The Laundry

What’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 midnight and wondering: who’s buying roses at this hour?We put that kind of thinking to the test on the streets of Oslo, looking at how the world around us can be used to launder money.Robin Lycka is joined by Asia Holt, Fincrime Domain Lead at Strise, for a money laundering walking tour.They discuss the tourism industry, car washes, and the financial system it all ends up in.Executive Producer: Matthew Dunne-MilesEditor: Dominic DelargyVideo: Loïs DunfordSubscribe to our newsletter, Fresh Laundry, here.____________________________________The Laundry connects anti-money laundering, compliance and financial crime to the real world — the headlines, the regulation behind them, and what non-compliance actually costs.Hosted by Marit Rødevand, Fredrik Riiser and Robin Lycka, each episode brings on practitioners from banking, fintech, regulators and investigative journalism to unpack what's actually happening in the industry.The Laundry is proudly produced by Strise – manual fincrime works ends now.Get in touch: laundry@strise.ai

Recorded 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 the promise of a silver bullet – the thing that stops financial crime in its tracks. And the one that keeps getting proposed is information sharing: public with private, private with private, and every arrangement in between.So is it still worth believing in?Marit Rødevand is joined by Kathryn Westmore, Director of Financial Crime at UK Finance, Kevin Newe, Illicit Finance Threats Lead at HMRC, and Matt Donahue, CEO and Co-Founder of Kodex.The panel discuss why information sharing hasn’t always worked, what we’d build differently if we started from scratch, and what stops us being as creative as the criminal networks we’re chasing.Executive Producer: Matthew Dunne-MilesEditor: Dominic DelargyVideo: Loïs Dunford/Tinashe GutuSubscribe to our newsletter, Fresh Laundry, here.____________________________________The Laundry connects anti-money laundering, compliance and financial crime to the real world — the headlines, the regulation behind them, and what non-compliance actually costs.Hosted by Marit Rødevand, Fredrik Riiser and Robin Lycka, each episode brings on practitioners from banking, fintech, regulators and investigative journalism to unpack what's actually happening in the industry.The Laundry is proudly produced by Strise – manual fincrime works ends now.Get in touch: laundry@strise.ai

$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 became one of the most portable stores of value on the planet.We're talking about Pokémon: the Japanese phenomenon that has hooked generations of collectors. The game that told children to "Catch 'Em All" now has a much darker following.Our expert host, Robin Lycka, is joined by Paolo Aprile, Founder of DM Dirty Money, and Nick Jarman, Founder & CEO of Certified Trading Card Association, to ask: "Are Pokémon Cards fincrime’s hottest new toy?"The panel discuss: how a simple, fun card game turned into something else entirely, and what happens when a whole market sits outside every AML rulebook on earth.Producer: Lois DunfordExecutive Producer: Matthew Dunne-MilesEditor: Dominic DelargySubscribe to our newsletter, Fresh Laundry, here.____________________________________The Laundry connects anti-money laundering, compliance and financial crime to the real world — the headlines, the regulation behind them, and what non-compliance actually costs.Hosted by Marit Rødevand, Fredrik Riiser and Robin Lycka, each episode brings on practitioners from banking, fintech, regulators and investigative journalism to unpack what's actually happening in the industry.The Laundry is proudly produced by Strise – manual fincrime works ends now.Get in touch: laundry@strise.ai

Last 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 despite the raids, 'hubs of polycriminality' persist on the high street. Solving it means following the money.Our expert host, Marit Rødevand, is joined by Sal Melki, Deputy Director of Illicit Finance at National Crime Agency, to ask: "How did vape shops become the frontline of money laundering?" The pair discuss: how high street stores became fronts for criminality, how that feeds into financial crime, and how to fight back.Producer: Matthew Dunne-MilesEditor: Dominic DelargyVideo: Loïs DunfordSubscribe to our newsletter, Fresh Laundry, here.____________________________________The Laundry connects anti-money laundering, compliance and financial crime to the real world — the headlines, the regulation behind them, and what non-compliance actually costs.Hosted by Marit Rødevand, Fredrik Riiser and Robin Lycka, each episode brings on practitioners from banking, fintech, regulators and investigative journalism to unpack what's actually happening in the industry.The Laundry is proudly produced by Strise – manual fincrime works ends now.Get in touch: laundry@strise.ai

We 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 expertise, and the constant need to adapt, compliance professionals are right to ask whether they're being paid what they're worth.Our expert host, Marit Rødevand, is joined by Quentin Downes, Divisional Director of Financial Crime, Compliance & Risk at Butler Rose, and Rebecca Robinson, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Tenora, to ask: "Are fincrime professionals paid enough?" The panel discuss what the market really pays right now, why so many roles feel stuck, training the next generation, and whether AI is about to rewrite salaries and job roles altogether.Producer: Matthew Dunne-MilesEditor: Dominic DelargyVideo: Loïs DunfordSubscribe to our newsletter, Fresh Laundry, here.____________________________________The Laundry connects anti-money laundering, compliance and financial crime to the real world — the headlines, the regulation behind them, and what non-compliance actually costs.Hosted by Marit Rødevand, Fredrik Riiser and Robin Lycka, each episode brings on practitioners from banking, fintech, regulators and investigative journalism to unpack what's actually happening in the industry.The Laundry is proudly produced by Strise – manual fincrime works ends now.Get in touch: laundry@strise.ai

70% 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 different question entirely.Our expert host, Robin Lycka, is joined by Asia Holt, Fincrime Domain Lead at Strise, to put it to the test: can we train AI to think like a fincrime investigator?They build an AI investigator from scratch, run it against a real case, and find out exactly where the limit of its effectiveness lies!Disclaimer: Everything mentioned in the podcast comes from public company records and reporting already published by reputable news sources. Nothing here is a new allegation — we're pointing to documented discrepancies, not proof of anything. No one named on this podcast is being accused of wrongdoing.Producer: Matthew Dunne-MilesEditor: Dominic DelargyVideo: Loïs DunfordSubscribe to our newsletter, Fresh Laundry, here.____________________________________The Laundry connects anti-money laundering, compliance and financial crime to the real world — the headlines, the regulation behind them, and what non-compliance actually costs.Hosted by Marit Rødevand, Fredrik Riiser and Robin Lycka, each episode brings on practitioners from banking, fintech, regulators and investigative journalism to unpack what's actually happening in the industry.The Laundry is proudly produced by Strise – manual fincrime works ends now.Get in touch: laundry@strise.ai

In 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 America's "toughest anti-corruption tool in a generation", the federal registry behind it is being switched off — and the data already collected is being deleted.Our expert host. Robin Lycka, is joined by Erica Hanichak, Co-Director of the FACT Coalition, to ask: is this the end of beneficial ownership data?They discuss: the government decision that will wipe 16 million reports, why it was taken, and its long-term consequences.Producer: Matthew Dunne-MilesEditor: Dominic DelargyVideo: Loïs DunfordSubscribe to our newsletter, Fresh Laundry, here.____________________________________The Laundry explores the complex world of financial crime, anti-money laundering (AML), compliance, sanctions, and global financial regulation.Hosted by Marit Rødevand, Fredrik Riiser, and Robin Lycka, each episode features in-depth conversations with leading experts from banking, fintech, regulatory bodies, and investigative journalism — dissecting headline news, unpacking regulatory trends, and examining the real-world consequences of non-compliance.The Laundry is proudly produced by Strise.Get in touch: laundry@strise.ai

You'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 happening? Swapping human expertise for AI is never a straight substitution – especially in financial crime.Our expert host, Marit Rødevand, is joined by Craig McLeod, Partner in Financial Crime & Risk Consulting at EY, to discuss: How do we put the "human" back into AI processes in fincrime? The pair discuss: the current issues with AI implementation, where the human element is essential, and how we 'course correct' for the future.Producer: Matthew Dunne-MilesEditor: Dominic DelargyVideo: Loïs DunfordSubscribe to our newsletter, Fresh Laundry, here.Listen to 'How fintech grows up and gets compliant', here.____________________________________The Laundry explores the complex world of financial crime, anti-money laundering (AML), compliance, sanctions, and global financial regulation.Hosted by Marit Rødevand, Fredrik Riiser, and Robin Lycka, each episode features in-depth conversations with leading experts from banking, fintech, regulatory bodies, and investigative journalism — dissecting headline news, unpacking regulatory trends, and examining the real-world consequences of non-compliance.The Laundry is proudly produced by Strise.Get in touch: laundry@strise.ai