The Laundry

About The Laundry

The Laundry is the podcast connecting AML (anti-money laundering), compliance, and financial crime to the real world! Dive deep into the intricacies of financial crime, AML (anti-money laundering), compliance, sanctions, and the ever-evolving landscape of global financial regulation. Hosted by Marit Rødevand (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodevand/), Fredrik Riiser (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fredrik-riiser-596b22129/), and Robin Lycka (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinlycka/)– this podcast features renowned experts from banking, fintech, regtech, compliance, and investigative journalism. Together, they shed light on the industry's trending topics, analyse mainstream news through a compliance-focused lens, and connect the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing to its real-world consequences and ramifications. The Laundry is proudly produced by Strise, the AML Automation Cloud. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Strise

Category

business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Jan 2022

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

37 of 207 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   E177: How dangerous is crypto's hold on politics?

   Host Robin Lycka and Peter Geoghegan, Director of Democracy for Sale, explore the dangerous influence of cryptocurrency on politics and its implications for financial crime enforcement.

2. 

   1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   E176: Are Pokémon Cards fincrime’s hottest new toy?

   Host Robin Lycka interviews Paolo Aprile and Nick Jarman about how Pokémon cards become a lucrative tool for financial crime.

3. 

   24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   E175: How did vape shops become the frontline of money laundering?

   Host Marit Rødevand interviews Sal Melki, Deputy Director of Illicit Finance at the National Crime Agency, exploring how vape shops became fronts for money laundering and how to combat this financial crime.

Inside a recent episode

E177: How dangerous is crypto's hold on politics?

Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I think it's both different and the same. I guess what makes it different in some ways is the scale. You know, we've there's a lot of reporting out there just about the scale of money some people have made out of their involvement with crypto exchanges. You know, you're talking about hundreds of millions and billions of dollars in very short spaces of time from very opaque exchanges. exchanges that people own or are there investments in things like Bitcoin? So there's a lot of questions. In some ways, one of the differences is the scale of money that people have to put into politics. But some of the similarities are really that we are seeing like, you know, crypto doing what other types of industries have done in the past, which is buying a lot of political influence. […]

Who has been a guest on The Laundry

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Peter Geoghegan
• Paolo Aprile
• Nick Jarman
• Sal Melki
• Quentin Downes

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

157,639

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.3 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

98 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 80 / 100

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

Quality

91

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

85

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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