A series of podcasts which explain to a non-technical audience how "Dark Money" (e.g. money laundering, corruption, bribery, tax evasion) enters the financial system and infects everything it touches.
With a forthcoming new requirement which makes it mandatory for UK payment service providers (PSPs) to reimburse the victims of some types of fraud, we look at the rules and how they are likely to play out.
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Taking a slightly different direction from our normal content, we step back and look how the landscape of crime has changed over the years, and how in the process it has become democratised.
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Following the news that nearly 800 restaurants in the UK have been cloned over the last few weeks, we thought we’d bring you the story behind the story.Â
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It’s over to EU
After a succession of episodes looking at the UK financial crime landscape, we shift our focus over the channel to Europe and the proposed changes to EU AML legislation.
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Following some recent banking shenanigans, there’s been a rapidly introduced change in the UK law relating to PEPs.
We think it needs to be put into a global context.
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In this second part of our review of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act, we look at the provisions relating to failing to prevent fraud, crypto assets, information sharing and Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs).
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Following the enactment of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act, reform is on the way to Companies House.
But what does it look like and when will it happen?
Here's our initial overview.
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In this episode we walk the path from certainty to impossibility, via probable, possible and plausible.
A conversation involving wind turbines, zebras and UFOs.
You need to listen to understand!
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In this second episode devoted to ultimate beneficial ownership, we delve into the world of exchange traded companies and the esoterica that is trusts.
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In this episode we, somewhat belatedly, begin to tackle the thorny issue of identifying ultimate beneficial ownership.Â
And we do so by pointing out that the “ownership” part of UBO is a bit misleading because it doesn’t cover control or influence.
But then a UBOCI is a bit of a mouthful.
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In this episode we walk through a recent, in-depth report into probable VAT and employment tax fraud reported on by Dan Neidle of the Tax Policy Associates, in partiucalr, how various different proessionals, individuals both here and abroad, and social media websites can be used, wittingly or unwittingly, to further the fraudsters aims.
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