Captivated Audience: A Financial Crime Podcast

Part II of Sam Sheen and Marie Lundberg's discussion with Eric Wagner, Head of Financial Crime, Erste Group where they review the changes that the Working Group have proposed to eIDAS and EU AML regulations to allow for greater reliance by financial institutions on eKYC, the absence - and importance - of a single standard on eKYC - and the many different groups working separately on their own set of standards and why cracking the problem of KYC in Europe is fundamental to its future as a digitally enabled economy.

Denisse Rudich, Founder, Rudich Advisory, speaks with Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen about her career in banking, FinTech and AML/CFT compliance, working with an NGO, the role of the G7 in relation to AML regulation of cryptocurrencies, her upcoming project that's keeping it in the family - ELEMENTARYb and why Angela Merkel rocks the power suit.

Matt McGuire of The AML Shop on Canada's changing AML's laws, BCP planning,criminal minds taking advantage of this current environment, and keeping in touch with your colleagues. Take advantage of the time to ramp up your knowledge on topics such as crypto-currency.

Ch-ch ch-ch changes! Al Catto joins Sam Sheen and Marie Lundberg to talk about his company, Beyond and their speciality - change transformation involving AML/CFT programmes. Turning around failed RegTech or even onboarding processes is no easy task. Al shares his insights on the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to successfully implementing a transformation project. Want faster KYC? Streamlined CDD onboarding? Will KYC RegTech solve the cost of compliance every time? And where does customer data fit into all of this? Learn about the tips - and traps - that firms often fall into when trying to solve that ever present problem - the balance between operations and customer satisfaction and the cost of financial crime compliance. Part 1 of 2 podcasts.

Vincent White, UK Director, Facepoint chats with Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen about the use of biometrics and facial recognition technology for KYC and in the detection of illicit actors; the future of biometrics as a component of customer due diligence, its use in improving sanction screening results and screening in general, GDPR and privacy considerations and whether make-up, tattoos or plastic surgery can be used to confound biometric matching.