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 UK sanctions oversight and new MONEYVAL progress reports on North Macedonia and Romania, to the FATF’s latest warnings on illicit finance risks in the virtual asset sector. It also features FinCEN’s landmark action against Mexico-based banks linked to fentanyl trafficking, a UK textile trader sentenced for laundering romance scam proceeds, and a former TD Bank employee in Florida who opened over 100 fraudulent accounts for bribes. We round things off with the SFO’s entry into a global anti-corruption alliance, major cybercrime revelations including the largest-ever credentials breach, and the long-awaited publication date for the first volume of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry.

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