Financial Crime Weekly Episode 155

Financial Crime Weekly Podcast · May 4, 2025 · 33m

Hello, and welcome to episode 155 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. This week’s episode covers key developments in global sanctions enforcement, corporate transparency, and financial fraud. We look at China’s potential easing of sanctions on MEPs, concerns over UK professionals enabling Russian sanctions evasion, and OFSI’s latest amendments to Russian designations and Syria-related licences. The episode also dives into OFAC’s expanded counter-terrorism measures, the UK’s fraud bill aimed at strengthening welfare oversight, and the SFO’s latest bribery investigation…