How to Fuse Open Banking and Human Interaction
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Will automation and technology spell the end for delivering financial services in person? Will brick and mortar branches disappear from our high streets forever? The debate about automation in banking is often binary - either everything must automated, or nothing should be. You’re either pro-innovation or pro-status quo. Today’s guest is building a company that challenges this polarizing narrative. Duncan Cockburn is the founder and CEO of OneBanks, a high-growth FinTech offering fully staffed, accessible kiosks where consumers can access the services of any bank - be it a digital...
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Cross-Chain Crime: The New Frontier in Crypto Laundering?
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Tom Robinson is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Elliptic, a firm that has pioneered blockchain analytics for financial crime compliance since 2013. Tom joins Will Thompson to explore new research published by Elliptic on cross-chain bridges. Tom and Will also discuss OFAC's sanctioning of virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash. Check out Elliptic's research on cross-chain crime here: https://hub.elliptic.co/analysis/cross-chain-crime-more-than-half-a-billion-dollars-has-been-laundered-through-a-cross-chain-bridge/
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Enhancing risk management and detection with AI
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Any financial compliance professional knows that data can be both your greatest asset and your worst enemy. Siloed, manual data sets can be costly and time-consuming to manage… and still leave firms open to breaching regulations, and letting criminals through. Martin Rehak is the founder and CEO of Resistant AI. The company uses AI and machine learning to provide identity forensic solutions. In essence, it adds an AI layer on top of firms’ existing fraud and money laundering solutions, helping them to identify new risks and prioritize potential threats.
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Digital ID and Financial Inclusion with Smile Identity
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Mark Straub is the CEO of Digital KYC firm Smile Identity. It aims to offer the widest reach across Africa, covering over 1 billion identities. Last year the company closed a successful $7 million Series A funding round. Mark joins us to discuss the importance of financial inclusion, the role of Africa in the future of FinTech, and how Smile Identity will ensure its products can scale effectively.
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Challenger Banking in the United States with Colin Walsh
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Once described as the Winston Churchill of banking, Colin Walsh is a true industry veteran, taking on senior roles at Lloyds and American Express before founding Varo in 2015. Today, Varo has over 4 million customers, and remains the first and only consumer FinTech with a US banking charter.
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Finance and Banking for the Creator Economy
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One of the many benefits of the dynamic FinTech environment across Europe today is its ability to design and develop innovative solutions to the needs of specific groups of users. Creators are one such audience. It's estimated that 50 million people worldwide consider themselves creators. Almost 2 million of those are professional creators, making a living from their passion full-time. They’re a diverse bunch, generating revenue from YouTube, Twitch, Instagram acting, podcasting, writing and illustrating. Today we’re speaking to an entrepreneur who has made serving this audience his...
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Uncover Live: Christian Faes, LendInvest & FinTech Founders
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This special live edition of the Uncover podcast was recorded at London’s Royal Institution in front of a live audience of more than 300 members of the ComplyAdvantage team from the UK, United States, Singapore and Romania. Our guest for this special discussion is Christian Faes. Christian is the co-founder and Executive Chair of LendInvest, a property finance marketplace that has lent more than £4 billion to support house building in the UK. Prior to founding LendInvest, Christian was a real estate lawyer in Australia and the UK, co-founding the company in 2008. Christian...
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North Korea: Proliferation Financing and Sanctions Evasion with RUSI
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In our 2022 State of Financial Crime survey, North Korea was listed as one of the top 3 geopolitical hotspots firms globally are most concerned with. So we’re delighted to have with us today two experts from RUSI’s Center for Financial Crime and Security Studies - Sasha Erskine and Tom Keatinge - to tell us more about their latest research in this area. Specifically, they've been researching designated non-financial businesses and professions - or DNFBPs - and how they're being exploited by North Korea. Check out their research here: https://static.rusi.org/271_EI_DNFBPs_Final.pdf
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KYC: Towards a Network-Based Approach to Risk
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In this episode David Birch, Principal at 15Mb and author, advisor and commentator on digital financial services joins us to to talk about what it really means to “Know your customer.” Download today's show to explore one of the biggest questions in AML: Are high barriers to entry when it comes to accessing financial services really effective in preventing and detecting financial crime?
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How to Scale an AML/CFT Program for Crypto
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Our State of Financial Crime 2022 report found that a whopping 98% of firms say they are crypto native, offer crypto services, or are planning to do so in the future. So, with crypto services now reaching a mass audience, how do firms scale their compliance efforts? To explore this question we’re be joined by Brandi Reynolds, Managing Director at the Bates Group, a leading consultancy firm working across the AML and compliance space. Brandi is also Chief Compliance Officer at eToro and Voyager.
info_outlineIn our 2022 State of Financial Crime report, 41% of firms globally said that fraud detection was one of the key areas of their AML compliance programs they’re looking to improve this year. So for this episode we're joined by Hubert Rachwalski, CEO at Nethone. Nethone is a Poland-based fraud detection company using machine learning to detect and prevent card-not-present fraud and account takeover. They also describe themselves as a ‘Know Your Users’ company.
In a recent technology report, Deloitte named Nethone Poland’s fastest growing company, and the team raised almost $7m in its Series A funding round in July 2021.