Financial Integrity Hub – The Podcast FinCrime Hates
Way back in July 2024, Macquarie University launched the Financial Integrity Hub podcast series on financial crime and compliance, focusing on what to look out for, who’s at risk and what you can do to combat the baddies. We’ve been listening to this podcast since the first episode to keep ourselves in the loop and think you should too!
Why This Podcast Matters
The FIH (Financial Integrity Hub) was created to bring academia, industry and government together to build a central ecosystem that supports the interests of financial compliance and AML/CTF (Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Terrorism Financing) – it's a future-focused space to gather insights and understanding on how to recognise and fight financial crime. Their podcast helps drive those objectives forward, with financial crime experts across Australia shedding light on some of the key issues facing the AML/CTF industry. Guest speakers include:
- Nathan Lynch, author of The Lucky Laundry,
- Anthony Quinn, Founder of Arctic Intelligence,
- Jeremy Moller, Risk Advisor at Norton Rose Fulbright
- Brendan Thomas, CEO of AUSTRAC
... to name a few.
What You’ll Learn
Season 2 of the podcast addresses the changing AML/CTF landscape in Australia and provides insights into how to best navigate the new regulatory compliance requirements – a set of reforms that have gateway industries a little on edge. The episodes cover how to identify and mitigate financial crime, how terrorist financing adapts with new technologies and how corporate financial crime often involves multiple parties, making it harder to track corruption, and much more.
In episode three, environmental crime and law enforcement advisor, Davyth Stewart, talks about corporate crime, how trade-based money laundering contributes to a huge percentage of financial crime and how illegal logging became a growing problem in the industry. While in episode five AUSTRAC CEO, Brendan Thomas, touches on the impending AML/CTF reforms, AUSTRACs focus on “reducing harm” and how regulators need to avoid "compliance for the sake of compliance”, he also highlights how data analytics and new technologies are key in keeping Australia’s financial integrity in place.
Why It’s Timely
With AUSTRAC rolling out Tranche 2 reforms in July 2026, the FIH podcast is an indispensable resource for educating anyone affected by financial and regulatory compliance and in fighting the good fight against crooks perpetuating financial crime.
The FIH Team have been fighting the good fight for a long time, and the podcast is a great way to hear about a global problem that seems to get bigger every year. It addresses how financial crime proliferates through varied industries, not just financial institutions, and what gatekeeper professions need to be aware of to protect their business and the wider community.
To listen to the podcast, visit the FIH.
If you want to learn how to embed modern financial crime compliance into your business, come and say hello!