Shows
The LaundryE116: Why remediation projects are spiking!Many institutions are running at one hundred miles an hour to keep up with compliance, new regulations, and sanctions.But sometimes, it’s crucial to slow down and ensure everything is running smoothly before you’re forced to slam on the brakes.Remediation projects act as a critical tune-up, helping financial institutions stay ahead of fines, money laundering risks, and threats to customer funds.Our expert host, Marit Rødevand, is joined by Steve Lamb, COO of Kyckr, and Eoin Davis, Director of Consulting Division at Davies, to discuss: why remed...
2025-03-2731 min
AML ConversationsVerifying your Counterparty in Today’s Complex Data World – an Interview with Steve LambThe challenges of “knowing” your counterparty, beneficial ownership, and using data-driven tools to attack financial crime are global goals. In this conversation, Kyckr COO Steve Lamb discusses the BO landscape, corporate registries, FATF guidance, and how verification is a key AML-related tool.
2025-03-0530 min
The Kyckr PodcastRegistries Revealed | Episode 3: Ireland... with Ben CroninWelcome back to Registries Revealed, a new podcast which deep dives into the complex world of company registers.
In episode three, Steve is joined by Ben Cronin, one of Kyckr's original founders, to discuss the Ireland's Companies Registration Office, or CRO.
Together they attempt to answer key questions including:
How does Ireland's company registry system compare to the UK and Australia?
What types of data is available through the CRO and RBO?
How reliable is the data, particularly for UBO filings?
How has Ireland responded to the 2022 CJEU ruling?
2024-12-0431 minThe Kyckr PodcastRegistries Revealed | Episode 2: Australia... with Alex BeckWelcome back to Registries Revealed, a new podcast series which deep dives into the complex world of company registers. In episode two, Steve is joined by our very own Alex Beck, Head of Product at Kyckr to discuss Australia's registers. Together they attempt to answer key questions including:Why are three different Australian business registers and what purpose do they serve? What role do ‘information brokers’ play in the Australian system? Was it fair for a recent independent review to describe Australia’s registry system as providing a ‘poor digital experience’? Is Australia likely to have a publ...
2024-11-2033 min
The Kyckr PodcastRegistries Revealed | Episode 1: UK Companies House... with Graham BarrowWelcome to the inaugural episode of Registries Revealed, a new podcast series which deep dives into the complex world of company registers. Across ten episodes, our host, Steve Lamb, COO of Kyckr, will investigate the national registers in ten global financial centres, accompanied by local experts from each region. Get ready for insightful discussion and expert analysis that explores key topics relevant to Financial Crime, including: The legal framework that underpins each registerThe register’s usefulness as a tool for Financial Crime and AML teams What data and f...
2024-11-0424 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 23 - ECOMMBX’s Gregory Dellas: How to Cultivate a Culture of Compliance Within Your Organizationhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/12eceygkzzspiif/Gregory%20Dellas.mp3?dl=0
In today’s episode of the Future of KYC Compliance, Ian is joined by Gregory Dellas, Chief Compliance and Innovation Officer at ECOMMBX. Gregory highlights the importance of staying current with regulatory changes, being one step ahead of criminals, and properly utilizing technology in the fight against financial crime.
Gregory, founder and Chair of the ACAMS Cyprus Chapter, is a certified CAMS and GCI certified trainer, a Fellow of the International Compliance Association and a long-standing member of the Anti-Money Laundering Professionals Forum. He shares how these organizations enabled him to...
2022-12-1424 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 22 - Revolut’s Nelson Yiannakou: The importance of data sharing in AML and financial crime preventionIn this episode of the Future of KYC Compliance, Ian joins Nelson Yiannakou, Regional Money Laundering Reporting Officer ( APAC ) at Revolut, as he shares his views on the current state of AML obligations and compliance in Australia. We touch on some of the bigger financial crime monitoring challenges faced by regulators today, and Nelson gives us a fresh perspective on the importance of having a sound AML environment and a robust financial crime prevention system.
Topics discussed:
- Nelson’s three-decade long career in financial risk management and financial crime prevention
- A brief intro to Revolut and the services it...
2022-11-1625 min
Your Truth Shared#24 Building Businesses and Solving Problems with Ben CroninMany things can go wrong when starting a business. However, with strategic business planning, robust connections, great marketing and perseverance - things can go oh so right! This week, serial entrepreneur Ben Cronin joins Finola to discuss his entrepreneurial journey of building businesses and solving problems. Ben is the co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Kyckr (formerly GBR) and UBO Service. Kycker is a B2B business verification provider, and UBO Service is the leading online provider of anti-money laundering services, facilitating smaller to medium size businesses.
Ben is in the heart of a fascinating sector. In...
2022-10-0451 min
The Fintech Marketers and Leaders PodcastThe Future of KYC Compliance with Ian Henderson, CEO at KyckrSend us a textThe perceived value of your product or service can make or break your business.“You live and die by your service proposition,” says Ian Henderson, CEO at Kyckr.From former CEO at Shawbrook Bank, one of the first UK Challenger banks, to COO of Barclays Wealth Private Banking, it’s no secret Ian is a fintech legend.We sat down with Ian to talk about how Kyckr helps organisations verify, onboard and monitor their customers with instant access to primary source company data. Join host, Shameer...
2022-10-0331 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 21 - Dow Jones Joel Lange: Trends Shaping Risk Management and Financial Crime ComplianceIn today’s episode of the Future of KYC Compliance, Ian is joined by Joel Lange, General Manager of Risk and Compliance at Dow Jones.
Topics Discussed:
What drew Joel into the world of financial crime prevention
The scope of Joel’s work with Dow Jone’s risk and compliance management
Key AML and financial crime risks we have today
The shift from KYC to KYB
Primary trends in risk management and financial crime compliance
Main challenges financial organizations face in mitigating risks
How to maintain a successful AML program
The importance of continuing education and training for organizations to effective...
2022-09-0926 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 20 - ICIJ’s Will Fitzgibbon: How Investigative Journalism is Contributing to Combat Financial CrimeInvestigative journalism has been key to discovering illicit financial flows, tax heavens and the challenges of reforming the international financial infrastructure.
Every investigation and every leak brings progress in the search for transparency, it raises the bar for financial institutions, and the pressure against financial crime actors.
In today’s episode we are joined by Will Fitzgibbon, a senior reporter with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Will has reported on ICIJ projects, including West Africa Leaks, Paradise Papers and Panama Papers and he also coordinates ICIJ’s partnerships with journalists in Africa and the Middle East.
Topics discussed in this...
2022-03-2933 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 19 - Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Dan Stipano: Why Financial Crime is A Perennial IssueTechnology is a double edged sword. On the one hand it gives compliance professionals better tools to catch the bad actors, but it also empowers criminals to perpetrate their actions successfully.
Today we are joined by Dan Stipano, Partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell, who has extensive regulatory and enforcement experience including more than 30 years at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
Dan helped us understand how our anti-money laundering frameworks have been struggling mightily to keep up with developments and we reflect on the challenges to improve in our fight against financial crime.
Topics discussed in this ep...
2022-03-1524 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 18 - ACAMS’s Lauren Kohr: Challenges of Complying With AML Regulatory ObligationsWhether it is laws, regulations, guidance, or issuances, the processes that make our regulatory regimes more effective are slow. By the time we reach consensus and refine our standards, criminals are doing something else.
Lauren Kohr has been in the anti-financial crime sector for over 16 years. She currently serves as Senior Director of AML at ACAMS, the largest international membership organization for Anti-Financial Crime professionals.
In today’s episode, she helped us reflect on how AML professionals experience the compliance process, the role of AI in AML and the B-side of disclosing sensitive financial crime information.
Topics discussed in this ep...
2022-03-0128 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 17 - ANU’s Anton Moiseienko: Why Targeted Sanctions Can’t Systematically Prevent Illicit Financial FlowsWe’ve repeatedly seen how large financial institutions are fined for AML compliance failures and breaches that other organizations have experienced in the past.
What’s the role these sanctions truly play in preventing financial crime recurrence?
In today’s episode, we are joined by Anton Moiseienko, a Lecturer at the ANU College of Law who not only has been studying the legal and policy aspects of targeted sanctions but also but also has extensively researched on emerging technological risks and the financial footprint of cybercrime.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- What drew Anton to the world of financial crime.
...
2022-02-2231 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 16 - Dchained’s Edmund McCormack: How Blockchain Technology Can Help Advance AML and KYC CapabilitiesEdmund McCormack is the founder of Dchained and has been in the crypto-blockchain space since 2011.
From a starting point where lack of transparency was a fact, the industry has evolved now to a state where it’s extremely difficult to move money without being traced.
How can we leverage blockchain, biometrics, and other types of technology to advance our AML and KYC capabilities?
In today’s episode, Ed joined us to debunk a few myths around the role of cryptocurrencies in financial crime and to open the discussion on what blockchain technology can bring in to the fight against bad acto...
2022-02-1535 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 15 - Insight Threat Intelligence’s Jessica Davis: Misconceptions and Challenges of Combating Terrorist FinancingAlthough it’s truth that some of the most well established terrorist organizations tend to mirror organized crime and money laundering techniques, there are many misconceptions around the level of innovation, involved mechanisms and detectability of these activities.
Jessica Davis is the President of Insight Threat Intelligence and in today’s episode she deep dives into the world of terrorist financing, what we are lacking to detect this type of crimes, and how terrorist financing activities differ depending on where bad actors are operating.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- How Jessica got into the world of CTF.
- Why AML...
2022-02-0829 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 14 - PMA Media Group’s Willem Wellinghoff: What Compliance Officers Should Know About Fighting Against Financial CrimeWhat are the skills that make a compliance officer successful?
Willem Wellinghoff is PMA Media Group’s Global Chief Compliance and UK MLRO Officer and he achieves over 15 years of experience in the financial services, financial crime and technology sectors.
What makes Willem’s insights unique is the combination of his compliance skills with the lessons learned from mentoring startup accelerators and bringing these lessons to his daily job.
If you’d like to know how you can help making compliance engaging and interesting in your organization, this is the episode for you.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Willem’s backgr...
2022-02-0128 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 13 - Fraudio‘s João Moura: Fighting Financial Fraud In PaymentsThe financial industry is plagued with systemic failures and new ways of committing crime seem to be accelerating rather than decelerating.
Are we doing enough to prevent fraud and money laundering? Or are we building solutions that are mainly focused on detection? Is there a one-to-one correlation with the amount of money that you spend on these tools? Or is it rather more important the type of technology you are using?
João Moura is the CEO of Fraudio, an Amsterdam based tech company that leverages AI, vast data sets and real time signals to detect and prevent customer/ merchant i...
2021-11-0321 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 12 - Featurespace’s Dave Excell: Why Financial Crime Prevention is a Joint EffortIf financial criminals are always one step ahead, what should organizations be doing to catch up with the bad actors?
Today‘s guest has one simple yet powerful answer: working together. If fraudsters and financial criminals are cooperating with each other by sharing technology, analytics and information to succeed in their schemes, wouldn‘t it be logical for organizations to do the same?
Dave Excell is the founder of Featurespace, a company using machine learning and Adaptive Behavioral Analytics in the fight against complex fraud and money laundering. In today‘s episode, he shines a light on why organizations should join t...
2021-10-2720 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 11 - CrossTower‘s Vanessa Williams: KYC Compliance Challenges In a Mobile-First WorldTechnology is taking the lead in the world of KYC compliance and onboarding clients, safely, is and will remain a challenge.
What are the tools criminals use to fabricate an online persona? How do we make sure we are onboarding a real person when we ask for a selfie?
Vanessa Williams is the Global Chief Compliance Officer and AML/CFT Officer of CrossTower, a digital asset capital markets firm with offices in Bermuda, the US, and India. In today‘s episode, Vanessa touches on the most pressuring challenges when onboarding clients and how technology is creating benefits as well as ne...
2021-10-2123 min
The FS Club PodcastPrivacy Enhancing Technologies & Their Potential For Global ImpactFind out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3HrXoEn
Privacy Enhancing Technologies, or PET’s, are a class of Advanced Cryptography that will enable data collaborations without the need to share or expose sensitive data.
We believe that Confidential Collaborative Computing is the next major development that will take place in the growth cycle of decentralised computing services. It will enable organisations to work together to provide services, solutions and advanced analytics that require inputs from a variety of different organisations without the need for those organisations to aggregate, share or expose their organisation’s da...
2021-07-3045 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 10 - LexisNexis Risk Solutions’s Tracy Manning: How Collaborative Networks Can Help Fight Financial CrimeFraudsters and financial criminals operate globally and the only way to fight this network is with a network.
Tracy Manning has over 25 years of experience driving data strategy, innovation and growth efforts within companies like AT&T, Cox, Twitter, Cincinnati Bell, and GroundTruth. She is now Director of Financial Crime Compliance at LexisNexis Risk Solutions.
In this episode, she shines a light on the challenges that KYC compliance teams have to catch up with current market trends and to move from controls that are largely manual, retroactive, and fully reliant on physical identity.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- How...
2021-07-2716 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 9 - Guidepost Solutions’s Megan Prendergast Millard: Why Financial Crime is An International EnterpriseMegan Prendergast Millard has an outstanding record in the world of AML and financial crime compliance.
During her almost 15 years at the New York State Department of Financial Services, she supervised investigations of licensed institutions in a wide range of areas including BSA/AML, OFAC sanctions, market manipulation, virtual currency as well as all other banking and insurance matters. She was the recipient of the Superintendent’s Award in 2012, 2016, and 2017 for her work on investigations including the Standard Chartered Bank, Société Générale and BNP Paribas for U.S. sanctions and anti-money laundering violations.
As Senior Managing Director at Gui...
2021-07-2024 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 8 - Jumio’s Bala Kumar: Leveraging The Power of Data to Counteract Financial CrimeBala Kumar is Chief Product Officer at Jumio, an end-to-end identity verification and eKYC platform that helps businesses protect against fraud, money laundering, and financial crime.
Bala brings over 20 years of product innovation experience to the world of KYC compliance. A true believer in the power of data, he offers insights on the role of product and technology in addressing the problems of financial crime.
Want to know how your company can free up some time, stress less over compliance and penalties, and work more on your core business? Then this episode is a must-listen.
Topics discussed in this episode:
...
2021-07-1329 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 7 - Panag & Babu‘s Sherbir Panag: Corporate Criminal Misconduct and White-Collar CrimeSherbir Panag is the chair of Panag & Babu, an internationally acclaimed and highly respected Compliance and Investigations Practice.
Sherbir‘s experience in defending multinational companies and conducting internal investigations in matters involving criminal and regulatory proceedings has earned him the reputation of a ”brilliant lawyer” and an ”amazing problem solver”.
These matters have involved allegations of bribery and other misconduct under Indian and foreign anti-corruption laws such as the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, U.K. Bribery Act; financial and regulatory fraud; procurement fraud; infrastructure fraud; violation of sanctions laws; and violation of corporate governance and corporate policy norms.
Today‘s epi...
2021-07-0627 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 6 - FIBA‘s David Schwartz: Regulation and Fines In The International Banking LandscapeDavid Schwartz is a lawyer by training with more than 30 years of experience in the banking world. He is the President and CEO of the Florida International Bankers Association (FIBA), a nonprofit trade association dedicated to fostering the growth of international banking through education, advocacy, and networking with a strong focus on compliance.
David‘s trajectory and his deep knowledge of the international banking landscape give great insights into today‘s problems and challenges for financial institutions and what he sees as raising in the near future.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- FIBA‘s mission and emphasis on reaching out bey...
2021-06-2931 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 5 - John Cassara: How Terrorist Financing and Money Laundering Have Evolved in The Past YearsJohn Cassara began his 26 year U.S. government career as an intelligence officer during the Cold War. He later served as a Treasury Special Agent in both the U.S. Secret Service and US Customs Service, where he investigated money laundering, trade fraud and international smuggling. He was an undercover arms dealer for two years. Assigned overseas, he developed expertise in Middle East money laundering, value transfer and underground financial systems. Concerned about trade-based money laundering, he invented the concept of Trade Transparency Units (TTUs). He also worked six years for Treasury’s FinCEN and was detailed to the Department of...
2021-06-2230 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 4 - The AML Training Academy‘s Kevin Sullivan: What Organizations Get Wrong About AML complianceKevin Sullivan, CAMS, CCI spent 21 years with the New York State Police, where he saw the correlation between crime and money laundering on his first detail in undercover narcotics. He followed the money moving to a major crimes unit which led to an assignment with the FBI led Hudson Valley White Collar Crimes Task Force. For his last 9 years with the State Police Kevin was assigned to the New York HIFCA (High Intensity Financial Crimes Area) of the ICE led El Dorado Task Force in Manhattan, where he was the NY State Money Laundering Investigations Coordinator.
This is one of...
2021-06-1526 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 3 - CDD Pro‘s Tim Parkman: Combating Financial Crime with Effective TrainingTim qualified and worked in the litigation department of what is now the City law firm, Dentons before joining the Standard Chartered Banking Group, where he held a number of senior operational legal and compliance positions in London, Singapore, India and the UAE.
Tim now divides his time equally between Lessons Learned Ltd, his award-winning company specializing in the provision of integrity and financial crime business education and consulting services to an international client base, particularly for boards, senior management teams and staff in high risk business units and CDDPro Ltd, an AI start-up delivering intelligent customer onboarding and remediation...
2021-06-0827 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 2 - The Dark Money Files‘s Graham Barrow: Understanding The State of Financial Crime and Money LaunderingGraham has worked in financial services for the past twenty years, latterly providing subject matter expertise to a number of high-profile banks in relation to their financial crime control frameworks. He also works closely with a large number of investigative journalists helping them to identify and write about organised crime and corruption including both the FT and Berlingske (Danish newspaper) on the Danske Bank scandal and the ICIJ on the FinCEN Files.
Graham regularly speaks at in-house and public events to raise awareness of the close links between financial crime and the organised criminal gangs and corrupt individuals who are...
2021-06-0127 min
The Kyckr PodcastFuture of KYC Compliance | EP 1 - Billion Dollar Whale‘s Author Bradley Hope: The Role Banks Play in Enabling Money Laundering and Financial CrimeBradley Hope is the co-author of Billion Dollar Whale and Blood and Oil. He spent seven years at the Wall Street Journal’s offices in New York and London. Before that, he covered the Arab Spring from Cairo, Tripoli, and Beirut. He is a Pulitzer finalist and a winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for International Reporting.
Join our CEO, Ian Henderson who finds out from Bradley, the man, who uncovered one of the biggest financial scandals of all time:
- Where did the idea for writing Billion Dollar Whale come from?
- When it comes to how they went ab...
2021-05-2325 min
INVESTOLOGY: re-think investment managementFighting Money Laundering with Data | Ian Henderson - KyckrIn this episode of The Fintech Files, I have the pleasure of speaking with Ian Henderson, the CEO of Kyckr. We investigate how new technology can help fight money laundering.We’re discussing KYC (know your customer) obligations and how businesses use corporate data to bulletproof their compliance.Kyckr (Regtech) is a global business register to help with know your customer processes for anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit investorama.substack.com
2021-04-0224 min
PayPod: The Payments and Fintech PodcastExploring KYC and AML with Ian Henderson of Kyckr: Ep 162Banks, payments businesses, and other financial institutions need to stay on top of AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and KYC (Know Your Customer) regulations... especially if they're operating globally. Failure to do so can lead to fines, and worse. Our guest is Ian Henderson, CEO of Kyckr, a global business register that helps with KYC processes for AML regulations. Listen along as he walks us through the latest! Find show notes and more at: https://www.soarpay.com/podcast/
2021-04-0128 min
IBS Intelligence PodcastsEp172: Why was 2020 a blockbuster year for anti-money laundering (AML) fines?Ian Henderson, Chief Executive Officer, KyckrRegulators across the globe took aggressive action against AML violators, handing down major financial penalties and in some cases, lengthy prison sentences to the individuals involved. 28 financial institutions were issued fines totalling more than $3.2 billion for AML-related violations last year, according to Kyckr’s 2020 AML Bank Fines Report. Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence discussed the report’s findings with Ian Henderson, CEO of Kyckr.
2021-03-1208 min
CQ Roll Call Policy and PoliticsFintech Beat: Kyckr gives the scoop on anti-money laundering complianceKyckr CEO Ian Henderson joins the show to share the company's latest report canvasing where anti-money laundering enforcement has taken off and why. Plus: Do local authorities tend to target international companies? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2021-02-2318 min
Fintech BeatKyckr gives the scoop on anti-money laundering complianceKyckr CEO Ian Henderson joins Chris Brummer to share the company's latest report canvasing where anti-money laundering enforcement has taken off and why. Plus: Do local authorities tend to target international companies? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2021-02-2318 min