Financial Crime Weekly Podcast

About Financial Crime Weekly Podcast

Welcome to the Financial Crime UK Weekly podcast. I’m Chris Kirkbride and I lecture law. This is an introductory podcast to give you a guide as to the sort of things which we will be looking at on this podcast in the first week of every month. However, there will be specials and additional podcasts out of this sequence if something happens which is significant and deserves a special episode. So, what are the sort of things we’ll be talking about? Well, we will cover news, events, legal developments, and anything else that relates to financial crime, in the UK – obviously, because that is in the podcast title – but also in other jurisdictions. No man is an island and financial crime certainly does not respect national borders. Broadly, the coverage will be all aspects of: Fraud | Bribery | Market abuse and insider dealing | Money laundering and terrorist financing | Data and information theft | Cybercrime (phishing / smishing) and the challenges generated by fintech in terms of finance crime threats. While these might be financial crimes, strictly speaking, but that is not all. It is necessary to reflect on the responses to financial crime which the state adopts. While this is less about fines and imprisonment, we will focus on confiscation and recovery schemes, sanctions imposed on those who have committed financial crimes, together with arrangements designed to allow the offender to avoid/defer prosecution, namely, deferred prosecution agreements. Consideration will also be given to the regulatory architecture of financial crime, both domestic and international – as stated, financial crime does not respect borders – together with regulatory enforcement and aspects of the compliance industry – the industry which helps commercial entities stay on the right side of the law. Finally, and this is a particular interest of mine, but I am fascinated by the interface between criminal and civil law where the facts of an event could lead to prosecution or civil action. Consequently, while this is a financial crime podcast, we will also consider those situations where the civil law might bring about a robust response to financial wrongdoing. So, that’s it from me for now except to say that the podcast is available from the usual places, Google Podcasts, Spotify, iTunes, and others.

Publisher

Christopher Kirkbride

Category

business · education · news · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Aug 2020

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

199 of 308 episodes have a transcript.

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   8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Financial Crime Weekly Episode 287

   Host Chris Kirkbride discusses recent global sanctions, fraud enforcement, money laundering prosecutions, and ransomware network disruptions in this interview.

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   4 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Financial Crime Weekly Episode 286

   Host Chris Kirkbride discusses US Treasury actions against cyber-fraud networks, UK sanctions, and significant fraud and corruption cases, offering insights into global financial crime trends.

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   1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Financial Crime Weekly Episode 285

   Host Chris Kirkbride discusses UK sanctions convictions, AML reports for Canada and Türkiye, US/UK fraud actions, and international anti-corruption efforts in this interview.

Inside a recent episode

Financial Crime Weekly Episode 287

Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] The update specified two vessels, namely the Gal Energy and Bebek-E. under shipping and trading sanctions, prohibiting UK persons from chartering or operating the ships, providing port access or delivering financial, technical and operating services. In addition, the FCDO has issued administrative corrections to the listings for Marat Arkadevich Kambolo and Artur Balarevich Olov, confirming that both individuals remain subject to asset freeze, travel ban, trust service sanctions and director disqualifications while revoking earlier vessel entry records to align with the newly updated listings. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

3.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

48

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

81

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