The Laundry

E178: Are criminals better at collaborating than we are?

The Laundry

Show Notes

Recorded on stage at the International Anti-Financial Crime Summit in London.

Are criminals better at collaborating than we are?

If there’s one thing this industry loves, it’s the promise of a silver bullet – the thing that stops financial crime in its tracks. And the one that keeps getting proposed is information sharing: public with private, private with private, and every arrangement in between.

So is it still worth believing in?

Marit Rødevand is joined by Kathryn Westmore, Director of Financial Crime at UK Finance, Kevin Newe, Illicit Finance Threats Lead at HMRC, and Matt Donahue, CEO and Co-Founder of Kodex.

The panel discuss why information sharing hasn’t always worked, what we’d build differently if we started from scratch, and what stops us being as creative as the criminal networks we’re chasing.

Executive Producer: Matthew Dunne-Miles Editor: Dominic Delargy Video: Loïs Dunford/Tinashe Gutu

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