Financial Crime Weekly Episode 282

Welcome to episode 282 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast. I am Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, on money laundering and financial integrity, a FinCEN Exchange targets Iranian illicit finance networks, a RUSI commentary evaluates the effectiveness of the global FATF architecture, and the UK government unveils a £550 million Anti-Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Strategy. In corruption enforcement, a former French Minister stands trial over alleged lobbying payments. Addressing fraud, UK regulators and oversight bodies have released joint guidance clarifying telecoms data-sharing protocols. In cryptoassets, there is joint UK enforcement actions against unregistered peer-to-peer trading operations, alongside key outcomes from the 10th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptoassets. Finally, on cybercrime, the UK regulator has launched an industry engagement initiative examining the capabilities and security risks of AI in telecommunications cyber defence.

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

The photograph on the podcast cover art is by Sora Shimazaki at Pexels, and the stinger sample between each news section is ‘Ben Logo 1’ by BenKirb from Pixabay.