The Laundry
by Strise
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E180: Is football ready for the AML rulebook?
E180: Is football ready for the AML rulebook?
About this podcast
The Laundry is the podcast connecting AML (anti-money laundering), compliance, and financial crime to the real world!
Dive deep into the intricacies of financial crime, AML (anti-money laundering), compliance, sanctions, and the ever-evolving landscape of global financial regulation.
Hosted by Marit Rødevand, Fredrik Riiser, and Robin Lycka – this podcast features renowned experts from banking, fintech, regtech, compliance, and investigative journalism.
Together, they shed light on the industry's trending topics, analyse mainstream news through a compliance-focused lens, and connect the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing to its real-world consequences and ramifications.
The Laundry is proudly produced by Strise, the AML Automation Cloud.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 210 episodes
- E180: Is football ready for the AML rulebook? · 31 min · Season 12 Episode 10In 2018, emails leaked by a Portuguese hacker began exposing the inner workings of Europe’s biggest football clubs. Manchester City was one of them. The fallout is still one of…
- E179: Who is buying flowers at midnight? A money laundering walking tour · 26 min · Season 12 Episode 9What’s the key skill in fighting financial crime? Most people would say a head for data, spreadsheets and analytics. But maybe it’s walking past a florist that’s open at…
- E178: Are criminals better at collaborating than we are? · 40 min · Season 12 Episode 8Recorded on stage at the International Anti-Financial Crime Summit in London. Are criminals better at collaborating than we are? If there’s one thing this industry loves, it’s…
- E177: How dangerous is crypto's hold on politics? · 30 min · Season 12 Episode 7Donald Trump in 2025: "I'm a big crypto fan. I've been that from the beginning." Donald Trump in 2019: "I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not…
- E176: Are Pokémon Cards fincrime’s hottest new toy? · 34 min · Season 12 Episode 6$190,000 of trading cards stolen in Tokyo with a hammer. One card sold at auction for $16.5 million. Somewhere between those two facts is the reason a children's card game…
- E175: How did vape shops become the frontline of money laundering? · 32 min · Season 12 Episode 5Last November in the UK, more than 2,000 vape shops, mini marts and candy stores were raided in a National Crime Agency (NCA) operation – with £11 million in cash seized. But…
- E174: Are fincrime professionals paid enough? · 35 min · Season 12 Episode 4We talk a lot about the dark money that makes the criminal world turn — but what about the money paid to the people fighting it? For all the responsibility, the stress, the…
- E173: Can we train AI to THINK like a fincrime investigator? · 24 min · Season 12 Episode 370% of us have already let AI loose on our day-to-day tasks — summarising documents, knocking out images, the usual. Turning it loose on a financial crime investigation is a…
- E172: Is this the end of beneficial ownership data? · 26 min · Season 12 Episode 2In August 2026, FinCEN made it official: US companies no longer have to disclose who actually owns them. Five years after the Corporate Transparency Act was signed into law as…
- E171: How do we put the "human" back into AI processes in fincrime? · 29 min · Season 12 Episode 1You've seen the stories: a big company makes staff redundant, replaces them with a shiny AI feature, then quietly hires them back once it all goes wrong. Why does this keep…
- E170: What does the board need to know about AML? · 35 min · Season 11 Episode 17"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…
- Re-Spin: How do we stop MLRO burnout? · 31 min · Season 11 Episode 16MLROs 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…
- Re-Spin: Did Wirecard's collapse shape the future of whistleblowing? · 26 min · Season 11 Episode 15The 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…
- E169: Is AMLA *really* on track? · 39 min · Season 11 Episode 14No one said building a regulator from the ground up would be easy. But when the organisation chair, Bruna Szego, describes it as like ‘flying a plane while building it’ – you…
- E168: Can following the money disrupt the illegal wildlife trade? · 32 min · Season 11 Episode 13The illegal wildlife trade is the fourth-biggest criminal market on the planet — behind only narcotics, counterfeiting, and human trafficking. And like any criminal trade of that…
- E167: What keeps payments players up at night? · 33 min · Season 11 Episode 12According to Money20/20, the EMEA region accounts for 48% of the world's outbound cross-border payment flows — just under half! Now put yourself in the position of assessing…
- E166: What does it take to get sanctioned by Putin at 17? · 22 min · Season 11 Episode 11What were you doing at seventeen? If you were getting into trouble, it might've been with your teacher or parents! How about uncovering money laundering and, in turn, being…
- E165: How do we combat the professionalisation of money laundering? · 31 min · Season 11 Episode 10What do you think is keeping anti-financial crime professionals up at night? According to Nasdaq Verafin's latest Global Financial Crime Report, there's something more pressing…
- E164: How do we turn technology against financial crime? · 41 min · Season 11 Episode 9Coming to you from Insight Denmark's recent 'Compliance & Legal in the financial sector' conference in Copenhagen! In the 1984 film Terminator, the T-800 is a threat — a machine…
- E163: Is the 2026 World Cup the financial crime event of the year? · 26 min · Season 11 Episode 8What happens when you take a World Cup fixtures wall chart, the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, the UN sanctions list, and a little AI magic? You uncover…
