed as a billion dollar fraud
04 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For the final episode of season 1 of The Laundry, we invited investigative reporter, Dan McCrum to speak about his work on the Wirecard-story. This is...
E26: Foregår det mer korrupsjon i Norge enn vi tror?
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Forrige uke arrangerte vi FinCrime afterwork i Oslo med tema korrupsjon for over 100 bransjekollegaer. Vi var så heldig å få med Erling Grimstad fr...
E25: How big is AML, really?
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, former McKinsey and AML expert Magnus Johannesen takes you through how big the AML market is, what challenges the banks and financial...
E24: Hvorfor korrupsjon er en kreftsvulst av en annen verden.
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Økokrimsjef, Pål Lønseth sammenlignet korrupsjon med en "kreftsvulst av en annen verden" på Antikorrupsjonskonferansen. Og de siste ukene har nyhe...
E23: Hvordan skape en karriere innen anti-hvitvask?
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vi har invitert Danske Bank sin dyktige SAR (Suspicious activity report) Officer, Anette Kristensen, for å snakke om hvordan man skaper seg en karrie...
E22: Dette betyr åpenhetsloven for din bedrift.
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Fra og med 1. juli i år trer åpenhetsloven i kraft. Og i studio har vi fått besøk av John Peder Egenæs, generalsekretær i Amnesty og Kristina Ov...
E21: Er bankene godt nok rigget for neste "å faen-øyeblikk"?
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sorte svaner (Black Swans) er en betegnelse på uventede og ofte alvorlige hendelser. Da russiske stridsvogner krysset Ukrainas grense morgenen 24. fe...
E20: Slik jobber Nordea for å hindre svindel.
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Denne uken snakker vi med svindel-ekspert, Ida Marie Edholm i Nordea. Hvordan jobber en av Nordens største banker med å bekjempe svindel? Hva er sos...
E19: What does the future of KYC look like?
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The rising cost and complexity of AML are forcing banks to rethink their approach to KYC. There's a lot of talk about "Perpetual KYC" and "Risk-based ...
E18: Slik vinnes kampen om ESG ledertrøya.
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Handelsbanken har over mange år bygget opp et omfattende ESG-arbeid. Og vi er så heldige og har fått med oss Hilde Nordbø i studio, som er leder f...
E17: Hvordan kan NFT-er brukes til hvitvasking?
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lenge før NFT-er (Non-Fungible Tokens) eksisterte, har kunst blitt brukt som "store of value", og med det følger en lang historie med hvitvasking av...
E16: Where does the big flow of ransom money go?
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last two years, ransomware attacks have skyrocketed. And new research from blockchain surveillance firm Chainalysis shows that ransomware gan...
E15: Why crypto money laundering is booming.
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Kimberly Grauer. She is the director of research at Chainalysis, where she examines trends in cryptocurrency and crime. Kimberl...
E14: Hvordan bekjemper Oljefondet økonomisk kriminalitet?
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vi har fått besøk av Oljefondets konsernsjef for compliance, Carine Smith Ihenacho. I denne kjempe interessante episoden får du blant annet høre m...
E12: Finanstilsynet om bruk av teknologi innen AML og overvåkning.
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Blir Finanstilsynets, Anders Schiøtz Worren og AML-ekspert, Magnus Johannesen omsider enige? Lovverket sier at alle transaksjoner som bankenes overvå...
E11: Hvordan påvirker krigen arbeidshverdagen til bankene?
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hvordan påvirker Russland og Ukraina krisen arbeidet i bankene, og hvordan jobbes det nå med å overholde de nye sanksjonene? For å finne ut av det...
E10: Jakter vi røvere eller compliance?
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Del 2/2: I denne episoden fortsetter vi den veldig spennende praten med Andreas Prestegaard Engstrand fra KPMG. Vi diskuterer bla. inneffektiviten i a...
E09: Røverhistorier fra Kongo med granskningslederen i KPMG.
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Del 1/2: Denne uken har vi besøk av Andreas Prestegaard Engstrand, leder i KPMGs granskingsavdeling og CEO i Convier. I denne utrolig spennende episo...
E08: PEPs, sanctions, and the Ukraine-Russia crisis.
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we host sanctions specialist Louie Vargas from Danske Bank. Vargas has experience from some of the world's biggest banks in different sanct...
E07: Hva blir AML trendene i 2022?
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"AML perspektivmeldingen 2022" (2/2): Har Covid endret spillereglene og hvilke trender bør du være obs på i 2022? Sammen med en av Norges ledende A...
E06: Hva bøtelegges ved tilsyn og hva kan ditt selskap gjøre for å bli bedre?
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"AML perspektivmeldingen 2022" (1/2): Vi har fått besøk av Julie Odden, tidligere sjef for finansiell kriminalitet i Sbanken og nå en av gründerne...
E05: Hvordan jobber Norges største bank med AML?
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I femte episode gjester DNB sin sjef for anti-hvitvasking podden. Hege Hagen forteller blant annet om hvordan DNB jobber for å gjøre AML til et konk...
E04: En skurkejeger forteller hvem hvitvaskerne egentlig er.
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Denne uken har vi fått besøk av tidligere toppleder i Økokrim, etterforsker i både Politiet og FN, og nå leder i Advokatfirmaet Erling Grimstad. ...
E03: Økokrimsjefen svarer på kritikken og forteller om teknologiene de selv bruker.
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I tredje episode av The Laundry er vi så heldige å få besøk av Økokrimsjef, Pål Lønseth. I denne episoden kommer det blant annet frem at Ø...
E02: Hvilket ansvar har ledelsen og styret i antihvitvaskingsarbeidet?
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I episode to av The Laundry får du Swedbank saken forklart. Du får gode råd fra ekspertene i studio på hva bankens ledere bør gjøre for å bli b...
E01: En populærvitenskapelig episode om anti-hvitvasking (AML).
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I første episode av The Laundry diskuterer vi spennende temaer som; Hvordan hvitvasker man egentlig penger? Gjør økokrim jobben sin godt nok? Hvord...