Keeping Curious explores the big questions around technology and financial crime with insights and perspectives from leading experts in the field. Join us LIVE for each 25-minute video interview episode, and ask your own questions at the end.

 

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Episode 3

Open Ownership and OpenSanctions are two organizations working to facilitate data access to empower those fighting financial crime. In a live interview with Stephen Abbott Pugh and Friedrich Lindenberg, we’ll address some of the barriers around ownership and sanctions data, what they're doing to break them down, and the stories the data can tell us.

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Episode 2

When it comes to financial crime risk, the ground is constantly shifting. What are likely to be the big challenges of tomorrow for financial institutions and other regulated industries? And what is the best way to meet them head-on? In this episode, we’ll look at what current trends can tell us about both the challenges & the solutions of tomorrow.

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Episode 1

It’s no secret that the financial crime landscape is growing more and more complex all the time, and new digital currencies only complexify the picture further. How should financial institutions think about cryptocurrency risk and compliance today? What’s changing in the crypto compliance space, and how are things likely to evolve?

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Meet Our Speakers

Tara Annison

Head of Technical Crypto Advisory | Elliptic

Tara is an experienced speaker and thought leader in the crypto industry, writing and educating on a broad range of topics. She is the author of The Bitcoin ABC Book and the creator of cardsagainstcryptocurrency.com.

Dev Odedra

Founder | The Laundry

Dev is an independent anti-money laundering and financial crime expert. He has significant experience in managing financial crime risk in the retail, corporate and investment banking sectors. His expertise covers investigations, advisory and controls implementation and improvement. Dev is the founder of thelaundrynews.com. 

Kathryn Peake

Content Manager | Linkurious

Kathryn has been a content creator in the technology industry for several years. Today she writes about the intersection of new technology and financial crime for Linkurious. 

Stephen Abbott Pugh

Head of Technology | Open Owndership
Stephen looks after the overall technical roadmap for the organization, providing technical assistance to governments with implementing technology reforms to advance beneficial ownership transparency. He is the product owner of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard and the Open Ownership Register, along with a range of other technical products. Before joining Open Ownership, Stephen was the content development manager for the Open Knowledge Foundation, and has also worked for Code for Africa, the UK Parliament and the Guardian.

Friedrich Lindenberg

Founder | OpenSanctions
Friedrich is a civic technologist with 12 years experience in opening data. From 2015 to 2021 he was the data team lead on the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, where he oversaw the development of the Aleph data platform and provided data engineering support for dozens of investigations related to money laundering and financial crime.

Who we are

At Linkurious, we provide the next generation of financial crime detection and investigation solutions. Simply powerful and powerfully simple, our technology helps teams of analysts and investigators in Global 2000 companies, governments, or non-profit organizations to prevent even the most sophisticated criminal networks from slipping through the cracks.