The Financial Crime Playbook: with Sarah Beth Felix | Designated

When most walk into a bank, they deal with the public-facing staff. Bank tellers. Maybe a loan officer. But what many don’t realize is that there is a whole group of personnel behind the scenes, yet they are on the front line against financial crime. They are the anti-money laundering compliance st…

Digital Terrorist Financing: with Dr. Shlomit Wagman | Designated

What does it take to run a nation’s anti-financial crime agency and stay one step ahead of those adapting to the changing world of finance faster than the government agencies tasked with stopping them?  By building better investigative and analytic methods through new technologies. Dr. Shlomit Wagm…

Chinese Economic Espionage: The Insider Threat with Scott Baucum | Designated

Scott Baucum’s official title at Bayer U.S. is Vice President of Special Compliance and Asset Protection. But his day-to-day focus is stopping those bad actors attempting to infiltrate American technology companies to steal their proprietary data. Sometimes those scheming to steal exist within the …

The Laundry Man: Ken Rijock | Designated

Sometimes it takes a money launderer to catch a money launderer.  During the 1980’s, Ken Rijock was starting his career as a lawyer in Miami. But he soon found himself acting as a middleman between Colombian drug cartels and their expanding US network, helping launder illicit funds gathered thro…

The Financial Intelligence Enforcer: John A. Cassara | Designated

The textbooks tell us financial intelligence is the process of gathering and analyzing financial activities in an effort to uncover threats or criminal dealings. But financial intelligence is more than just studying bank accounts and online transactions. To make an impact, financial intelligence re…

Defending the Whistleblower: Phil Brewster | Designated

Have you ever met a corporate whistleblower? Most of us haven’t. They do make the subjects of great movies, though. There's intrigue, suspense, and high stakes.  And usually a happy ending. But what exactly happens in real life when someone high up in a company, privy to corporate secrets, witnesse…

Designated - How to Outfox a Money Launderer: Lourdes Miranda

Money launderers use creative schemes to go undetected while moving illicit funds. But what happens when the person fighting launderers is someone with firsthand knowledge of these tactics, honed through real world life experience and unique cultural insights?  Enter Lourdes Miranda, a former CIA O…

Designated - Mapping Illicit Business Networks: Varun Vira

C4ADS- Center for Advanced Defense Studies- is a nonprofit that works to uncover illicit networks that threaten global peace and security through deep-dive investigations and intelligence analysis on data that may be publicly available, but hard to find. Through their investigative work, they’ve be…

Designated - Sanctions Warfare in the Next Administration: Juan Zarate

As with the transition of power for every Presidential administration, agendas are rethought, and priorities realigned.  And although America’s global economic and political power is buttressed by the integrity of its markets and sound rule of law, we must still be mindful of evolving methods of ec…

Designated: The TD Bank Disaster and How to Fix It: Jim Richards

In October, TD Bank pled guilty to money laundering and violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, incurring $3.1 billion dollars in penalties, putting the general public at risk, and shattering the trust of its own customers.  Sadly, this latest case of money laundering and lack of transparency is nothin…