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Opinions My Own: Risk, FinTech and the Law

Paul Caulfield & Zila Acosta-Grimes

“The following opinions are my own.” It"s an oft-used phrase when experts speak publicly about matters - financial crimes, cybersecurity, technology and the law - smack in their wheelhouse. We’re after these insights as we delve deep into these topics on a global scale... for the sole purpose that education drives performance. Creators & Hosts: Paul Caulfield, Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School; Partner and Practice Head, Financial Regulation, & Cybersecurity, Ruddy Gregory, PLLC;

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00:56:25

#15: China & Our Information: Cut & Run...or Stick &...

Opinions My Own: Risk, FinTech and the Law ·

2025/04/21

The very idea that any industrialized nation or multi-national company can live without the United States or China as a key economic partner or commercial driver is a false narrative. This includes the Unites States with China, vice versa and their own multi-nationals. The true narrative, and the one we delve into, is how such nation and companies operate more securely with and within China – protecting their own people, goods, inventions and processes, beginning with their data.Enter Sherman Deng,

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01:02:16

Cover Your Crypto Ass...ets

Opinions My Own: Risk, FinTech and the Law ·

2025/03/19

Lili Infante spent 11 years as a Special Agent in the DEA. She specialized in digital assets....cryptocurrencies, honing her craft in asset recovery. Lili finds digital wallets, pass phrases and private keys in petabytes of data. Now in private practice with CAT Labs, Lili and her team have raised nearly $10 million, which is helping them help the federal government recover millions in seized crypto assets. She's not stopping there as the team now looks to offer digital asset recovery technology

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00:05:29

Is Breaking Up (With AI) Easy To Do? It Should Be.

Opinions My Own: Risk, FinTech and the Law ·

2025/01/23

For the entire episode on emotionally intelligent AI characters and the dangers they pose, please go to OPINIONS MY OWN: Risk, FinTech & the Law, on: YouTube, Spotify or Apple. Thank you for listening.

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01:12:03

#13: Do Children Dream of Electric Hugs?

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2025/01/23

Emotional. Intelligent. Artificial. In Philip K. Dick's 1968 science fiction novella, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, empathy tests separate man from droid in 2021. But the tests have become easier to pass, androids demonstrating characteristics indistinguishable from humans. Today, in real life, boys, girls and emotionally at risk adults are developing relationships with artificially intelligent characters online and in person. Serious risks abound. This episode, my interview with Dr

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00:53:58

#12: Solutions Only - The Terrorism of Pig Butchering

Opinions My Own: Risk, FinTech and the Law ·

2024/12/09

"Pig, I will SLIT your throat. I will CONSUME you, tail to snout."The horrors of PIG BUTCHERING have yet to be fully appreciated. If they were, we’d be MOBILIZING. Like we did as a Nation after the Attack on Pearl Harbor. After 9/11. Like we did as a collective society, globally, during Covid. We’d be adopting and spreading technology. Like we did with Facebook. Like we are with Artificial Intelligence. ERIN WEST is done talking about the problem, the human trafficking, the slave labor camps, the

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00:37:55

#11: Protecting Our Cyber Heartland

Opinions My Own: Risk, FinTech and the Law ·

2024/09/15

Eugene Kowel and I met September 4, 2001, at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. Since we left, I’ve been in the private sector working in law, risk, financial crimes compliance and cybersecurity. Gene has been with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Join me as I speak with Gene about what led him from DANY to the FBI, including his time in Afghanistan and Iraq, why the FBI leans internationally to protect us domestically, his work on both our coasts in violent, drug and white

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01:00:33

#10: Touring the Dark Web [WARNING]

Opinions My Own: Risk, FinTech and the Law ·

2024/07/18

WARNING. Human trafficking, illegal guns & drugs, child pornography, stolen cryptocurrency, credit cards.... this is the marketplace. Insulin, need any? Sex dolls, want some? This is the place, and there are 4 and 5-star reviews for those selling. Crime-as-a-Service? This is where bitcoin mixers and contract killers mingle with expert cartels and lone wolves with novice computer skills in an un-indexed, haphazardly policed bizarre bazaar. Welcome to the Dark Web. Don't have the stomach

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00:51:32

#9: Executive Cyber Resilience

Opinions My Own: Risk, FinTech and the Law ·

2024/04/16

Scene One: Industry Conference<The moderator leans in.> Moderator: "What keeps you up at night?" CEO: Cybersecurity. Scene Two: Company conference room CISO: Well done, everyone. Great tabletop exercise. I discuss with the former CISO of the Israel Defense Forces, Gad Abadi, the root cause of Scenario One, so many CEOs' sleepless nights, and the glaring blind spot with Scenario Two, which overemphasizes the CISO, CIO and the technical SMEs but largely ignores the other

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00:30:16

#8: Better Call…A Crypto Lawyer

Opinions My Own: Risk, FinTech and the Law ·

2021/12/09

When do you need a lawyer? As a company engaged in blockchain, crypto or other innovative areas there are many instances when you might need to call a lawyer for advice on how to proceed in these uncharted waters. Throughout the previous episodes we have hinted at hiring lawyers and in this episode we speak to one of the lawyers you might need to hire - Lilya Tessler. Lilya is a partner and head of Sidley Austin’s FinTech and Blockchain group. If you need advice on regulations and the legal

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00:44:15

#7: Ready Player None: This is Not a Game

Opinions My Own: Risk, FinTech and the Law ·

2021/12/07

NO ONE IS WALKING THE #AML BEAT IN VIDEO GAMES, and the bad guys know it. Elsewhere...in cryptocurrencyland, the media, law enforcement, Capitol HIll, OK...everyone is talking about the newest, shiny ball. Regulation and enforcement will soon kick into overdrive as mainstream market adoption of crypto assets explodes. Just check out the Twitter feeds of Michael Saylor (MicroStrategy) and Gary Gensler (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair). Don’t even get us started about Bloomberg LP (news

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00:56:48

#6: Diamonds & Pearls (of Wisdom)

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2021/11/01

We’re big Prince fans here at Opinions My Own, and in honor of his best album turning 30, we sought out Don Palmieri, master gemologist, world renowned appraiser and decorated Vietnam veteran. As we’ve said, the diamonds and jewels industry needs some much needed light shined on (or is it through?) it - conflict diamonds, child labor, fraud, AML, corruption. In this, the enlightened age of ESG, our interview with Don, a 50 year veteran in the field, does just that.Please enjoy, share and like. Find

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00:18:52

#5: If A Woman Was A Gunslinger, She Would Have Done OK.

Opinions My Own: Risk, FinTech and the Law ·

2021/10/25

That’s Amanda Wick on America’s early frontier, the real Wild West. But in crypto, where the likes of tech bros haven’t yet fully dominated the field, Wick sees hope. But she’s got some hard scrabble advice… The first of our “Women Our Own” series, Amanda offers not-to-be missed insights on women in law and technology, especially cryptocurrency. Former federal prosecutor, current practitioner of Krav Maga and fierce advocate for women in [insert ANY industry here], Amanda isn’t mincing words: “What

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00:41:57

#4: So, You Want To Be In Crypto?

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2021/10/11

Guest: Amanda Wick, Chief of Legal Affairs of Chainalysis Inc., former DOJ Attorney, Senior Policy Advisor at FinCEN, Overview: "I personally think that bitcoin is worthless," Jamie Dimon, CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Monday, October 11, 2021 at the Institute of International Finance. “A Ponzi scheme from the jump.” That’s what cryptocurrencies are...right? In this episode, Zila and Paul speak with Amanda Wick, Chief of Legal Affairs at Chainalysis Inc. about her career in law and migration to

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00:39:28

#3: “The Bank of Crooks & Criminals": 30 Years Later

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2021/09/28

Guest: John Moscow, Deputy Chief, Investigations Division, New York County District Attorney’s Office (retired) Overview: John Moscow, the legendary Manhattan Assistant District Attorney, described the decades-defunct-but-still-notorious Bank of Credit and Commercial International to me this way: “It was a full service bank that would do anything its customers wanted.” (Emphasis mine.) Money laundering. Tax evasion. Drug trafficking. Terrorist financing. Moscow’s and, more precisely, D.A. Robert M

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00:43:40

#2: False Positives

Opinions My Own: Risk, FinTech and the Law ·

2021/09/15

Guests: Joe Friscia, Chief Revenue Officer, Tookitaki; former President, Nice Actimize Abishek Chatterjee, Founder & CEO, Tookitaki Overview: The bane of transactional surveillance - a regulatory requirement for identifying potentially suspicious, potentially criminal financial transactions - is the “false positive”. Basically, thousands of alerts are triggered, but only a small percentage require actual investigation. “What a waste!” would be the understatement of the year. The best and

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00:35:19

#1: Information Sharing

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2021/09/07

Guests: Alon Kaufman, CEO & Co-Founder, Duality Technologies; former Director of Data Science & Innovation, RSA; Jim Richards, Founder & Principal, RegTech Consulting Overview: It took 9/11 to bring new life to the 1973 Bank Secrecy Act. Since then, financial services firms worldwide have both spent and been fined billions of dollars to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and fraud. In this episode, Paul speaks with Alon Kaufman and Jim Richards about the state of AML, and is it

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00:07:42

#0: Cold Open: Our People & Purpose

Opinions My Own: Risk, FinTech and the Law ·

2021/09/06

Zila and Paul jump right in and present their vision for "Opinions My Own," their podcast on anti-money laundering, technology & the law. (Paul, you owe Zila lunch for getting the BSA date wrong! ...or just watch "Power" to settle all debts.) Time: 7:30 minutes

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