Integrity Insights
by The Berlin Risk Podcast
Latest episode
The Deal Looked Clean – Until Investigators Looked Deeper
The Deal Looked Clean – Until Investigators Looked Deeper
About this podcast
Integrity Insights is a podcast from Berlin Risk, a Berlin-based corporate intelligence and compliance advisory firm. In the podcast, we cover the latest developments in the fields of financial crime, political risk, sanctions, open source investigations and much more. The podcast is hosted by Filip Brokes, consultant at Berlin Risk.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 27 episodes
- The Deal Looked Clean – Until Investigators Looked Deeper · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 27In this episode, Integrity Insights host Filip Brokes is joined by Vlada Tkach, Managing Partner at Berlin Risk, and Verena Horne, Director at Berlin Risk, to discuss what…
- Cleaning Up Football Finance: The FIFA Clearing House and EU AML Rules · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 26Professional football moves enormous sums of money across borders, often at speed and through complex ownership and payment structures. But are the financial controls around…
- Deepfakes and Synthetic Identities: The Erosion of Trust in Online Content · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 25In this episode of Integrity Insights, Filip Brokes speaks with Emmanuelle Saliba, Chief Investigative Officer at Get Real, about deepfakes, synthetic identities and AI-driven…
- The Global State of Beneficial Ownership Transparency · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 24In this episode of Integrity Insights, host Filip Brokes speaks with Thom Townsend, Executive Director of Open Ownership, about the evolving global landscape of beneficial…
- The Value of Background Checks and Due Diligence · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 23In this episode of Integrity Insights, Filip Brokes is joined by Verena Horne (Director at Berlin Risk) and Davids Alksnis (Consultant at Berlin Risk) to discuss the fundamentals…
- OSINT Techniques for Foreign-Language Research · 29 minIn this episode of Integrity Insights, Filip is joined by Skip Schiphorst of i-Intelligence, a specialist in multilingual open-source intelligence and online research. Skip…
- The Evolution of Open-Source Intelligence: A Conversation with Nico Dekens · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 21In this episode of Integrity Insights, we are joined by Nico Dekens, a recognized authority in the world of open-source intelligence (OSINT). With over 30 years of experience in…
- AML in Transition: What 2025 Meant for Compliance in Europe · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 20AML CFT Roundup 2025: What changed, and what comes next In this episode of Integrity Insights, Filip is joined by Jennifer Hanley-Giersch to review the biggest AML/CFT…
- Belgium Leading the Way in the Fight Against Money Laundering in European Football · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 19In this episode of Integrity Insights, host Filip Brokes is joined by Professor Niels Appermont, a professor of economic law at Hasselt University in Belgium, and an expert in…
- Why Real Estate Remains a Magnet for Dirty Money · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 18In this episode of Integrity Insights, Filip is joined by Michael Hornsby and Elisabetta Marinoni, researchers working with Transparency International and the Anti-Corruption…
- Money Laundering-as-a-Service: The Booming Business of Dark Web Money Laundering Services · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 17In this episode of Integrity Insights, Filip is joined by Daniel Shkedi, Head of Product Marketing and Strategy at Refine Intelligence, a fraud prevention company. He is also a…
- Fraud for Sale: Inside the Marketplaces Powering Financial Crime · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 16In this episode of Integrity Insights, Filip is joined by Jan Indra, a threat intelligence specialist with a decade of experience in financial crime prevention. Jan began his…
- Why the U.S. is Losing Ground in the Fight Against Dirty Money · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 15In this episode of Integrity Insights, we speak with Casey Michel, investigative journalist and Head of the Kleptocracy Program at the Human Rights Foundation in New York City…
- From Whistleblower to Founder: Pav Gill’s Journey after Wirecard · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 14In this episode, host Filip Brokes is joined by Pav Gill, former Head of Legal for the Asia Pacific region at Wirecard and current Founder & CEO of Confide Platform. Pav shares…
- Status Wars: Understanding the Psychology Behind Global Trade Conflicts · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 13In this episode, host Filip Brokes sits down with Carsten Giersch, Senior Partner at Berlin Risk Advisors and Managing Partner at ALL AML, for a wide-ranging discussion on how…
- Information Security Essentials: Ethical Hacking, Cyber Risk Checks and DORA · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 12In this episode of Integrity Insights, host Filip Brokes is joined by two seasoned experts to discuss information security, an increasingly crucial issue impacting businesses and…
- Inside Transparency International: Strategies to Tackle Global Corruption · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 11In this episode of Integrity Insights, our host Filip Brokes sits down with Daniel Eriksson, the former CEO of Transparency International, for an in-depth discussion on the…
- Travel Rule for crypto-asset service providers goes live in the EU · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 10In this episode of Integrity Insights, our host Filip Brokes engages in a deep dive with Lana Schwartzman, Head of Regulatory and Compliance at Notabene, into the evolving…
- AML/CFT 2024 Regulatory Roundup · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 9In this information-packed episode of Integrity Insights, host Filip Brokes welcomes managing partner of Berlin Risk and ALL AML Jennifer-Hanley Giersch for a comprehensive…
- From Moscow to Limassol: The Financial Pathways of Russian Migrants · 25 min · Season 1 Episode 8In this episode, out host Filip Brokes interviews Aron Ouzilevski, a journalist with expertise in Russian studies and post-Soviet affairs. Aron shares insights from his two-year…







