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🎧 Season 2, The Business of FinCrime, Ep. 06

Welcome to Season 2 of The Perspective Podcast with Vic Maculaitis. In this episode, I will be providing a quick update on 3rd quarter 2025 investment and acquisition activity across the financial crime risk and compliance space. 🎧 on Substack → Also, read The 3rd Annual Mid-Year Market Update: 1H2025 Investments and

AI, Escalation, and the Boardroom: Redefining Human Leadership in Financial Crime Risk and Compliance

People at the Core With regulatory change and technology often taking center stage, the foundation of a successful AML program still lies with subject matter experts (SMEs) and human interaction, making judgment calls, advocating for and executing policy, and striking the balance between cost efficiency, risk mitigation, and regulatory compliance.

🎧 Season 2, FinCrime Strategy + Technology, Ep. 05

Welcome to Season 2 of The Perspective Podcast with Vic Maculaitis. This is a rebranding episode for FinCrime Strategy, a solocast series where I cover strategies for mitigating financial crime risk in five minutes or less. The time has come to broaden the title and scope of this solocast series.

🎧 Season 2, The Business of FinCrime, Ep. 05

Welcome to Season 2 of The Perspective Podcast with Vic Maculaitis. In this solocast series episode, I will cover the next wave of marketing hype that has emerged in the financial crime risk and compliance space: Agentic AI. 🎧 on Substack → Also, read The 3rd Annual Mid-Year Market Update: 1H2025 Investments

🎧 Season 2, The Business of FinCrime, Ep. 04

Welcome to Season 2 of The Perspective Podcast with Vic Maculaitis. In this solocast series episode, I will cover a mid-year update on investments and acquisitions in the financial crime risk and compliance space. The 3rd Annual Mid-Year Market Update: 1H2025 Investments and Acquisitions from i3strategies® Research 🎧 on Substack

Financial Crime Risk and Compliance: 3rd Annual Mid-Year Market Update: 1H2025 Investments and Acquisitions

Since 2015, i3strategies® has been a trusted advisor to the world's largest investment firms. For almost a decade, i3strategies® has offered investors peace of mind on significant commercial transactions and investment opportunities in an often difficult-to-understand niche market. In 2022, we began to track, informally, announced deal activity

🎧 Season 2, FinCrime Strategy, Ep. 04

Welcome to Season 2 of The Perspective Podcast. In this solocast series episode, I share concrete thoughts on a fairly controversial topic of where the BSA/AML Officer should sit within their organization. i3strategies® 🎧 on Substack

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML): Failure to Adopt is Your Biggest Risk

Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance is no longer a future concept to consider. If your institution is not now using AI in AML, you are falling behind your peers. That is never a place to be. Financial institutions worldwide are using a range of technologies, commonly

🎧 Season 2, FinCrime Strategy, Ep. 03

Welcome to Season 2 of The Perspective Podcast. In this solocast series episode, I share ways to evolve your thinking and get ahead of the responsive nature of your job as the Head of Financial Crime Risk Management. 🎧 on Substack

🎧 Season 2, Guest: Bret Hood

Welcome to Season 2 of The Perspective Podcast with Vic Maculaitis. In this episode, I am joined by Bret Hood, a 25-year veteran of the FBI, author, speaker, and global instructor. We discuss the progression of Bret’s storied FBI career and how he has brought those significant experiences into