Podcasts about AML

In this week's episode of This Week in AML, John Byrne and Elliot Berman break down Treasury's renewed sanctions campaign against Iran and discuss what it could mean for global trade, enforcement efforts, and China's role in the sanctions landscape. They also examine the U.S. decision to remove Syria from its State Sponsors of Terrorism list, a move that could pave the way for reintegration into the global financial system and future engagement with FATF standards. Additional topics include Singapore's new Social Media Code of Practice aimed at reducing financial scams on major platforms, Europol's warning about increasingly violent museum heists, updates from OCCRP on corruption and money laundering investigations, and the FDIC's efforts to streamline the deposit insurance application process for new banks. Plus, a look at recent anti-corruption research from the Basel Institute on Governance and upcoming AML-focused educational events.

The N.C. Transportation Museum, Trains Magazine, White River Productions, Scale Trains, Virtual Railfan, and Jack & Audrey Harris are excited to present the America 250 Locomotive Celebration August 28-30 at the N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC!! And we here at the AML Nation are excited to present our very own Marcus Neubacher (the AML's most eligible bachelor) with a complete run-down of the upcoming events.   Experience a once-in-a-generation railroading event as the North Carolina Transportation Museum hosts the first and only gathering of commemorative locomotives from Class One, short lines, and passenger railroads, all specially painted to celebrate America's semi- quincentennial. Set against the iconic Bob Julian Roundhouse, this extraordinary display of red, white, and blue locomotives is expected to create one of the most memorable railroad photography opportunities of the America 250 celebration.

In this episode of This Week In AML, Joe McNamara fills in for Elliot Berman and joins John Byrne for a packed week of AML news on both sides of the Atlantic. The conversation opens with the fallout from Treasury and FinCEN's final rule eliminating domestic beneficial ownership reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act, then moves to Transparency International's guidance for EU member states that have not yet published a national anti-corruption strategy. Ireland, one of the six late adopters named in that report, has now released its first national AML/CFT/CPF strategy, and John walks through its five strategic goals and three pillars ahead of AMLA supervision and FATF evaluation. The hosts also cover the UN Security Council's 38th Monitoring Team report on ISIL, AMLA's warning that money laundering in the EU property sector could deepen the housing crisis, and the OCC's conditional approval of a national trust bank charter for World Liberty Trust Company, along with the sharp objections raised by Senator Elizabeth Warren and others over conflicts of interest. Stateside, they close on Treasury: an unreleased internal report on the risks of an AI bubble, and the department's public request for comment on GENIUS Act implementation. John rounds out the episode with a $165 million crypto Ponzi indictment reported by OCCRP. Links Referenced Transparency International, Good Practices for National Anti-Corruption Strategies in EU Member States: https://knowledgehub.transparency.org/helpdesk/good-practices-for-national-anti-corruption-strategie... Ireland Department of Finance, Ireland's First National Anti-Money Laundering Strategy: https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-finance/press-releases/t%C3%A1naiste-and-minister-for-finance-si... UN Security Council, 38th Report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team (S/2026/651): https://docs.un.org/en/S/2026/651 AML Intelligence, AMLA Urges Crackdown on Money Laundering in EU Property Sector: https://www.amlintelligence.com/2026/08/news-amla-urges-crackdown-on-money-laundering-in-eu-property... OCC, Conditional Approval for World Liberty Trust Company (CD 1385): https://www.occ.gov/topics/charters-and-licensing/interpretations-and-decisions/2026/cd1385.pdf NOTUS, Treasury Internal Report Warns of the Dangers of an AI Bubble: https://www.notus.org/economy/treasury-internal-report-warning-dangers-ai-bubble?utm_source=content_... U.S. Treasury, Request for Public Comment on GENIUS Act Implementation: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0605

John Byrne is joined by Sarah Beth Felix, author of Dirty Money Weekly, for their monthly conversation on financial crime developments. They start with FinCEN's final rule ending Corporate Transparency Act reporting and what it means in practice: the detection burden for shell companies shifts back to financial institutions, the CDD rule remains in force, and beneficial ownership data belongs in SAR backup documentation to support law enforcement. Sarah Beth shares practical red flags for spotting shell companies, from formation mill documents to companies with no online presence and unexplained revenue. The conversation then turns to the Wise enforcement action and why a clean exam history is the wrong benchmark for a compliance program, including the OCC's pointed finding that leadership lacked financial crime expertise at the board level. They also discuss the Capital One litigation and the safety risks of demands to identify individual investigators, and close on the operational obstacles AML teams face in responding to the executive order on credit risk and illegal immigration, where citizenship indicators are buried across lending and deposit systems that financial crime teams rarely see.

Email: contact@bolog.ioIn this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde speaks with Robert M. Reed, COO of the International Bank of Chicago and founder of Reed Advancements, about the intersection of AI, banking compliance, operational resilience, and trust.Why do compliance programs still fail even as technology improves? Where should banks automate, and where should human judgment remain essential? What makes an AI-driven compliance system truly audit-ready? Robert draws on decades of experience across financial services, crisis response, AML, operations, and regulatory compliance to explain why many compliance failures begin as operational failures, how institutions can use AI without creating new risks, and what leaders should do now to strengthen controls before weaknesses become regulatory or reputational problems.Listeners can also download the companion AI, Compliance & Operational Resilience Worksheet from the episode resources/show notes to assess their own processes, controls, AI readiness, and next steps.

In this episode of This Week in AML, Elliot Berman and John Byrne break down FinCEN's final rule eliminating beneficial ownership reporting requirements for millions of small businesses and discuss what the move means for AML compliance, transparency, and financial crime prevention. The conversation also explores the renewal of FinCEN's Minnesota Geographic Targeting Order and the growing debate over whether the U.S. is experiencing a true fraud crisis, including insights from Jonathan Rusch's recent analysis of federal fraud enforcement efforts. Beyond the U.S., the hosts examine OCC concerns that led to the rejection of a European fintech's national bank charter application, the Luxembourg FIU's new authority to freeze fraud-linked payments, developments surrounding European beneficial ownership registries, Russia's reported sanctions-evasion payment network, and Australia's enforcement action against a major cryptocurrency ATM operator. The episode concludes with a discussion of a new de-risking resource for nonprofits.

A month on from "AML Day", most agencies have ticked the visible boxes: enrolled with AUSTRAC, named a compliance officer, and sent staff through initial training. But ticking those boxes isn't the same as running a program that actually holds up and keeps your business safe. On this REB Business Empowerment Showcase, Liam Garman sits down again with Kaan Yuksel, managing director and founder of Visibl, to explore the gap between compliance on paper and compliance in practice, and how agencies can close it. Yuksel explains what "paper compliance" really looks like in reality: an AML program written once and left on a shelf, staff who've done the bare minimum training, and a compliance officer who hasn't built the habit of actually engaging with their own program. The conversation turns practical, covering how agencies can build compliance into everyday workflows, from sending KYC verification alongside listing agreements, to making AML a standing item in team and business meetings, and why encouraging staff to raise red flags, even ones that turn out to be nothing, matters more than getting it right every time. Garman and Yuksel also revisit the penalties for getting it wrong, from AUSTRAC fines through to the reputational fallout in a trust-based industry, before Yuksel shares his advice for agencies still finding their feet a month into the regime.

This week on This Week in AML, John Byrne and Elliot Berman examine FinCEN's record-setting $125 million enforcement action against UBS, the largest civil money penalty ever imposed against a broker-dealer for Bank Secrecy Act violations. They discuss what made the case significant, the consequences of repeated compliance failures, and the lessons financial institutions should take from the enforcement action. The conversation also covers FinCEN Director Andrea Gacki's departure for Citibank and what the appointment of Acting Director Jenna Casanova could mean for future enforcement priorities. John and Elliot then explore Senator Ron Wyden's report on financial institutions' handling of Jeffrey Epstein-related accounts, including proposed changes to suspicious activity reporting requirements and concerns about SAR confidentiality. They also review Capital One's defense of account closures tied to AML obligations and the broader debate surrounding claims of "debanking." Internationally, the hosts discuss the FCA's planned overhaul of transaction reporting requirements in the UK, ongoing challenges in accessing beneficial ownership registries across the European Union, and Transparency International's push for stronger global anti-corruption measures.

"AML is a board-level topic." – but is this true in practice?Is this more a provocative challenge than a current statement of fact? Under the EU's incoming AMLR, that may be set to change, but are most boards really ready for that?Our host, Marit Rødevand, is joined by Viveka Strangert, Non-Executive Board Member at Alecta, Fidelio Capital, & Ikano Bank and Chair of Loomis Sverige/Loomis Digital Solutions, as well as Olli Kiuru, Partner at Waselius Attorneys, to ask: What does the board need to know about AML?The panel discuss: How AML has traditionally been a board-level blindspot, how upcoming regulation might change that, and what a boardroom conversation about AML should actually look like!Producer: Matthew Dunne-MilesEditor: Dominic DelargyVideo: Loïs DunfordCheck out our new short-film Yes, Chef! here. Subscribe to our newsletter, Fresh Laundry, here.____________________________________The Laundry explores the complex world of financial crime, anti-money laundering (AML), compliance, sanctions, and global financial regulation.Hosted by Marit Rødevand, Fredrik Riiser, and Robin Lycka, each episode features in-depth conversations with leading experts from banking, fintech, regulatory bodies, and investigative journalism — dissecting headline news, unpacking regulatory trends, and examining the real-world consequences of non-compliance.The Laundry is proudly produced by Strise.Get in touch: laundry@strise.ai Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Labour Senator Laura Harmon will today launch a bill aiming to stop student accommodation providers from circumventing rent controls by ensuring all extra fees are included in the rent.For more on this, Anton was joined by Daniel Walsh, President of AMLÉ, the Irish Students Union.

In this episode, Tom Fox welcomes back Matt Ellis of Miller & Chevalier to recap ACI's inaugural two-day Cartel Conference in Washington, DC, highlighting an unusually collaborative, high-energy atmosphere around emerging cartel/TCO/FTO compliance risks in Latin America. They discuss DOJ's Scoular FCPA action as illustrating the long tail of enforcement and a high bar for managing cartel-related and national security risks, while noting the DPA's remedial steps focus more on traditional anti-corruption controls than TCO/FTO-specific guidance. Government participants emphasized a “whole of government” approach, voluntary disclosure, and potential public-private engagement (including embassy attachés and Treasury) in high-risk scenarios. Key themes included narrow duress defenses, complex “imposter” risks, evolving due diligence beyond traditional screening using data/anomaly detection and local intelligence, and the need to integrate compliance across AML, sanctions, security, and supply chain given severe reputational and business consequences of terrorist or cartel support. Key highlights: Conference Vibe and Energy Scoular FCPA Case Takeaways When to Engage Government Duress Defense and Safety Payments Cartel-Focused Due Diligence AML Lessons for Banks Breaking Silos in Compliance Parallels to Early FCPA Era National Security Stakes Resources: ACI National FCPA and Global Anti-Corruption Conference, December 10-11 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Washington, DC Matt Ellis on LinkedIn Tom Fox Instagram Facebook YouTube Twitter LinkedIn To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out my latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on Amazon.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Day in Legal History: The Immigration Act of 1882On August 3, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Immigration Act of 1882, the first comprehensive federal law regulating immigration into the United States. Before this, immigration had largely been left to the individual states; this Act marked the moment the federal government claimed the subject as its own, and it built the first federal machinery for controlling who could enter the country.The Act did two enduring things. First, it imposed a “head tax”—fifty cents on every immigrant arriving by ship—to fund the administration of immigration, and it placed enforcement under the Secretary of the Treasury, creating the country's first federal immigration bureaucracy. Second, and more consequentially for the law that followed, it created categories of people who would be excluded: convicts, the “insane,” and—in language that would echo for the next century and a half—”any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge.” That public-charge concept, born here in 1882, is the same doctrine we discussed just a couple of weeks ago when the current administration revived an expansive version of the public-charge rule.The significance of August 3, 1882 is that it is the taproot of the entire federal immigration system. Coming just months after the Chinese Exclusion Act, it established the foundational premise that the national government decides the terms of admission to the United States, and it introduced the framework—head taxes, excludable categories, federal enforcement—on which everything since has been built. It's worth sitting with the tension in the date: 1882 is also, almost exactly, the moment Emma Lazarus was composing “The New Colossus,” with its welcome to the tired and the poor. The law and the poem were born together, and the distance between them—between the statute's exclusions and the sonnet's embrace—is a distance the country has been arguing about ever since.Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has formally rescinded the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund,” clearing what had been the biggest obstacle to his confirmation. If you were with us last week, this is the resolution of that story. The fund—created by a Justice Department order back in May—would have used taxpayer money to compensate people who claimed to be victims of the prior administration's Justice Department, a group that notably included those convicted in connection with the January 6 Capitol attack. Republican Senator John Cornyn had refused to support Blanche's nomination until the fund was killed, and this week Blanche did exactly that, signing an order declaring the May directive “rescinded” with “no force or effect,” and, as part of the deal, agreeing to limit the related immunity arrangement so it applies only to the IRS and not to other agencies. The significance ties together several threads we've followed all summer. This fund grew out of the same collusive IRS settlement that a federal judge voided as a sham, and it sat at the center of concerns about the Justice Department being used to reward the president's allies. That a senator from the president's own party forced its formal repeal as the price of confirmation is advice-and-consent working as a genuine check—and it means the incoming attorney general takes office having had to publicly dismantle one of the administration's most criticized initiatives before the Senate would trust him with the job.Acting US Attorney General Blanche rescinds ‘anti-weaponization' fund before confirmation vote | ReutersNPR · NBC NewsIn a court filing, Capital One has disclosed for the first time that it closed more than 300 Trump Organization bank accounts back in 2021 after an anti-money-laundering review—the first time a bank has formally tied such concerns to its decision to cut off the president's family business. The context is a lawsuit: the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust and Eric Trump sued Capital One in Florida last year, alleging the bank “debanked” them for political reasons, having notified the Trump Organization of the closures in March 2021, just weeks after January 6. Capital One's filing reframes that story entirely. The bank says its compliance team did precisely what federal regulators expect—flagging accounts that raised anti-money-laundering red flags and acting on them. Here's the legal machinery underneath. Under the Bank Secrecy Act and related anti-money-laundering rules, banks are legally obligated to monitor their customers, file suspicious-activity reports, and, when warranted, close accounts; failing to do so can expose a bank to serious regulatory penalties. Importantly, Capital One did not accuse the Trump Organization of actual money laundering—flagging a risk and proving a crime are very different things. The significance is that this is a clean collision between two hot legal debates: the “debanking” complaint that financial institutions are dropping customers for political or ideological reasons, and the reality that banks operate under mandatory AML obligations that require them to shed risky accounts. A court will now have to decide which of those framings fits what Capital One actually did.Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money-laundering review | ReutersCNBC · NPRTom Goldstein, the prominent Supreme Court advocate and SCOTUSblog founder we've been following, has launched his appeal—asking the Fourth Circuit to overturn his twelve convictions for tax and mortgage fraud and to undo his six-year prison sentence. Recall the case: a jury found that Goldstein concealed millions from a secret high-stakes poker life, diverted his law firm's fees to cover gambling debts, and lied to mortgage lenders; he was sentenced to 72 months and ordered to pay more than $3 million in restitution. The appeal is a reminder that even a resource-intensive, headline conviction gets a second look, and Goldstein is raising some genuinely lawyerly arguments. The most interesting is venue—the constitutional requirement that a defendant be tried in the right place. His team argues that while prosecutors proved he filled out loan applications in Maryland, they never proved from where he actually transmitted the documents, leaning on a recent Fourth Circuit decision that took venue seriously. He's also challenging the admission of statements he made in media interviews and the wording of the jury instructions. Commentators describe his path as daunting, and it is—appellate courts rarely overturn convictions, and factual findings get real deference. But the significance is that these are exactly the kinds of technical, procedural issues on which serious appeals are built. Goldstein spent his career winning cases at the top of the appellate system; now he's testing whether that same system will scrutinize the government's work in convicting him.US Supreme Court lawyer Tom Goldstein appeals tax conviction | ReutersLaw360 · Bloomberg LawAnd finally, the Justice Department has moved to drop its criminal case against David Hearn, the former Olympic canoeist charged with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool—and the reason is striking. We covered Hearn's not-guilty plea back in July, when his lawyers called the prosecution an abuse of power built on a “concocted narrative.” It turns out that characterization may have been closer to the truth than the charge. In a 20-page filing, prosecutors acknowledged that evidence received after Hearn was indicted shows the damage to the pool “was the result of flawed installation by the contractor,” compounded by “the rush to complete the project” before the America 250 celebrations around July 4. In other words: not vandalism—shoddy construction. The U.S. Attorney's office said it only learned of the flawed-installation evidence after a grand jury had already indicted him. The significance goes right to prosecutorial power and its risks. A 67-year-old man was detained for hours and charged with a felony over damage that, by the government's own admission, he didn't cause. The case collapsing is the system correcting itself—but only after Hearn spent weeks as a felony defendant. It's a real-world illustration of a point we keep returning to: the decision to charge is one of the most consequential and least reviewable powers in the legal system, and when it's exercised on a flawed factual premise, the damage to the person charged is done long before the dismissal.US Justice Department drops case against former US Olympian over Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool | ReutersPBS NewsHour · CNN This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to the Daily Compliance News. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider four stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest for the compliance professional. Top stories include: Is AI scheming against us, or is SkyNet now self-aware? (NYT) New ESPN 30 for 30 pod reviews the corruption case of Ohtani's translator. (ESPN) Ex-Peru President released from prison. (BBC) CapOne fired the Trump Organization for AML deficiencies. (Reuters) To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom's latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on Amazon.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Eric Winer, Dr. Amer Zeidan and Dr. Zeidan's patient Tom Mix discuss the latest treatments and outcomes with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) Visit: https://medicine.yale.edu/cancer/ Email: canceranswers@yale.edu Call 203-785-4095

In this episode of This Week in AML, John Byrne and Elliot Berman unpack several significant developments across the AML, sanctions, fraud, and compliance landscape. They begin with the U.S. Senate's overwhelming bipartisan vote to advance new Russia and Iran sanctions legislation, then turn to FinCEN Director Andrea Gacki's recent congressional testimony, including her emphasis on fraud prevention, BSA modernization, SAR guidance, and the industry's ongoing uncertainty about AML priorities and effectiveness standards. The conversation also explores Transparency International's 2025 achievements in advancing anti-corruption reforms worldwide and raises important questions about whether corruption will remain a formal U.S. AML priority. John and Elliot review FinCEN's new alert on financial student aid fraud, discuss the continued role of shell companies in fraud schemes, and examine a House Financial Services Committee report on scams and fraud. Additional topics include Treasury's review of the SDN List, the growing industry around sanctions delisting petitions, the closure of crypto exchange BitMEX despite presidential pardons for its founders, the OCC's denial of Wise US's national trust charter application due to AML compliance concerns, and new reporting linking crypto-to-cash storefronts to money laundering activity.

Brazil's regulated betting market has exploded—but can that momentum continue?In this episode of the Safe Bet Show, Martin Lycka is joined by Rafael Marchetti Marcondes, Chief Legal Officer at Pitaco, to discuss one of the biggest regulated gambling markets in the world.Rafael explains why Brazil's upcoming elections could reshape the industry's future, how operators are responding to increasing political scrutiny, and why he still believes the market will continue to grow despite growing regulatory pressure.The conversation also includes an exclusive update on Pitaco's rebrand and its merger with Mexican operator Draftea, creating a business operating across both Brazil and Mexico.In this episode:✅ Pitaco's rebrand and expansion with Draftea✅ Why Brazil's elections matter for betting operators✅ The biggest regulatory challenges facing the industry✅ Advertising restrictions and political pressure✅ AML and financial crime concerns✅ Why regulation is essential for long-term sustainability✅ How Pitaco evolved from Daily Fantasy Sports to sports betting✅ The future of DFS in Brazil✅ Rafael's journey from tax lawyer to Chief Legal Officer✅ Why Brazil remains one of the world's biggest betting opportunitiesRafael also shares why, despite the challenges ahead, Brazil's regulated market has already become too significant for governments to ignore.#SafeBetShow #Brazil #SportsBetting #Gambling #iGaming #Regulation #ResponsibleGambling #Pitaco #Draftea #BrazilBetting

MLROs are vital to financial services - a crucial link between companies, the risks they face, and the authorities.The UK's Financial Conduct Authority have previously sent a warning to hundreds of companies who had burned through three or more MLROs in just three years. So, what does this tell us about the pressures of this role?In this episode – originally published in 2024 – Marit Rødevand is joined by Adam Vilaça to discuss: "How do we stop MLRO burnout?" They discuss: the problems with the MLRO role today, how to stop the ‘revolving door' situation, and comments from The Laundry community.Producer: Matthew Dunne-MilesEditor: Dominic DelargyCheck out our new short-film Yes, Chef! here. Subscribe to our newsletter, Fresh Laundry, here.____________________________________The Laundry explores the complex world of financial crime, anti-money laundering (AML), compliance, sanctions, and global financial regulation.Hosted by Marit Rødevand, Fredrik Riiser, and Robin Lycka, each episode features in-depth conversations with leading experts from banking, fintech, regulatory bodies, and investigative journalism — dissecting headline news, unpacking regulatory trends, and examining the real-world consequences of non-compliance.The Laundry is proudly produced by Strise.Get in touch: laundry@strise.ai Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of AML Conversations, host John Byrne welcomes Tess Davis, Executive Director of the Antiquities Coalition, for a timely discussion on the intersection of cultural heritage crime and financial crime. From the looting of museums and archaeological sites in conflict zones such as Ukraine and Sudan to the exploitation of the global art market for money laundering and sanctions evasion, Tess explains why antiquities trafficking is far more than a cultural issue—it is a financial crime issue. The conversation explores the Rome Statement on Art Market Integrity, the growing role of law enforcement agencies like the Manhattan District Attorney's Antiquities Trafficking Unit, and bipartisan efforts in the United States to bring the art market under the AML regulatory framework. Tess also shares real-world examples of how stolen artifacts are laundered into legitimate collections and outlines key red flags financial institutions should understand when assessing risks tied to art and antiquities transactions. This episode offers valuable insights into a rapidly evolving threat landscape and the collaborative efforts underway to combat it.

For a long time, financial crime prevention has been a massive issue for banks. This is because of several often complex navigation around rules and regulations, such as AML, KYC, CTF, and SAR. However, a bigger issue has emerged. As more and more transactions happen and financial crime networks get smarter, the bigger problem is the way banks handle data.In the recent conversation on the Don't Panic It's Just Data podcast, host Herb Blecher, Research Director, Data and Analytics, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), sat down with guest Manish Andhy, Financial Services AI & Industry Executive at Teradata.They talked about how criminal enterprises are changing fast, like the internet, while compliance systems are still using old methods. Andhy tells Blecher, "The difference between how fast criminals can change and how slow compliance systems are is a big weakness."More than $3 trillion in money moves through the global financial system every year, but only a small part of it is caught. Banks have spent a lot of time and money building systems to stop money laundering. Many of them still have separate systems for onboarding, transaction monitoring, investigations and risk management.The strange thing is that big financial institutions have already spent a lot of money to solve this problem. They built data warehouses to get rid of systems and data lakes to put all the information in one place. In fact, they often created the same separate systems they were trying to get rid of.Also Watch: What is AI Hyper-Personalisation in CX and Why Does it Matter?TakeawaysOver $3 trillion of illicit funds moves through the global financial system annually.Only about 1% of illicit funds are detected or intercepted.AML programs have grown in a fragmented, siloed way across enterprises.The pace of change in compliance has historically been slow.Traditional rule-based systems generate enormous amounts of false positive alerts.Data silos persist due to organizational and technology issues.Data products allow for a unified view of data without creating new silos.Generative AI can automate parts of the compliance process.Financial institutions must treat data as a strategic asset.Compliance can inform broader business decisions beyond regulatory obligations.Chapters00:00 Introduction to Financial Crime and Data Analytics05:06 Challenges in Financial Crime Compliance10:05 Data Silos and Their Impact15:12 The Concept of Data Products19:57 Modernizing Financial Crime Strategies24:59 Conclusion and Key TakeawaysFor more information on financial crime and how financial institutions should manage their data securely and compliantly, follow Terada across its official channels:Website: Teradata YouTube: @TeradataLinkedIn: @TeradataX: @TeradataFor more information on enterprise tech analyst-led insights, please visit em360tech.com EM360Tech YouTube: @enterprisemanagement360EM360Tech LinkedIn: @EM360TechEM360Tech X: @EM360Tech#Teradata #FinancialCrime #AML #Compliance #DataStrategy #AIinBanking #FinTech #DataSilos #DataManagement #DonTPanicItsJustData #EM360Tech #B2BMarketing #B2BPodcasts

Financial institutions are pushing agentic AI past pilot mode and into document-heavy, regulated workflows like AML alerts and account closures, but many leaders still lack a clear model for where automation should run freely and where human judgment has to stay in the loop. In this episode, Yoav Naveh, Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Reindeer AI, examines how banks are structuring agent oversight so automation earns trust incrementally instead of replacing compliance teams outright. The conversation covers how to identify workflows ready for agentic AI, what signals show an agent is learning rather than failing, and how public and historical data can strengthen both compliance decisions and customer retention.   This episode is sponsored by Reindeer AI.   Learn how financial institutions are digitizing paper-based records to unlock usable data for AI, and using alternative data to enhance risk assessment, download our free PDF report, "AI in Financial Services Executive Cheat Sheet" at emerj.com/fcs1

This week on This Week in AML, Elliot Berman and Joe McNamara examine a series of reports and regulatory updates highlighting the growing sophistication of global financial crime. The discussion begins with a new United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) threat assessment that details how Southeast Asia has become a hub for interconnected criminal ecosystems, with organized crime groups increasingly offering “fraud as a service” at enterprise scale. Elliot and Joe explore how criminal organizations are evolving from trafficking goods to operating highly sophisticated criminal services businesses. They also discuss FATF's latest targeted update on virtual assets and VASPs, including concerns about stablecoins, regulatory gaps, and ongoing challenges in implementing the Travel Rule across jurisdictions. The conversation highlights how organized crime networks are leveraging crypto assets to move illicit funds globally. The episode then turns to new guidance from the Wolfsberg Group on managing risks associated with non-bank payment service providers, AMLA's growing focus on vulnerabilities in the non-financial sector, and ongoing concerns about real estate as a money-laundering vehicle.

AI is racing into payments, but the uncomfortable truth is that speed without trust turns into risk fast. We sit down with Garima Chaudhary, VP of Financial Crime and Compliance AI at ThetaRay, to unpack what it really takes to modernize AML and sanctions compliance while keeping humans accountable for outcomes.Garima shares her career journey from engineering and operational risk into the high-stakes world of financial crime, where “follow the money” reveals both how economies grow and how criminal networks adapt. We get specific about why legacy rules-based transaction monitoring creates overwhelming false positives, and how behavioral AI can spot anomalies across customer segments and peer groups, improving detection without punishing legitimate people and small businesses with blunt, one-size-fits-all rules. Along the way, we talk about the human cost of financial crime and why compliance decisions can either protect vulnerable communities or unintentionally lock them out of the financial system.The theme “the future is human” shows up everywhere: explainable AI, human-in-the-loop review, and the governance and documentation needed to defend decisions to auditors and regulators. Garima also looks ahead to agentic payments, where AI agents buy and move money on our behalf, forcing a rethink of identity, delegated authority, and what “normal behavior” even means in fraud and AML models.If you care about fintech, payments innovation, and building compliant products that scale, this conversation will sharpen your thinking. 

We had the chance to sit down with the owner of Cup and Cone in White Bear Lake, Rick Johnson and he shared his story of Cup and Cone, the business and family aspect of it and the NMDP connection to why he is so connected with the cause! We then meet Jerry, a friend of Rick's who was saved in help from a donor while battling AML and we hear his inspiring story!

The Wirecard scandal has become the stuff of legend.A German payments company, worth tens of billions of euros, collapsed following the exposure of massive accounting fraud and financial misconduct. It sent shockwaves across the financial industry and to the very top of the German government.But none of it would have been possible without the actions of a whistleblower.In this episode – originally published in 2024 – Marit Rødevand is joined by Pav Gill, Founder & CEO of Confide, to ask: Did Wirecard's collapse shape the future of whistleblowing?The pair discuss: Pav's journey from whistleblower to founder, the hidden impact of calling out wrongdoing, and how whistleblowing will look going forward.Producer: Matthew Dunne-MilesEditor: Dominic DelargyCheck out our new short-film Yes, Chef! here. Subscribe to our newsletter, Fresh Laundry, here.____________________________________The Laundry explores the complex world of financial crime, anti-money laundering (AML), compliance, sanctions, and global financial regulation.Hosted by Marit Rødevand, Fredrik Riiser, and Robin Lycka, each episode features in-depth conversations with leading experts from banking, fintech, regulatory bodies, and investigative journalism — dissecting headline news, unpacking regulatory trends, and examining the real-world consequences of non-compliance.The Laundry is proudly produced by Strise.Get in touch: laundry@strise.ai Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For years, the banking industry focused on one goal: reduce friction. Every extra interaction with a customer was viewed as something to avoid.But scams have changed the rules.When criminals manipulate customers into authorizing payments themselves, transaction monitoring alone can't tell the whole story. The missing piece is context—and the only person who has it is the customer.In this episode, Ayelet sits down with Kate Pundik, Fraud Risk Management Program Manager at Valley Bank, and Juliana Bogotinoska, FVP and BSA Officer at Bankwell, to discuss why proactive customer engagement is becoming one of the most powerful tools in modern fraud prevention.Together, they explore how banks are rethinking trust, why customer outreach is no longer viewed as unnecessary friction, and how partnering with customers can improve fraud detection, strengthen relationships, and prevent losses before money moves.In this episode, you'll learn: Why scams require a completely different fraud prevention strategy than traditional account takeover. Why the customer often has the one piece of information banks cannot see: intent. How customer outreach helps prevent account takeover, check fraud, scams, and money mule activity. Why reaching out to customers is becoming a better customer service experience—not simply another security control. How financial institutions are building trusted communication channels with customers. Why fraud, AML, risk, technology, marketing, and customer-facing teams must work together to protect customers. How AI is changing both scam tactics and the way banks must respond. Why the future of fraud prevention is built on partnership, trust, and communication.Key takeawayThe future of fraud prevention isn't simply about detecting suspicious transactions. It's about building trusted relationships with customers, giving them the confidence to make safer decisions, and creating a partnership where banks and customers work together to stop fraud before money moves.About the HostAyelet Biger-Levin is the Founder and CEO of RangersAI and the host of Scam Rangers, a podcast exploring the human side of scams and the people working to protect consumers from financial and emotional harm.Through her work at RangersAI and her leadership within the Global Anti-Scam Alliance and the Stop Scams Alliance, Ayelet partners with financial institutions, policymakers, and industry leaders to advance a more human-centered approach to scam prevention.Follow Ayelet on LinkedIn to continue the conversation and learn more about the work being done to build scam resilience.https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayelet-biger-levin/

DRWarner Bros.' Zaslav Offers $68 Million to Buy Summer Campnew January 2026 employment agreement$96M: Make-Whole RSU award to CEO Daivd Zaslav of 1,963,465 shares; after January 2 Follow-On Option award of 3,052,734 options because share price is downUnder a new employment agreement executed on June 12, 2025, Zaslav received a special award of 20,898,776 stock options with an exercise price of $10.16 (~$400M). Additionally, on January 2, 2026, he was granted 3,052,734 follow-on stock options with an exercise price of $28.51 (~$40M). To address the higher exercise price of these options compared to the initial grant, Zaslav received 1,963,465 restricted stock units on January 5, 2026 (~$56M).The Compensation Committee: 23 meetings in 2025*Paul A. Gould, 80, 18 years tenureGould and Zaslav worked closely together at Discovery, Inc. for nearly 15 years.David Zaslav took the helm as President and CEO of Discovery, Inc. in January 2007.Paul Gould joined the Discovery, Inc. Board of Directors shortly after, serving as an independent director from 2007 until the company merged with WarnerMedia.Both men belong to the tight-knit professional circle surrounding cable pioneer and billionaire John Malone.Paul Gould has a long history as a trusted director across Malone's web of companies, serving for years on the boards of Liberty Global and Liberty Latin America.David Zaslav has publicly and frequently cited John Malone as his primary professional mentor.Their shared ties to Malone are so closely linked that in 2012, Zaslav partnered with other high-level executives to donate $1 million to the Cable Center specifically to build and name the John Malone Theater.Paul Gould has served as a Managing Director and Executive Vice President at Allen & Company, a premium boutique investment bank deeply embedded in the media and entertainment ecosystem. Through this avenue, Gould and Zaslav connect in two ways:Financial Advisory: Allen & Company has a long history of providing valuation opinions, advisory services, and market analysis for major transactions initiated by Zaslav during his career.The Sun Valley Conference: Allen & Company famously hosts the annual "Summer Camp for Billionaires" in Sun Valley, Idaho. As a prominent media mogul, Zaslav is a regular, high-profile attendee at this event, which is organized by Gould's firm.Kenneth W. LoweKen Lowe is the former Chair/CEO of Scripps Networks Interactive (the former parent company of massive lifestyle brands like HGTV, Food Network, and ID).The Link: In 2018—four years before the Warner Bros. deal even closed—Zaslav orchestrated Discovery's $14.6 billion acquisition of Scripps Networks. As a direct result of that blockbuster cable industry consolidation, Lowe joined Discovery Inc.'s board of directors. He and Zaslav had already been working together closely at the board level for years before the legacy company expanded into WBD.The board of AT&TRichard W. FisherOutside of WBD, Zaslav's connection to Fisher is rooted in Fisher's previous role as a member of the Board of Directors for AT&T. When Zaslav was hammering out the complex transaction to spin WarnerMedia away from AT&T, Fisher was one of the crucial board leaders on the other side of the table who evaluated and signed off on the deal. As part of the closing agreement, Fisher was designated by AT&T to transition directly over to the new WBD board.Debra L. LeeDebra Lee was the longtime Chair/CEO of BET Networks (Black Entertainment Television) from 2006 to 2018.Zaslav and Lee have long-standing commitments to The Paley Center for Media, sharing space as members of its highly prestigious Board of Trustees. Additionally, Lee served on the board of AT&T, meaning she was part of the corporate governance team that initially approved Zaslav's pitch to merge Discovery with WarnerMedia.Geoffrey Y. YangJust like Richard Fisher and Debra Lee, Yang's primary pre-WBD connection to Zaslav comes down to AT&T. Yang sat on AT&T's board during the high-stakes dealmaking window. Because of his background in digital media and venture capital, he was designated by AT&T leadership to transition to the WBD board to help Zaslav steer the newly formed company's streaming and direct-to-consumer technology strategies.The board that ignores Say on Pay votesAt our 2025 Annual Meeting held on June 2, 2025, we held an advisory vote on executive compensation, or "Say on Pay" vote, and a majority of the votes cast by stockholders were cast against our executive compensation program.Our executive compensation program is designed to pay for performance and effectively balance executive and stockholder interests. The Committee considered the outcome of the "Say on Pay" vote from the 2025 Annual Meeting, and while it continues to believe that our executive compensation structure, which includes long-term agreements with each of our NEOs and delivers a significant majority of NEO compensation in performance-based vehicles, is effective in meeting our compensation objectives, it took note of the negative 2025 "Say on Pay" vote when making compensation decisions after the 2025 Annual Meeting.The Dodd-Frank Act: "The shareholder vote … shall not be binding on the issuer or the board of directors of an issuer, and may not be construed as overruling a decision by such issuer or board of directors”Special meeting vote 4/23/26: Say on Pay 83% no6/9 AGM: ShareholdersPaul A. Gould 52% noRichard W. Fisher 31% noDebra L. Lee 32% noKenneth W. Lowe 31% noGeoffrey Y. Yang 31% noZaslav 3% noSay on Pay 84% noStill on boardPaul A. GouldRichard W. FisherDebra L. LeeKenneth W. LoweGeoffrey Y. YangZaslavThe SEC: "The Say-on-Pay … votes are advisory rather than binding ... Unlike a binding vote, advisory votes do not require the company or its board of directors to take a specific action. The company's board of directors may consider advisory votes and may follow up with other communications or dialogue with shareholders as part of its deliberative process in making policy decisions."The workers for being poor1,378 to 1 CEO pay ratio.Andrew M. Cuomo Joins the OKX Board of DirectorsThe worldMen GreedThe U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) In February 2025, OKX pled guilty in a U.S. federal court to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and violating anti-money laundering (AML) laws.The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed that despite OKX having an "official policy" banning U.S. users, the exchange actively pursued U.S. customers and generated hundreds of millions in fees from them.Internal logs showed OKX employees explicitly telling U.S. clients how to bypass the exchange's own blocks—even telling a customer to "just put a random country" during identity verification.The exchange was used to facilitate over $5 billion in suspicious transactions and criminal proceeds, resulting in a staggering $504 million penalty.TrumpTrump has normalized crypto. Is it the path to the next financial collapse?Jon Ossoff Rips RFK Jr.'s ‘Foolish' Cutback To Cyclosporiasis Monitoring: Sen. Jon Ossoff says a cyclosporiasis outbreak spreading nationwide could be harder to track because the Trump administration changed CDC surveillance last year. In a letter to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ossoff argues that the CDC's FoodNet program (a public health network that monitors infections from multiple pathogens across CDC, USDA, FDA, and 10 states) stopped requiring monitoring cyclospora, and that the administration later made data collection optional at FoodNet sites for most pathogens (except Salmonella and E. coli).Elon Musk"ESG is the devil"A "scam" weaponized by "phony social justice warriors"Vivek RamaswamyThe author of Woke, Inc.founded an entire asset management firm (Strive) designed explicitly to offer "anti-woke" investment options that ignore ESG metrics in favor of pure profit.Ron DeSantisSpearheaded a massive legislative pushback against ESG in Florida, signing bills that banned state and local governments from using ESG factors when investing public funds or issuing bondsArgues ESG is a way to bypass voters and enforce a political agenda through corporate power.Peter ThielCalled ESG a "hate factory" used to control capital and punish companies that don't fall in line with mainstream corporate ideologyTariq Fancy (Former Head of Sustainable Investing at BlackRock)“Whistleblower”Called ESG a "dangerous placebo" that does nothing to actually fix the planet but allows Wall Street to charge higher fees while greenwashing their portfoliosMike PenceArgues that major Wall Street firms use ESG to enforce a radical left-wing agenda on everyday Americans, forcing companies to adopt policies that hurt the domestic energy sector.Glenn Hegar (Texas Comptroller)Created a blacklist of financial companies (including BlackRock) banned from doing business with the state of TexasCalled ESG an "opaque and perverse system" that violates fiduciary dutyAndy Puzder (Former CEO of CKE Restaurants/Hardee's and Carl's Jr.)Argued that forcing companies to focus on social goals instead of profits violates shareholder capitalism and ultimately hurts the economySenator Tom CottonAttacked ESG from a legal and regulatory standpoint. He led a group of Republican senators in warning top U.S. law firms that advising companies to cooperate on ESG goals could open them up to massive federal antitrust violationsSanjai Bhagat (Finance Professor, University of Colorado)Argues that ESG funds don't actually deliver higher returns and that companies in ESG portfolios often have worse compliance records for labor and environmental rules than standard companiesMenI pay my employees $1,000 a month per child for day care. It's one of my ice cream company's best investments.A womanAll womenDEIMolly Moon Neitzelfounder and CEO of Molly Moon's Homemade Ice CreamHer business planwhich included living wages and free health insurance for everyone who worked at least 18 hours a weekMMC-suite promotions now come with three or more jobs - from the article: “When Target named Michael Fiddelke CEO in February 2026, the leadership changes he announced went beyond a standard promotion. Target eliminated its chief commercial officer role and consolidated merchandising authority into a single position, naming Cara Sylvester, previously chief guest experience officer, as the sole chief merchandising officer overseeing product development, assortment design, and partner collaborations.” - WHO DO YOU BLAME??AIIsn't “taking more jobs on” what the promise of AI has been? The article claims “Executives who excel in a specific function are increasingly entrusted with broader operating mandates spanning commercial, technology, operations, finance, or customer strategy” - but really, aren't we just admitting that marketing and sales can be done by a dopey robot?Executive ChairsAs the TOP boys realize they can offload their work by becoming Executive Chair (same salary, fewer hours, no responsibilities!), maybe the CEO class is realizing THEY can stop doing as much if they just give more jobs to underlings? It seems telling the prime example in the article is Target where Brian Cornell still lingers on the board like a boilPay committeesPay committees are handing out massive golden hellos, particularly to CFOs but all c-suite, and they can justify them by “rolling” pointless jobs into a single person, right? BoardsBoards aren't actually paying attention to executives anyway - the data suggests by and large boards in the US are either deferential to the executives (do whatever you want!) or entirely self dealing (highly connected horse trading jobs on other boards!). The result is an indifferent board to actual executive shakeups either way - and CEOs are using indifference to shake up the c-suitesGeneral Mills is recalling nearly 736,000 Pillsbury bread rolls over possible glass - WHO DO YOU BLAME??Public Responsibility Chair Jorge UribeEx “productivity” officer at P&G until he retired in 2015. MBA and bachelor's in “management engineering”, which confused our knowledge typing which pinged off “engineering” to give him Public Safety knowledge, but there's no ACTUAL EVIDENCE he did anything but sales/marketing10 year tenure - longer than the CEO, but not as long as…Longest tenured director and man on Public Responsibility committee Steve OdlandOdland is the CEO of the Conference Board, who does public policy and governance stuff - he was CEO of Office Depot and AutoZone, and came from food (Quaker Oats, Sara Lee)Been on the board 22 years!! Solid job if you can get itBut both Steve and Jorge are tagged as “deferential” in the data (this is an important gig for them), so maybe…CEO Jeff HarmeningWith General Mills since 1994, came from marketing, but was COO - maybe Jeff's job as a director at Toro Company made him too busy to notice the glass? Or, maybe it wasn't their fault at all…RFK Jr: It's not just Taco Bell lettuce and possible glass in Pillsbury rolls: Food and drink recall events reached a 6-year year-over-year high

In this week's episode of This Week in AML, John Byrne and Elliot Berman discuss the renewed push for a bipartisan U.S. sanctions bill targeting Russia and compare its approach to the European Union's existing sanctions framework. They also examine new guidance from federal banking agencies on lending to non-work authorized. The conversation explores a notable difference in the Federal Reserve's proposed AML program rule, highlights key findings from Europol's latest EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report, and reviews a Transparency International report examining the illicit finance risks associated with cryptocurrency and stablecoins. John and Elliot also discuss developments involving a high-profile IRS lawsuit and Florida's proposed designation of certain organizations as terrorist entities.

The AI Recruiting Summit 2026 is happening now through July 20th, and registration is free for every live session. Recruiting engineers, operators, and recruiters actually running AI on their desks are showing what is working behind the scenes. Do not miss it. Register here: https://ai-recruiting-summit-2026.heysummit.com/ This episode is brought to you by Atlas. The resume never tells the full story, and most of what candidates share ends up buried in notes and forgotten. Atlas is the AI first recruitment platform built to eliminate admin. It captures every conversation automatically, and with MagicSearch you can ask things like who mentioned they are open to relocating and pull the answer from your entire database instantly. Atlas customers have reported over 40% EBITDA growth and over 80% increase in monthly billings after adopting the platform. Unlock your exclusive listener offer here: https://recruitwithatlas.com/ Holly Dary spent nearly 20 years becoming everything she set out to be at a large global staffing firm. She oversaw eight markets, built teams that produced, and made very good money. Then she hit her 20 year mark and a question she could not shake. Keep doing the same thing on repeat until retirement, or bet on herself and build something of her own. She chose the second act. At the end of 2019 she launched Tarbos Talent in Austin, put all of her chips in the middle of the table as the sole provider for her family, and started making placements right away. Then, three months in, COVID shut everything down. Every job order died. Offers were rescinded. For a brand new firm with a database built from nothing, it should have been the end. Instead she doubled down. While competitors furloughed and let go of long time producers, Holly hired the best of them. She built her tech stack and her database through the quiet months, got her team back in the office the moment Texas allowed it, and came out of the shutdown twice as strong. From zero she has built a team of 26 across two offices in Austin and Houston, in a business where most firms take 12 to 18 months just to turn a profit. Tarbos was profitable inside of two. None of that is the most remarkable thing she has survived. Fifteen years ago, when her daughter had just turned one, Holly was diagnosed with AML leukemia and told to get to the hospital within 30 minutes. She was not scared. She was furious that anything might take her from her kids, and she carried the same positive mindset that runs her business straight through treatment. Her oncologist later told her that her attitude was half the reason she made it. In this conversation Holly breaks down how she builds firms that win. Why the human touch is what separates an elite recruiter from a replaceable one. Why she recruits like a sniper instead of blasting 500 people at once. Why speed and sitting shoulder to shoulder with her team is a real advantage in a remote world. And why, after 26 years, doing the reps is still the whole game. If there is a quiet voice in the back of your head telling you it is time for your own second act, this is the episode. Connect with Holly Dary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holly-dary-aba2952/ Listen to the full episode:

What's up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!Over the last few months, I've had more conversations about agentic payments than just about any other topic. At conferences, on webinars, and in discussions with some of the smartest people in payments, compliance, and fraud, one thing has become clear to me: I think we're asking the wrong question.Most people want to know whether AI will start moving money.The question I keep coming back to is this: How do fraud teams investigate transactions when software starts making decisions?In this solo episode, I pull together insights from recent conversations with Matt Vega, Mary Ann Miller, and Matt Janiga to explore what agentic commerce really means for fraud investigations, SAR reporting, and the future of financial crime investigations. We talk about why traditional fraud models have always assumed a human initiated the payment, why that assumption no longer holds, and what investigators will need to understand when AI agents begin making decisions on behalf of customers.The technology may be changing, but the principles of good fraud prevention are not. Documentation, audit trails, authority management, explainability, and strong transaction monitoring will become even more important as agentic payments move from theory to reality.What you'll hear in this episode:Why agentic payments are fundamentally different from traditional payment automation.How agentic commerce changes the way fraud teams investigate payment fraud.Why audit trails, attribution, and explainability will become essential during fraud investigations.How SAR reporting and AML investigations may evolve as AI becomes part of the payment decision process.Why regulators are focused on enabling innovation safely instead of slowing it down.The three questions every fraud investigator should begin asking today to prepare for the future.You should listen to this episode if you:Work in fraud prevention, AML compliance, investigations, or financial crime.File suspicious activity reports or conduct SAR reporting.Lead fraud operations, transaction monitoring, or payment investigations.Are evaluating how AI and agentic commerce will affect your institution.Want practical steps your team can begin implementing today instead of waiting for the rulebook to catch up.

Welcome back to the Fintech Takes podcast. I'm your host, Alex Johnson, and today one of our favorite guests is back: Frank Rotman, founding partner of 37Maru and co-founder and partner emeritus at QED Investors. First, we chat about what happens to an entire industry once its customers have concluded the game is rigged, which is why financial nihilism now shows up everywhere from ETFs built on sports bets to DeFi products costumed as savings accounts. Frank has a theory he calls p(win)=0; once someone concludes their probability of winning is zero, walking away from the game is rational.  From there, we separate the AI use cases ready for prime time from the ones that aren't. Back office work like AML documentation and exception processing is ripe for automation. A bank chatbot delivering flawless, compliant financial advice is a different proposition. In financial services, 98% accuracy can still equal zero. Finally, we close on student lending, an area where Frank has firsthand experience (having built a student lending company before QED), and firsthand ideas (having spent the better part of a year making the case for reform to the Department of Education and the IRS). His proposal for how the government could build a “truth file" on which degrees pay off is one of the more concrete policy ideas we discuss. Expect a wide-ranging conversation. Frank has a gift for making financial nihilism, AI, and student loan policy sound like one continuous argument, and by the end, I'm convinced that it is. --- This episode is brought to you by Ocrolus.  Every small business is different — but most lenders only see a snapshot. Ocrolus gives SMB lenders the cash flow analytics, borrower behavior and peer context to fund more, faster, with confidence. Visit ⁠https://www.ocrolus.com/⁠ for more.  --- Sign up for Alex's Fintech Takes newsletter for the latest insightful analysis on fintech trends, along with a heaping pile of pop culture references and copious footnotes. Every Monday and Thursday:⁠ https://workweek.com/brand/fintech-takes/⁠ And for more exclusive insider content, don't forget to check out my⁠ YouTube page⁠. --- Follow Frank: LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-rotman/⁠ X: ⁠https://x.com/fintechjunkie⁠   Follow Alex:  YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@FintechTakes⁠ LinkedIn:⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexhjohnson⁠ X:⁠ https://www.twitter.com/AlexH_Johnson⁠

At just 16 years old, Hayden Laufgraven heard the words no teenager expects:"You have leukemia."What followed was hospitalisation, chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant, remission, relapse, another transplant, months of isolation, and learning how to never give up. In this deeply moving episode of Talking Smack 415, Jamie the Great and I sit down with Hayden to talk about what it's really like to be diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) as a teenager, the emotional toll of the diagnosis and surviving cancer, and the often-overlooked reality of PTSD after cancer treatment.Hayden shares his remarkable perspective on resilience, friendship, identity, and why surviving cancer doesn't mean the journey is over.Whether you've experienced cancer yourself, love someone who has, or simply need a reminder of the strength of the human spirit, this conversation will stay with you long after it ends. Hayden is wise beyond his years. In this episode we discuss:What it's like being diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) at age 16The signs and symptoms that led to his leukemia diagnosisChemotherapy, remission, relapse, and undergoing two bone marrow transplantsHow donor registries and bone marrow matching workThe physical and emotional impact of cancer treatmentPTSD and trauma after surviving cancerRebuilding strength after months of chemotherapy and isolationThe importance of friendship, family, and community during illnessMental resilience and finding hope through uncertaintyLife after cancer and returning to college, sports, and everyday lifeHayden's honesty, maturity, and optimism offer an extraordinary reminder that resilience isn't about pretending you're fearless—it's about continuing to move forward anyway.Follow Hayden on TikTok: @haydenlaufIf this episode resonates with you...Please subscribe, rate, and review Talking Smack 415. Sharing this episode may help someone navigating cancer, supporting a loved one through treatment, or healing from the invisible emotional scars that often remain after remission.Cancer changes lives—but so does hope.Share this episode with your friends and family who love to laugh.  Subscribe to Talking Smack 415 and leave us a rating and review so more peeps can find us for laughter and friendship to feed your soul!  

Welcome back to the Oncology Brothers podcast! In this episode, we dived into the latest highlights from the EHA 2026 conference, focusing on groundbreaking studies in the leukemia space. Join us as we welcome Dr. Eunice Wang from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center to discuss three pivotal studies: OPTI-AML: explored the findings on the use of venetoclax in combination with azacitidine for newly diagnosed AML patients, comparing 14-day versus 28-day treatment regimens and their impact on cytopenias and overall outcomes. KOMET-007: promising early data on menin inhibitors, specifically Ziftomenib, in frontline settings for patients with NPM1 and KMT2A rearrangements, and how it may change the landscape of AML treatment. SENTRY: analyzed the combination of ruxolitinib and selinexor for myelofibrosis, discussing its effects on spleen volume reduction and overall survival, as well as the implications of side effects. Listen us on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/31BXhY9FM4gPWG10WgE11o  Follow us on social media: •⁠  ⁠X/Twitter: https://x.com/oncbrothers  •⁠  ⁠Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oncbrothers  •⁠  Website: https://oncbrothers.com/  Tune in for an insightful discussion on the future of leukemia treatment and the importance of genetic markers in therapy decisions. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and check out our other conference highlights from ASCO and EHA! #EHA2026, #Leukemia, #AML, #Myelofibrosis, #OncologyBrothers  

Rick sits down with Erai Beckmann to talk about the part of blockchain most people either hype up or completely misunderstand. Digital currency sounds like freedom. Until the money disappears and there is nobody to call.In this conversation Erai Beckmann, who has built in regulated industries and is now working on blockchain infrastructure with governments, breaks down why the future of digital currency may not belong to the loudest crypto projects. It may belong to the ones building safety, regulation, identity, auditing, and trust before the public ever hears their name.This episode gets into crypto scams, blockchain regulation, stablecoins, KYC, AML, privacy, digital wallets, global trade, and why the next version of money may look less like speculation and more like infrastructure. The uncomfortable part is simple. If you would not trust the system with your parents life savings, maybe it is not ready yet.In this interview you'll learn:Why blockchain and crypto are not the same thingWhy fully decentralized money sounds powerful until something goes wrongHow regulation could make digital currency safer instead of killing itWhy the future of blockchain may look more like banking infrastructure than internet gamblingHow digital wallets could change global trade, payments, and access to moneyFollow Rick's Socials:Instagram | LinkedIn | RickJordan.TVKeywords: digital currency, blockchain, crypto, cryptocurrency, stablecoins, blockchain regulation, crypto regulation, digital assets, web3, decentralized finance, defi, kyc, aml, money laundering, crypto scams, crypto hacks, ransomware, digital wallet, financial technology, fintech, stablecoin regulation, genius act, clarity act, cbdc, tokenization, real world assets, blockchain security, financial freedom, banking system, swift system, global payments, future of money, crypto safety, digital money, financial privacy, blockchain trust, peace through trade, e-rai beckmann, rick jordan, frequency podcast

In this week's episode of This Week in AML, John Byrne and Elliot Berman unpack a wide-ranging set of developments shaping the financial crime compliance landscape. They discuss the evolving geopolitical environment, including sanctions activity involving Iran, Russia, and North Korea, and examine new reports highlighting how cryptocurrencies are being used to evade international sanctions. The conversation also explores the rise and risks of meme coins, recent SEC efforts to combat retail investor fraud, FINRA's independent review of its enforcement program, and the Federal Reserve's proposed AML program rule. John and Elliot further discuss policymakers' growing interest in AI governance, including questions surrounding financial crime prevention, customer identification, and responsible adoption of emerging technologies. Whether you're focused on AML, sanctions, fraud prevention, regulatory policy, or AI in compliance, this episode delivers timely insights on the trends reshaping financial crime risk management.

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What does it actually take to wind down a crypto exchange responsibly?Following the withdrawal of Kriptomat's MiCA application, Delphine Forma speaks with Dejan Davidovič about one of the least discussed areas of crypto compliance: how to close a regulated business while continuing to protect customers and meet regulatory expectations.Together they explore how Kriptomat designed its wind-down strategy, communicated transparently with customers, selected Kraken as its migration partner, managed dormant accounts and asset delistings, and continued meeting its AML and reporting obligations long after trading had stopped.They also discuss the regulatory uncertainty surrounding firms caught between legacy licensing regimes and MiCA, why clear regulatory guidance on wind-downs is still missing, and the lessons every compliance officer, founder and policymaker should take from the first generation of MiCA applications.Whether you're preparing for authorisation, managing regulatory change or simply interested in the realities of running a regulated crypto business, this episode offers practical insights rarely shared in public.

What's up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!In this episode, I'm sitting down with Mudassar Malik, Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service and Founder and CEO of Deconflict.com, to talk about something our industry needs to get a whole lot better at: financial crime deconflict.Money mule networks do not care where one institution's visibility ends and another one begins. Pig butchering scams, romance scams, business email compromise, BEC fraud, account takeover, wire fraud, they all move across people, accounts, institutions, platforms, and jurisdictions. Meanwhile, too many of us are still trying to solve pieces of the same case from opposite sides of the wall.Mudassar walks us through what happens when law enforcement and banking actually have a better way to connect investigative intelligence, share what they are seeing, and recognize when different teams may be looking at the same financial crime pattern from different angles.This episode is not about sharing everything with everybody. It is about better fraud response, better financial crime intelligence, and better collaboration between the people who are already fighting the same criminal networks. Because if a credit union, a community bank, a larger institution, and law enforcement are all seeing pieces of the same mule activity, but nobody can connect those pieces fast enough, the criminals keep moving. And the victims keep paying for it. What you'll hear in this episode: Why financial crime deconflict matters for banks, credit unions, fintechs, and law enforcementHow the Deconflict platform helps connect investigative intelligence across financial crime casesWhy money mule networks, pig butchering scams, romance scams, and BEC fraud require cross-institutional visibilityWhere 314(b)d information sharing fits into the larger fraud response conversationWhy financial institution fraud prevention cannot stop at the edge of one institution's dataHow law enforcement data sharing can help fraud fighters move from isolated cases to connected intelligenceWhat teams can take back to think differently about collaboration and case escalation You should listen to this episode if you:Work in fraud, BSA, AML, investigations, or financial crime intelligence at a bank or credit unionAre trying to improve financial institution fraud prevention without adding more disconnected alertsSupport fraud response for scams, mule activity, business email compromise, or suspicious account movementWant a better way to think about law enforcement data sharing and investigative collaboration

In this episode of ASTCT Talks, Dr. Nirali Shah talks with Dr. Cath Bollard as part of the Titans of Transplant series to explore her remarkable career journey and lasting impact on the field of transplantation and cellular therapy. From early inspirations rooted in personal experience to her leadership in advancing cell therapy, Dr. Bollard reflects on her decades of experience across research, clinical care, and mentorship. The conversation highlights both the scientific progress in cellular therapies and the human stories that continue to drive innovation. Dr. Bollard also shares insights into the challenges of building a career as a physician-scientist and the importance of passion, resilience, and collaboration in advancing the field.Tune in for a conversation that covers:Dr. Bollard's path into pediatric hematology/oncology and the personal experiences that shaped her focus on immunotherapy.Key milestones in the evolution of cell therapy, including early translational work and the path to broader adoption.Ongoing challenges in treating diseases like AML and pediatric solid tumors.The importance of mentorship, team science, and developing the next generation of leaders.Reflections on balancing a demanding career with her personal life and staying grounded in purpose.Listen to the episode below or on your favorite app. Subscribe to ASTCT Talks and share this episode with your colleagues to keep the conversation going.

In this week's episode of This Week in AML, John Byrne and Elliot Berman examine major developments shaping the financial crime compliance landscape. They discuss newly released presidential financial disclosures, FATF's priorities under new President Giles Thomson, and a new FATF report on terrorist financing risks tied to social media, messaging apps, and streaming platforms. The conversation also covers the Rome Statement on Art Market Integrity, Binance's licensing challenges under the EU's MiCA framework, FinCEN and FBI actions targeting cartel-linked fuel theft and human smuggling networks, and the UK's evolving crypto asset regulatory regime. Additional topics include Europol's latest assessment of organized crime networks, the SEC's enforcement action against Merrill Lynch for SAR reporting failures, and the potential business and regulatory implications of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision affecting independent federal agencies. The episode concludes with a preview of upcoming AML RightSource content, including a discussion on AI and financial compliance.

Dimitri Masin was one of the first 30 employees at Monzo, where he led AI and data science as the bank grew from 30 to 4,000 people. That vantage point showed him where the real work in financial services still lives: the manual, repetitive customer operations running behind the app. In 2023, he co-founded Gradient Labs to automate that work with fully autonomous AI agents, and the company now serves more than 30 fintech and financial services customers. In this conversation, we get into why co-pilots can quietly degrade quality and compliance, why Dimitri believes full autonomy is the safer path, and the story behind what may be the largest known AI agent deployment in banking.What We CoveredFrom Google to one of the first 30 people at MonzoThe second half of the fintech transformationWhy customer operations never got reinventedWhat GPT-4 unlocked at the start of 2023Putting banks on autopilotSitting as an orchestration layer over existing systemsThe 15% customer experience uplift over human teamsWhy cost savings are more nuanced than people expectHow bank implementations and bake-offs actually workWhy co-pilots can degrade quality and complianceThe case for full autonomy over a human in the loopBenchmarking agents against the human team, not perfectionRedeploying staff instead of cutting headcountThe largest known AI agent deployment in bankingWhy banks aren't seeing productivity gains yetThe build-it-ourselves mindset shiftA five to ten year view of the transformationHow the US bake-off culture plays to a specialist's advantageKey TakeawaysThe overlooked opportunity in banking is not the app experience but the manual operational work behind it: customer support, AML, fraud, KYC, onboarding, and screening.Co-pilots can backfire. When suggestions are right 90% of the time, people start accepting them blindly, which degrades quality and compliance in the other 10%.No agent is correct 100% of the time, and that is the wrong bar. The right question is whether the system beats the human team it replaces, which becomes the benchmark.Automation has not meant layoffs at any of Gradient Labs' customers. Teams get redeployed to complex, higher-empathy work like vulnerability and financial difficulty cases.The bottleneck on transformation is not the technology, which has existed since GPT-4, but how slowly organizations diffuse and adopt it. Dimitri's horizon is five to ten years.About Dimitri MasinDimitri Masin is the CEO and co-founder of Gradient Labs, a London-based startup building autonomous AI agents that run customer operations for regulated financial services companies. Before founding the company in 2023 with two former Monzo colleagues, he was among the first 30 employees at Monzo, where he led AI, data science, financial crime, and fraud as the bank scaled to roughly 4,000 people. He started his career at Google.Connect with Fintech One-on-One:Tweet me @PeterRentonConnect with me on LinkedInFind previous Fintech One-on-One episodes

What does compliance look like when payments regulation, crypto licensing, and AML requirements are all changing at the same time?In the latest episode of Compliance Champions, Delphine Forma sits down with Hailey Shi, Legal Counsel at Manova, for a deep dive into Australia's rapidly evolving regulatory landscape and what it means for payment service providers, crypto businesses, and compliance professionals.They cover:• Australia's transition to a new function-based payments licensing framework • how the digital asset licensing regime will impact exchanges, broker dealers, custodians, and assets tokenization platforms • the implications of bringing crypto businesses into a broader financial services framework • the shift from prescriptive AML rules to risk-based compliance obligations • travel rule implementation challenges for payment providers and digital asset businesses • the introduction of reporting groups and lead entities under Australia's AML reforms • practical strategies for operationalizing major regulatory change across legal, compliance, product, and engineering teams • where AI can improve compliance efficiency and support regulatory implementation effortsHailey shares practical lessons from the front lines of regulatory transformation, offering valuable insights into licensing, financial crime compliance, governance, payments infrastructure, and digital asset regulation.A must-listen episode for professionals working in compliance, legal, financial crime, payments, fintech, and cryptocurrency regulation.

In this week's episode, Blood editor Dr. James Griffin interviews Drs. Heinz Zoller and Raul Ribeiro on their latest articles published in Blood. Dr. Zoller discusses "Ferric Carboxymaltose Increases Fracture Risk in Patients and Reduces Bone Formation in Mice with Iron Deficiency Anemia", and how these findings support consideration of alternative IV iron formulations that provide similar efficacy without risk of skeletal complications.  Dr. Ribeiro discusses "A low-versus standard-dose regimen an induction for AML: a multicenter, randomized noninferiority trial" and how the low-dose regimen is associated with fewer toxicities, faster hematologic recovery, and reduced health care costs, suggesting a feasible treatment strategy for resource-limited settings.

What's up fraud fighters, and welcome back to Fraud Forward!Today we are talking about ACH compliance, and I know that may not sound like the most exciting opener in the world, but if you work in fraud, payments, operations, compliance, treasury, management, or anywhere near ACH this matters because ACH is one of the most widely used payment rails in the country. And when something goes wrong, it doesn't just stay contained to one team. It impacts customers, creates operational strain, introduces regulatory risk, and can expose gaps in how your institution detects and responds to fraud.Over the last few months, I have had conversation after conversation with fraud leaders at community banks and credit unions who are asking the same questions. Do we need new technology? Are we expected to monitor every ACH transaction in real time? What exactly are examiners going to expect from us? And if your head has been spinning a little bit, I want you to hear me on this: you are not alone. This episode is about the real story behind NACHA Phase 2. And to me, the real story is not that every institution needs to run out and buy another fraud platform. The real story is that ACH compliance is becoming a much more intentional conversation. It is about knowing your risk, documenting your processes, understanding who owns what, and being able to explain why your institution monitors ACH fraud the way that it does.I actually think that is a good thing. Because for too long, our industry has leaned on liability as the finish line. If we are not liable, it is not really our problem. And technically, maybe sometimes that has been true. But operationally, ethically, and from a fraud fighter perspective, that has never sat well with me.Fraud does not live in silos. Neither should ACH fraud prevention.What you'll hear in this episode:Why NACHA Phase 2 is about intentionality, not just technologyWhat changed in the final Nacha ACH rules and why that flexibility matters How ACH compliance applies to community banks and credit unions now in scopeWhy layered controls do not always mean buying another vendor solution How false pretenses fit into ACH fraud detection and ACH fraud prevention Why RDFI compliance and ODFI compliance require clear ownership across teamsWhat examiners may expect when reviewing your ACH compliance programFive questions every institution should ask about ACH fraud documentationYou should listen to this episode if:You work in fraud operations, payments compliance, ACH operations, BSA, AML, or treasury managementYour institution is working through NACHA Phase 2 implementationYou are trying to understand ACH examiner expectations without overbuilding your programYou serve a community bank or credit union and need practical ACH compliance guidanceYou want to move from a liability mindset to a visibility mindset in payments fraud If you liked this episode, be sure to subscribe and review the podcast on iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

What happens when a mentor gets more out of an accelerator than the founders do?Zak Morris joined the Fuel accelerator as a subject matter expert in AI — but quickly realized he was learning just as much as the companies he was advising. In this episode, Zak breaks down how working with startups across cybersecurity, AML, and healthcare sharpened his own thinking, why Bentonville's density of world-class talent is an underrated advantage, and how one early conversation with a founder led to a permanent board seat.Whether you're a founder, a seasoned professional sitting on the sidelines, or someone who's never thought of themselves as a mentor — this one's for you.

In today's episode, we spoke with Courtney D. DiNardo, MD, MSCE, a professor in the Department of Leukemia in the Division of Cancer Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and an associate member of The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in Houston.In our exclusive interview, Dr DiNardo discussed the May 2026 FDA approval of decitabine (Dacogen) and cedazuridine (Inqovi) plus venetoclax (Venclexta) in patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML). DiNardo outlined numerous important facets of the approval, including its effects on the treatment paradigm, which patients will benefit most, safety considerations with the regimen, and quality of life advantages that have been observed with the combination. Furthermore, she discussed how this approval fits into a larger shift for the AML treatment paradigm and how the AML research field can build upon the approval of this regimen.

In this episode of This Week in AML, Elliot Berman and John Byrne break down key developments from the latest FATF plenary—highlighting a growing global emphasis on fraud, stronger public-private collaboration, and updated guidance on payment transparency and targeted sanctions. They also explore the Wolfsberg Group's refreshed framework for a truly effective risk-based approach, centered on proportionality, prioritization, and outcomes—not just compliance for compliance's sake. Back in the U.S., the conversation turns to the evolving regulatory landscape around stablecoins, including new proposed rules extending KYC and CIP requirements—and concerns about whether they go far enough to address illicit finance risks. It's a wide-ranging discussion that reinforces a central theme: effectiveness—not just effort—is becoming the defining standard in AML.

English: In this episode of Whistleblower of the Week, guest host, Rachel Demeuse, an intern with Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, interviews William Bourdon. Bourdon is one of Europe's most prominent human rights attorneys, founder of Sherpa and PPLAAF, and the lawyer who successfully defended Antoine Deltour and Edward Snowden, reflects on four decades at the forefront of whistleblower defense. He assesses what Europe's legal arsenal actually offers those who dare to speak out.The conversation moves from law to philosophy, exploring the role of whistleblowers as sentinels of democracy, the deep cultural divide between Europe and the United States on financial rewards. It ends on a pressing note: Bourdon's sharp critique of FinCEN's proposed AML whistleblower regulations, which he sees as part of a broader assault on press freedom and dissent, and a dangerous signal to authoritarian regimes worldwide.French: Dans cet épisode de Whistleblower of the Week, William Bourdon, l'un des avocats de droits de l'homme les plus influents d'Europe, fondateur de Sherpa et de la PPLAAF, défenseur d'Antoine Deltour, Rui Pinto et Edward Snowden, revient sur quatre décennies passées à défendre ceux qui osent parler. De la loi Sapin II à la loi Wasermann, il évalue ce que l'arsenal juridique européen offre réellement aux lanceurs d'alerte.L'entretien s'élève ensuite du droit à la philosophie, explorant le rôle des lanceurs d'alerte comme sentinelles de la démocratie, le fossé culturel profond entre l'Europe et les États-Unis sur la récompense financière. Il se conclut sur une actualité brûlante : la critique acérée de Bourdon à l'égard de la nouvelle réglementation FinCEN, qu'il perçoit comme une attaque contre la liberté de la presse, et un signal dangereux envoyé aux régimes autoritaires du monde entier. Listen to the podcast on WNN or on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Amazon. Subscribe on your favorite platform!

In this urgent 15-minute conversation, Stephan speaks with Ricki Allardice, one of the leaders of the Property Rights Defense Group, about South Africa's Draft Capital Flow Management Regulations 2026 — the most serious threat to Bitcoin self-custody the country has seen.Ricki breaks down exactly what the draft rules would do to private keys, self-custody, and everyday Bitcoiners, where the process stands right now, and what the community can still do before the 30 June 2026 public comment deadline.Timestamps:(00:00) - Overview of the Regulation Against Self Custody(04:07) - Public Consultation Process (05:49) - Can it be challenged?(07:20) - It's About Capital Controls(08:02) - AML, Sanctions, FATF (10:46) - What does it mean for Bitcoiners in South Africa?(12:22) - Safety or Security concern here?(14:22) - Call to Action and Support for Legal DefenseLinks: Site: propertyrightsdefense.orgX: https://x.com/PRDG_ZA Donate: https://btcpay386617.lndyn.com/apps/4TcSxV6dNFYzb1DBDthPL89Tjz72/crowdfund?ref=propertyrightsdefense.org Stephan Livera links:Follow me on X: @stephanliveraSubscribe to the podcastSubscribe to Substack

"We typically think of the disease progressing for our higher-risk patients because many of them already start with increased blasts or a lot of dysplasia. And they have these chromosomal variants that make them prone to evolving into acute myeloid leukemia (AML). With them, we can anticipate that they are going to progress to AML. And that's what we're trying to prevent. It's kind of like a biologic evolution and not a switch," ONS member Sara Tinsley-Vance, PhD, APRN, AOCN®, nurse practitioner and quality-of-life researcher at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL, told Lenise Taylor, MN, RN, AOCNS®, TCTCN™, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, during a conversation about long-term myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) considerations for oncology nurses. Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0  Earn 0.75 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) by listening to the full recording and completing an evaluation at courses.ons.org by June 19, 2027. The planners and faculty for this episode have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. ONS is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Learning outcome: Learners will report an increase in knowledge related to management of long-term side effects related to myelodysplastic syndrome and its treatment. Episode Notes  Complete this evaluation for free NCPD.  ONS Podcast™ episodes: Episode 415: Myelodysplastic Syndrome Treatment Considerations for Oncology Nurses Episode 411: An Overview of Myelodysplastic Syndrome for Oncology Nurses Episode 256: Cancer Symptom Management Basics: Hematologic Complications Episode 220: Oncologic Emergencies 101: Febrile Neutropenia and Sepsis Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing articles:  Exploring Experiences of Bereaved Caregivers of Older Adult Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia Family Caregiver Preparedness: Developing an Educational Intervention for Symptom Management Incorporating Nurse Navigation to Improve Cancer Survivorship Care Plan Delivery Oncology Nursing Forum article: An Integrative Review of Sex Differences in Quality of Life and Symptoms Among Survivors of Hematologic Malignancies ONS book: BMTCN® Certification Review Manual (second edition) ONS course: Psychosocial Dimensions of Cancer Care™  ONS Learning Libraries:  Survivorship Learning Library Hematology, Cellular Therapy, and Stem Cell Transplantation Survivorship Care Plan Huddle Card American Association of Colleges of Nursing End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) American Cancer Society: Living As a Myelodysplastic Syndrome Survivor American Society of Hematology Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation: MDS Toolkit Blood Cancer United: Myelodysplastic Syndromes Family Caregiver Alliance HealthTree Foundation Inspire: MDS Support and Discussion Community Myelodysplastic Syndromes Foundation To discuss the information in this episode with other oncology nurses, visit the ONS Communities.  To find resources for creating an ONS Podcast club in your chapter or nursing community, visit the ONS Podcast Library. To provide feedback or otherwise reach ONS about the podcast, email pubONSVoice@ons.org. Highlights From This Episode "When our higher-risk patients have disease-related progression, their [malignancy] can transform to AML. And we know this occurs in about one-third of our patients and is one of the most serious late effects. Even in lower-risk disease, we have this worsening marrow failure with or without increasing blast, where [patients] may have just started out with anemia, then they also develop neutropenia and thrombocytopenia. And as those counts worsen, we usually know that their disease is progressing." TS 2:47 "The golden rule is looking at the blood count but also looking at the patient and how they're doing over time. The backbone of MDS monitoring is the complete blood cell count with the differential. What you're looking for is trends over time. How many units of blood are they receiving, what threshold are you going to transfuse them at, and how many units of blood are they getting at a time? ... And then paying attention to the absolute neutrophil count for infection risk. [Another] really important piece of when you look at the differential with patients is seeing if they have any abnormal cell counts. Do they have circulating blasts? Are those monocytes going up? If you start to see blasts circulating or increasing monocytes, then their disease could be changing, even if they have low-risk disease." TS 15:58 "For lower-risk disease, we're paying more attention to their quality of life, how the patient's tolerating therapy, trying to help them stay safe over the long haul, and starting them on iron chelation if it matches that patient and they can have access to those drugs. ... For higher-risk disease, if the patient's goal is to be cured and not to progress to AML, you want to get them to transplant if that's [also] one of their goals. If they do evolve into AML, try and see what treatment matches best for them." TS 22:28 "You want to start early for patients who have febrile neutropenia—that's really important when a patient is an hour or two away from a center where they can get started on antibiotics. So, you have to think outside the box. What can we do to keep them safe? ... I know this group in Alaska that's in our advisory meetings and they try to facilitate transportation to Seattle. That's the closest academic center to them. Collaborating with telemedicine appointments, starting earlier, developing that strong relationship with patients, and contacting them between visits [can help patients living in rural areas]." TS 25:22 "I think the biggest [psychosocial challenge] I see is a lot of unmet anxiety and depression counseling. A lot of times, [patients are] losing their place in their family because they're the ones that need all the help now. Also, the uncertainty that goes along with the diagnosis. There is communication skills counseling, and End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) has a lot of training for communication skills and how to really talk to patients. Not that we take the place of a psychologist, but just being able to talk to somebody can go a long way. And if we can get training for that, we can help more patients." TS 31:15

This week on This Week in AML, Elliot Berman and John Byrne unpack major developments shaping the financial crime landscape. They discuss FinCEN's guidance expanding Section 314(b) information-sharing to include fraud and what it means for financial institutions. The conversation also covers new CFPB guidance on lending and immigration-related risks, increased IRS scrutiny of nonprofits, and enforcement actions from the UK and New Zealand. Plus, they explore growing concerns about the future of U.S. anti-financial crime leadership, the challenges of beneficial ownership transparency, and ongoing investigations tied to high-profile cases.