A podcast about the untold stories and secrets of corporate investigations, risk, and compliance. Hosted by experienced women in the field. Tune in for real stories, case studies, expert tips, and industry insights. If you are a professional in compliance, risk, due diligence, investigations, and strategic intelligence - this is your new favourite weekly podcast!
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Season 2 closes where it began — with piracy — but the story has changed completely. Sylwia and Amritha trace the money from a 2009 hijacking in the Indian Ocean through to today's headlines, where presidents and prime ministers are throwing the word "pirate" at each other in the Strait of Hormuz.
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With 500+ multilingual specialists across 80+ jurisdictions, A Data Pro catches risks before they catch up to you. Find out more at adata.pro
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Combining deep local access with analytical rigour, Metis helps clients uncover the people, networks, and dynamics that shape outcomes. From enhanced due diligence and complex investigations to strategic intelligence and ESG risk assessments, their work is defined by context, nuance and discretion. Find out more at www.metisinsights.co.uk
Resources:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8122858.stm
https://africa.cgtn.com/faces-of-africa-afweyne-big-mouth-and-the-somali-pirates-2/
https://time.com/article/2026/05/22/how-trump-s-war-with-iran-is-giving-somali-pirates-an-opening/
24 Jun 2026
The One on Crypto Investigations - with Isabella
Has crypto really earned its reputation as the payment method of choice for drugs, arms and everything else illicit — or is the headline image overblown? In this episode, Amritha and Sylwia sit down with Isabella to look at the reality of crypto-enabled financial crime.
This is a slightly different episode for the season: rather than focusing on a single predicate offence, the conversation digs into the payment method itself — how crypto intersects with bribery and corruption, sanctions evasion, terrorist financing and ransomware, and when it's the heart of a scheme versus just a layering tool bolted onto a classic typology.
We also go into what a crypto investigation actually looks like, how it differs from fiat, where blockchain analytics hits its limits, and why you still need KYC, OSINT and human judgement alongside it.
Resources:
https://www.trmlabs.com/beacon-network
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We're proudly independent — but we partner with companies who share our passion for smarter due diligence and investigations.
This episode is exclusively sponsored by TRM Labs, a leading blockchain intelligence company helping financial institutions, crypto businesses and public agencies detect, investigate and prevent crypto-related financial crime. TRM's platform powers the kind of on-chain tracing and investigation work we explore in this episode — turning complex blockchain activity into actionable intelligence. Find out more at: https://www.trmlabs.com/
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17 Jun 2026
The One Where AI Meets Compliance in the Wild - with Sabela
Can AI actually do compliance tasks? Not in a demo, but in the messy reality of conflicts of interest, speak-up reports, third-party risk and investigation reviews?
In this episode, Sylwia and Amritha sit down with Sabela, Director of Compliance & Ethics at EQS Group, to unpack what EQS learned from putting the leading AI models through their paces.
Drawing on the EQS AI benchmark studies - 120 tasks across 10 core compliance areas, run twice in quick succession — Sabela shares a refreshingly hype-free view of where AI is genuinely ready, where it needs guardrails and where we shouldn't pretend the technology is mature yet. This is a candid conversation about real capability, real limits and what it all means for compliance teams.
Read the research behind this episode- The EQS AI Benchmark Report Vol. 2: AI Performance in Compliance & Ethics.. Download it free here: https://www.eqs.com/compliance-wpapers/eqs-ai-benchmark-report-vol-2/?utm_source=eqs_marketing&utm_medium=landing&utm_campaign=&utm_content=top-banner
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We’re proudly independent — but we partner with companies who share our passion for smarter due diligence and investigations.
This episode is exclusively sponsored by EQS Group, a leading provider of compliance, ethics and integrity software — and the team behind the AI Benchmark Report Vol. 2 we explore in this episode. EQS put the latest frontier AI models through 120 real-world compliance tasks to see how they actually perform. Find out more at: https://www.eqs.com/
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