In this episode of Fridays with Fintelekt, Shirish Pathak, Managing Director, Fintelekt is in conversation with Alia Mahmud, Global Regulatory Affairs Specialist, ComplyAdvantage. Alia shares her opinion about the challenges compliance professionals face on a day-to-day basis, and on top of the list are the need for a robust governance framework and a strong second line of defense. She covers how metaverse has proved to be an exciting innovation, but comes with it’s own set of challenges, risks, and new money laundering and fraud typologies. She then talks about Environmental, Social and Gover ..read more

In this week’s Fridays with Fintelekt episode, Shirish Pathak, Managing Director, Fintelekt Advisory Services is in conversation with Robin Lee, Head of APAC, Napier. The conversation begins with Robin’s career path that has led to his current position at Napier, and how his experience has given him insights into the key issues faced by compliance officers in the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) industry. Robin highlights the important role technology plays in improving quality of reporting, keeping bad actors from misusing the financial system, and making financial institutions more compliant. He ..read more

In this episode of Fridays with Fintelekt, Shirish Pathak, Managing Director, Fintelekt is in conversation with Maria Nizzero, Research Fellow, Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) about RUSI’s latest research on the Illicit Finance Threat to Democracies. The research, primarily based on the transatlantic response to illicit finance, proposes 7 straightforward action items based on 3 underlying principles. The action items have universal applicability and hence the research can be valuable for policy makers across the world ..read more

In this new season of Fridays with Fintelekt, Shirish Pathak, Managing Director, Fintelekt Advisory Services is in conversation with Lakshmi Kumar, Director of Policy at Global Financial Integrity, Washington and Mark Nuttall, Director of Risk for APAC and MENA at Thomson Reuters, Singapore. The conversation revolved around the changing structure of supply chains due to various recent geo-political incidents, how these changes are affecting global trade, the consequence on the money laundering and terrorist financing risks, and therefore how regulators, banks and financial institutions should ..read more

On Fridays with Fintelekt today, Shirish Pathak, Managing Director, Fintelekt Advisory Services hosts Chrisol Correia, Financial Crime Compliance Consultant based in London. In his career spanning two decades, Chrisol has witnessed the evolution of the financial crime compliance function in terms of capability, resources, scale, infrastructure and culture and towards a broader understanding that good compliance is a business enabler and not a blocker. In the episode, Chrisol speaks on a variety of issues such as the benefits of technology for smaller institutions, regulatory expectations aroun ..read more

A milestone is reached for Fridays with Fintelekt today as Shirish Pathak, Managing Director, Fintelekt hosts his 50th guest Tadeo Jun Claravall, Founder, The Financial Crimes, and a student and teacher of financial crime risk and compliance. In the conversation, Jun explains the motivation behind his recently published book, Financial Crime Fighter – Book of Mentors, which is a collaboration with 30 global leaders in anti-financial crime. His goal for the book is to provide financial crime fighters all over the world with a secret weapon - access to advice, experiences and guidance from 30 ..read more

On Fridays with Fintelekt today, hear from Peter Piatetsky, Co-Founder and CEO, Castellum.AI as he provides his expert comments and analysis on the global sanctions regime, with host Shirish Pathak, Managing Director, Fintelekt. Peter has had a stint supporting US military operations and then with the US Treasury as senior policy advisory for Iran. His experience on the challenges in accessing data on sanctions led him to found Castellum.AI with the mission of building a 'google' for compliance, an easy to access online platform at an affordable price point so that anyone globally can fi ..read more

On Fridays with Fintelekt this week, host Shirish Pathak, Managing Director, Fintelekt is joined by Ross Delston, Expert witness, attorney & former US banking regulator (FDIC), who shares his varied experiences in policy responses to trade-based money laundering and trade-based terrorist financing, anti-corruption, corporate transparency and the risks from new technologies. Our key picks from this interesting conversation full of anecdotes and experiences from Ross's long career are: There hasn't been much progress in combating TBML and that all elements in the trade supply chain sho ..read more

Fridays with Fintelekt today features J Michael Skiba, international financial crime expert, with host Shirish Pathak, Managing Director, Fintelekt Advisory Services in a conversation around fraud. Michael, popularly known as Dr. Fraud, has had several years of experience helping individuals and corporations become safer against frauds, scams and schemes. Michael's experience shows that in the financial services sector, fraud is more a matter of opportunities, as 96% of people committing fraud have no criminal history. He says that the Covid-19 pandemic has changed many aspects of the ecosyst ..read more

Fridays with Fintelekt today features Jessica Davis, President, Insight Threat Intelligence, an expert on terrorist and illicit financing, with host Shirish Pathak, Managing Director, Fintelekt Advisory Services. Jessica explains the implications of the complex situation in Afghanistan, and the likely evolution of Al Qaeda, ISIL-KP, their own strategic objectives and their relationship with the Taliban in the region. All of these groups are drawing resources from Afghanistan, but counter terrorism financing (CTF) options with the global community are fairly limited, especially ..read more