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 expanded US sanctions targeting Iran’s defence networks and the Houthi oil smuggling operation, alongside EU measures against Syrian elites for human rights abuses. We cover FATF’s push to align financial inclusion with AML priorities and examine how scammers are exploiting funeral livestreams. You'll also hear about moves to improve whistleblower protections, generational divides in reporting workplace misconduct, Europol’s warning on youth extremism, and renewed scrutiny of corporate transparency in the BVI. All that plus the latest on cryptocurrency crime-fighting in Armenia, anti-SLAPP training in Serbia, and a landmark confiscation order in a UK fraud case.

A transcript of this podcast, with links to the stories, will be available on Thursday at www.crimes.financial.