Themis Podcasts

Episode 7: Detect and Disrupt Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking

In this episode we talk with: Peter Barnes - Head of Financial Crime Investigations at Standard Chartered and Chair of the Joint International Money Laundering Task Force’s Modern Slavery Working Group. Prior to taking on investigations roles in the financial sector, Pete served 18 years in the Metropolitan Police Force. Nick Dale - Superintendent with West Midlands Police. He has recently had a variety of roles including being the Local Responsible Officer for Birmingham, a role designed to tackle issues of violence relating to gangs and organised crime. He was also the Senior Investigating Officer for Operation Fort, the UK’s largest modern slavery investigation, involving about 400 victims, which has led to eight offenders receiving 55 ½ year prison sentences so far. Barry Koch - an internationally recognized expert in anti-money laundering and financial crime risk management who held senior legal and compliance positions at JP Morgan Chase, Western Union, and American Express.

Episode 6: Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking - Survivor Financial Inclusion

This Podcast is brought to you as part of a key industry-wide research project commissioned by the UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner and delivered in partnership with Tribe Freedom Foundation and Themis. It is one of a series of focus groups and round-tables will be releasing that addresses Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking and the Financial Sector.
In this episode, we talk about access to bank accounts for survivors of Modern Slavery in the UK, and what the financial services sector should be doing as a whole to help support victims.

Episode 5: Is Financial Crime Compliance treated like a roll of the dice?

Grab your chips, we are about to talk about the elephant in the room, Financial Crime Compliance, in land based casinos and digital gaming. In this podcast Sandeep Sroa, Associate Director of Themis Services, talks to Josie Preston, Head of AML of Ritz Club, Knightsbridge, London. We talk about Financial Crime Compliance and the impact to land based and digital gaming. Covid-19 has shut down the world, including land based casino's. Gaming customers are now more likely to be playing online as an alternative, however, does iGaming have the controls, governance, defence capabilities to ensure money laundering is kept at bay? Find out more in this exclusive interview.

Episode 4: A Good News Story - Integrity Icon, the Program to ”Name and Fame” Honest Government Officials

Viri Chauhan, MD of Themis Community talks to Blair Glencorse, Executive Director and founder of Accountability Lab about Integrity Icon. Imagine a show, not focusing on celebrities, but instead on government officials. Integrity Icon (formerly known as Integrity Idol) is a movement to celebrate, encourage and connect honest civil servants who demonstrate exemplary integrity in their work.
Blair and Viri also discuss the challenge of illicit financial flows (a concept explained in the corruption module) and how the impact of corruption is closer to home than you would normally imagine.

Episode 3: Corruption doesn’t have a colour

In this Podcast Themis Head of Investigations, Henry Williams, interviews Adjoa Adjei-Twum, CEO of EBII Compliance, about Africa's corruption perception problem, and the positive signs she sees for the continent's future.

Episode 2: Demystifying the Dark Web with Professor Richard Benham: Middle East Edition

In this episode we explore the dark underbelly of the internet, with a recording of a recent webinar we held in partnership with Acuris Risk Intelligence and the Capital Club Dubai. The webinar was titled Dark Mattter(s); Demystifying the Dark Web. In this middle east edition of the webinar, we explore what the dark web is, the current and emerging threats that we are all exposed to especially during lockdown, with a focus on the middle east. Professor Richard Benham, a leading expert in cyber crime and the world’s first formal professor of Cyber Security Management, leads us through an overview of this lesser known part of the world wide web, and Nick Parfitt – Head of Market Planning for Acuris, puts questions to Richard from the audience.

Episode 1: An Audience with co-Author of Billion Dollar Whale - Bradley Hope

Introduced by Themis CEO, Dickon Johnstone and Compered by Wall Street Journal Editor EMEA, Thorold Barker, our listeners will get insight into the the 1MDB scandal that rocked the financial world. In part the story was exposed by Bradley Hope, Wall Street Journal Journalist.