KYC Talk Show

In this episode, host Stephen Platt, is joined by guest Stephen Kohn - one of America's leading whistleblower lawyers. Having represented several whistleblowers including former UBS employee Bradley Birkenfeld, Stephen Kohn discusses the hugely important implications of the extension of US whistleblowing provisions to AML.

In this episode, host Stephen Platt, is joined by guest Robert Mazur - author of The New York Times bestseller The Infiltrator. Stephen and Robert discuss Robert's new book The Betrayal which details a second 2-year undercover assignment he carried out subsequent to the events in The Infiltrator.

In this episode, host Stephen Platt is joined by guest Jonathan Benton, CEO of Intelligent Sanctuary. Stephen and Jonathan discuss topics such as asset recovery and the UK's Economic Crime Bill as well as pondering the question; is there a time and place for opaque lists?

In this episode, host Stephen Platt is joined by Ruth Paley, a Legal Director in Eversheds Sutherland’s Corporate Crime and Investigations team. Ruth and Stephen examine what does the recent NatWest fine issued by the FCA really mean for financial institutions in the UK and getting the balance right between good compliance tech versus boots on the ground. About Ruth: Ruth Paley is a Legal Director in Eversheds Sutherland’s Corporate Crime and Investigations team. She is ranked as a key lawyer in risk advisory, regulatory investigations and corporate crime and is ‘one of the leading names in anti-money laundering work in London, with a depth of knowledge few in the City have’ [Legal 500 2021]. She is an expert in all aspects of white collar crime and fraud, with a focus on advising a range of multinationals, financial institutions and individuals on compliance with the UK anti-money laundering (AML) regime including POCA 2002 and MLR 2017.

In this episode, host Stephen Platt is joined by Mike Parker to discuss the role sanctions play in the fight against crime. Mike Parker is a former federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (“MLARS”). During his six-plus years at MLARS, Mike was responsible for money laundering and forfeiture investigations of transnational criminal organizations and foreign threat actors, including serving as the lead MLARS prosecutor for the “Panama Papers” case. Mike also served as a subject matter expert on economic sanctions for MLARS and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices across the country. In 2017, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) awarded Mr. Parker with the FBI Director’s Award for Outstanding Counterintelligence Investigation for his work on a North Korea-related sanctions evasion and money laundering case.

Join KYC360 CEO and founder, Stephen Platt as he speaks to Major Andrew Fox about the parallels that can be drawn between how the army and the financial services industry handle their processes and how they mitigate risks.

Join AML Talkshow host and KYC360 CEO & founder, Stephen Platt and guest, Edmund McCormack, the CEO of Dchained, a crypto-based education and advisory platform, and Managing General Partner of Dchained Capital. Edmund is a tech industry veteran with 15 years of executive experience at leading organizations, such as Apple, MySpace and Teads. Stephen and Edmund discuss topics such as crypto's bad reputation in compliance changing to a full embrace of the sector, the steps for cryptocurrencies and regulation as well as enhancing the level of protection in your business.

Since co-founding the organisation back in 2012, Peter Bainbridge-Clayton has overseen the implementation of kompany’s proprietary global live network, which offers users real-time access to official and audit-proof information for regulated and unregulated industries. He is a true blockchain and AI enthusiast with a varied background in high throughput telecoms and government systems, including leading the redesign and implementation of the UK Government Business Register, Companies House.

Since being appointed Chief Executive at British fraud prevention service, Cifas, in May 2018, Mike has actively worked to grow the community of stakeholders sharing data, intelligence and insight in the pursuit of preventing fraud and financial crime. Mike is passionate about Cifas becoming the driving force behind fraud prevention in the UK and with over 30 years’ experience of tackling and preventing fraud across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, he is determined to bring together a strong cross-sectoral collaborative approach to tackling fraud. 

Matt Taibbi is an award-winning investigative reporter and one of America’s more recognizable literary voices. The son of a television reporter and a lawyer, Matt grew up admiring Russian writers, which led him to spend most of his early adult life in the former Soviet Union, where he focused on participatory journalism. On his return to the US in 2002, Matt began work as a contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine, where he won the National Magazine Award for commentary. He is best known for his coverage of four presidential campaigns, of the 2008 financial crisis, and the criminal justice system; and his many books include "Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America" (2010), and "I Can't Breathe" (2017).

Tom Burgis is an investigations correspondent at the Financial Times. He has reported from more than forty countries, won major journalism awards in the US and Asia and been shortlisted for eight others, including twice at the British Press Awards. His critically acclaimed first book, "The Looting Machine", about the modern plundering of Africa, won an Overseas Press Club of America award, and he has just published the highly regarded "Kleptopia, How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World".

Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is estimated to be worth around $20bn per year, making it the 4th largest crime on a global level. Many criminal syndicates perceive it to be a low-risk and highly profitable model, and FATF and United for Wildlife Foundation have highlighted the convergence of IWT with narcotics, human trafficking, arms trade and counter-proliferation, and financial threats. IWT also fuels corruption, has serious environmental and biodiversity costs, as well as potentially significant impacts for public health and national economies. In particular, the recent high profile spread of zoonotic diseases (ie the coronavirus pandemic) underlines the importance of ensuring that wildlife is traded in a legal, safe and regulated manner, and that countries remove the profitability of illegal markets.

Lawyer George Pearmain is the Director of Financial Crime Strategy for the Government of Jersey. Jersey, as a leading International Finance Centre, places its responsibility to counter financial crime at the top of the jurisdictional agenda, and George works with a team of experts across the Jersey authorities and wider industry stakeholders to ensure that Jersey remains a leading jurisdiction in risk understanding, risk mitigation and continues to innovate in relation to the ongoing global fight against financial crime. George has also worked recently in the Secretariat at FATF, and currently acts as Head of Delegation for Jersey to MONEYVAL.

For nearly 30 years, Elise Bean worked as an investigator for Senator Carl Levin, including 15 years at the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations leading inquiries into money laundering, offshore tax abuse, corruption, and corporate misconduct. After Senator Levin retired, she helped establish the Levin Center at Wayne Law in his honor, and now works for the Center to help legislatures conduct oversight investigations. Elise has also authored a book: Financial Exposure: Carl Levin’s Senate Investigations into Finance and Tax Abuse.

Dartanyon Antwaun Williams was the student teachers loved to hate and one of his classmates’ favourites. He graduated with a 4.0 GPA and technical training certifications, then promptly set it all aside to pursue criminal aspirations. The unprecedented sophistication of his crimes earned him consultancies with the FBI, Secret Service, Louisiana Bureau of Investigation, Louisiana State Police, and US Attorney’s Offices for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Louisiana, helping their respective agencies better understand, prevent, and mitigate identity theft. Now, Dartanyon is an advocate, consultant, evangelist, public speaker and serial entrepreneur - and is currently running for election to the U.S. Senate.

Alex Brunwin and Anthony Flemmer are the chairman and CEO respectively of Defence Logic, a Jersey-based cybersecurity firm which provides cyber-awareness training, and cybersecurity consulting and solutions to clients around the world. Both have extensive experience in the fintech space.

Jack, who is joining the AML Talk Show for a second time, is a Washington lawyer who is an expert on white-collar financial crime and international tax evasion. He served for many years as a U.S. Senate staff attorney, where he was involved in numerous well-known investigations, including those of Lockheed Aircraft and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). He has helped several banks build their anti-money laundering systems. Jack is now a senior advisor to the Tax Justice Network and has worked as a consultant and expert witness for the US Internal Revenue Service. He has represented numerous whistle-blowers and once said of Lichtenstein "if the family business of the absolute monarch of this place is assisting tax evasion, a felony in the US, the place is a criminal enterprise, not a country."

Jim is the Principal and Founder of RegTech Consulting, a private consultancy aimed at developing the next generation of BSA/AML and financial crime professionals, technologies and programs. Previously Jim worked for over 10 years as the BSA Officer, Global Head of Financial Crimes Risk Management at Wells Fargo & Co, and before that he served as the Global Anti-Money Laundering Operations Executive for Bank of America. Jim was also a founding member of the ACAMS advisory board, has spent five years serving as Assistant District Attorney, Special Investigations Unit in Cambridge, MA, and is the author of “Transnational Criminal Organizations, Cybercrime, and Money Laundering” (CRC Press, 1998).

AML Talk Show host Martin Woods on the other side of the mic with host and KYC360 CEO Stephen Platt

AML Talk Show host Martin Woods with guest speaker Graham Wilson, former police detective and telecoms risk officer, discussing mobile phones and data management

Tom Keatinge is Director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at RUSI and we're delighted to welcome him to the AML Talk Show. Tom's research focuses on matters at the intersection of finance and security, including the use of finance as a tool of intelligence and disruption. His research on finance and security considers a number of themes including terrorist financing, human trafficking and modern slavery, new approaches to tackling financial crime and corruption. He also co-leads RUSI’s work on counter-proliferation finance, the design and implementation of financial sanctions and the role of finance and financial investigation in disrupting wildlife crime and the illicit trade in wildlife products.

Ian is Head of the UK Financial Intelligence Unit in the National Crime Agency, which receives, analyses and disseminates suspicious activity reports submitted under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and the Terrorism Act 2000. Nearly half a million reports are managed by the UKFIU each year, and the Unit is undergoing significant change. Prior to that he undertook a number of roles in the NCA, including overseeing the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce and developing law enforcement proposals for legislation. He started his career at HM Treasury, where he was responsible for domestic anti-money laundering policy. 

Graduating from both Oxford and Harvard, Tom Mueller is author of the book, Crisis of Conscience: whistleblowing in an age of fraud, a cultural history of whistleblowing and fraud.

Jack is a Washington lawyer who is an expert on white-collar financial crime and international tax evasion. He served for many years as a U.S. Senate staff attorney, where he was involved in numerous well-known investigations, including those of Lockheed Aircraft and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). He has helped several banks build their anti-money laundering systems. Jack is now a senior advisor to the Tax Justice Network and has worked as a consultant and expert witness for the US Internal Revenue Service. He has represented numerous whistle-blowers and once said of Lichtenstein "if the family business of the absolute monarch of this place is assisting tax evasion, a felony in the US, the place is a criminal enterprise, not a country."

We’re so pleased to be able to welcome Robert Mazur to the KYC360 AML Talk Show, in conversation with leading AML expert and KYC360 CEO, Stephen Platt. 

Mark Hays is the campaign leader, anti-money laundering, Global Witness

Bill Browder is a an American-born British financier and political activist. 

Gerard Ryle led the worldwide teams of journalists working on the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers investigations, the biggest in journalism history. Ryle is a book author and TED speaker. He has won or shared in more than 50 journalism awards from seven different countries, including the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. He and his ICIJ colleagues also shared an Emmy Award with the U.S. television program 60 Minutes. In this exclusive interview he talks to Martin Woods about the Panama and Paradise Papers leaks and their impact on the political, legal and financial landscape.

David Lewis sits at the helm of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) the international AML standard setting body responsible for global AML standards and the evaluation of countries against them. In this exclusive interview he talks to KYC360 about AML successes and failures and the role of jurisdictions and businesses alike in the battle against AML and predicate criminality.