Financial Crime Weekly Podcast
Welcome to the Financial Crime UK Weekly podcast. I’m Chris Kirkbride and I lecture law.
This is an introductory podcast to give you a guide as to the sort of things which we will be looking at on this podcast in the first week of every month. However, there will be specials and additional podcasts out of this sequence if something happens which is significant and deserves a special episode.
So, what are the sort of things we’ll be talking about? Well, we will cover news, events, legal developments, and anything else that relates to financial crime, in the UK – obviously, because that is in the podcast title – but also in other jurisdictions. No man is an island and financial crime certainly does not respect national borders.
Broadly, the coverage will be all aspects of:
Fraud | Bribery | Market abuse and insider dealing | Money laundering and terrorist financing | Data and information theft | Cybercrime (phishing / smishing) and the challenges generated by fintech in terms of finance crime threats.
While these might be financial crimes, strictly speaking, but that is not all. It is necessary to reflect on the responses to financial crime which the state adopts. While this is less about fines and imprisonment, we will focus on confiscation and recovery schemes, sanctions imposed on those who have committed financial crimes, together with arrangements designed to allow the offender to avoid/defer prosecution, namely, deferred prosecution agreements.
Consideration will also be given to the regulatory architecture of financial crime, both domestic and international – as stated, financial crime does not respect borders – together with regulatory enforcement and aspects of the compliance industry – the industry which helps commercial entities stay on the right side of the law.
Finally, and this is a particular interest of mine, but I am fascinated by the interface between criminal and civil law where the facts of an event could lead to prosecution or civil action. Consequently, while this is a financial crime podcast, we will also consider those situations where the civil law might bring about a robust response to financial wrongdoing.
So, that’s it from me for now except to say that the podcast is available from the usual places, Google Podcasts, Spotify, iTunes, and others.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 198
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 184
Hello, and welcome to episode 184 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I am Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, on sanctions news, OFSI has set a deadline for reporting frozen assets, delisted Ilya B…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 183
Hello, and welcome to episode 183 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I am Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, we look at the US Treasury's actions against Palestinian NGOs and Southeast Asian cyber…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 182
Hello, and welcome to episode 182 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I am Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, OFAC settled a penalty with Fracht FWO Inc. for violations involving Venezuela and Iran…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 181
Hello, and welcome to episode 181 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I am Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, we look at US Treasury's action against an Iraqi-led network for smuggling Iranian oil …
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 180
Hello, and welcome to episode 180 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I am Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, we bring you up to speed on the latest developments in financial crime, starting with m…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 179
Hello, and welcome to episode 179 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I am Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, we delve into developments across the globe, starting with US sanctions targeting Irani…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 178
Hello, and welcome to episode 178 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I am Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, we look at actions by OFAC targeting a narco-terrorist network and expanding sanctions …
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 177
Hello, and welcome to episode 177 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I am Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, we look at recent sanctions targeting Iran's UAV network and clarification of UK trade …
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 176
Hello, and welcome to episode 176 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, we look at developments in sanctions enforcement, including the US imposing sanctions on…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 175
Hello, and welcome to episode 175 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, we look at sanctions, anti-money laundering, and regulatory enforcement. Highlights incl…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 174
Hello, and welcome to episode 174 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, we look at US Treasury sanctions against a Houthi petroleum smuggling network and a clan…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 173
Hello, and welcome to episode 173 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast – midweek edition – I’m Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, we outline significant global efforts to combat financial crime, part…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 172
Hello, and welcome to episode 172 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, we unpack a sweeping set of global enforcement actions and policy updates—from Interacti…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 171
Hello, and welcome to episode 171 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. This episode looks at the FCA’s £42 million penalty against Barclays for critical compliance failures, ex…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 170
Hello, and welcome to episode 170 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. This episode unpacks a wide range of developments—from targeted sanctions and regulatory refinements to e…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 169
Hello, and welcome to episode 169 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. This episode covers a global sweep of the latest enforcement actions and regulatory developments, from US…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 168
Hello, and welcome to episode 168 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. This episode explores a sweeping range of global enforcement actions and regulatory developments. Highlig…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 167
Hello, and welcome to episode 167 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. This episode covers a wide-ranging set of developments across the sanctions, fraud, market abuse, and cyb…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 166
Hello, and welcome to episode 166 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. This episode covers a breadth of developments across the financial crime landscape—from a push to reform …
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 165
Hello, and welcome to episode 165 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast – midweek edition – I’m Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, we look at the sweep of global enforcement actions, including expande…