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 144
Hello, and welcome to episode 144 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. A reasonably busy week this week. On sanctions, changes to various regimes from the UK, including a shift…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 143
Hello, and welcome to episode 143 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. The news is certainly starting to pick up now. There has been an increase in designations, principally fr…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 142
Hello, and welcome to episode 142 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. The news is starting to pick up now after the Christmas and New Year lull. On sanctions, additions to the…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 141
Hello, and welcome to the first episode 141 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. This week has been a quiet week, which in some cases will be due to the collective holding-of-b…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 140
Hello, and welcome to the first episode 140 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. This week, the sanctions have increased across a range of the usual suspects: Russia, Sudan, an…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 139
Hello, and welcome to the first episode of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast of 2025 – episode 139 – I’m Chris Kirkbride. The end of the calendar year and the beginning of the new calendar year offe…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 138
Hello, and welcome to the final episode of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast for 2024 – episode 138 – I’m Chris Kirkbride. On sanctions, new designations from the US and UK, and enforcement action a…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 137
Hello, and welcome to episode 137 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. On sanctions, new designations from the US and UK, and Politico asks whether tariffs are the new sanction…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 136
Hello, and welcome to episode 136 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. On sanctions, new designations from the UK, EU and US. On money laundering news, AUSTRAC has welcomed the…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 135
Hello, and welcome to episode 135 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. On sanctions, new designations from the UK and US, and new licences from the UK. On money laundering news…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 134
Hello, and welcome to episode 134 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. On sanctions, new designations and legislative changes in the UK, while in the US, there is enforcement a…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 133
Hello, and welcome to episode 133 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. On sanctions, enforcement action in the US and UK, and new designations in the UK. On money laundering, a…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 132
Hello, and welcome to episode 132 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. Another relatively quiet week overall, and I can assure you that is not a complaint. On sanctions, licens…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 131
Hello, and welcome to episode 131 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. A relatively quiet week overall, which is a good thing for me. Some sanctions movement in the US and UK, …
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 130
Hello, and welcome to episode 130 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. Sanctions news has taken centre-stage this week, with the US issuing new designations across the range of…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 129
Hello, and welcome to episode 129 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. New designations from the US and UK, and the UK marks OTSI being open for business. On money laundering, …
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 128
Hello, and welcome to episode 128 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. After a few relatively quiet weeks, we are back up to the lengthy episodes of the podcast. New designatio…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 127
Hello, and welcome to episode 127 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. Another shorter episode this week, so I think we can all be pleased about that. On sanctions news, new de…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 126
Hello, and welcome to episode 126 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. After a sequence of lengthy episodes of the podcast, it’s nice to have a shorter episode from time-to-tim…
Financial Crime Weekly Episode 125
Hello, and welcome to episode 125 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. On sanctions this week, a mass of action from the UK and US. In the UK, action against the shadow fleet c…