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Fraud moves across borders without friction. The information needed to stop it does not. In this episode of Global FinCrime Fighters, our guest is Nick Maxwell, who leads the Future of Financial Intelligence Sharing (FFIS) Research Programme at the Royal United Services Institute. FFIS is an international comparative research programme examining how different jurisdictions and private sector platforms share information to detect, disrupt and prevent fraud and financial crime.

The conversation centres on a recent FFIS survey of the leaders running fraud risk information sharing platforms around the world. Their answers reveal a striking disconnect: near-unanimous agreement that cross-border sharing is essential, alongside significant gaps in practice. Nick explains why the obstacle is legal rather than technical, since these platforms were built inside national law to fight a crime that ignores national boundaries.

We also discuss how a fraud attack unfolds and why different sectors see different parts of it, why an anti-money laundering system built around suspicion and measured in weeks fits poorly against a crime measured in minutes, what FATF could do with the political mandate it now has, and where cooperation is already delivering results.

The episode is hosted by Piotr Bobolowicz.

In the premiere episode of Global FinCrime Fighters, our guest is Nick Court, acting Director of the INTERPOL Financial Crime and Anti-Corruption Centre. The interview was recorded during the Global Fraud Summit 2026 in Vienna.

• The AI-supported fraud: A look at the staggering 50% increase in INTERPOL fraud notices and how criminals leverage generative AI for deepfakes - and how law enforcement fights back.

• The Silver Notice: What is the new tool the pilot phase of which spans 81 countries and has already successfully helped tracing over €35 million in organized crime funds.

• Public-Private Alliances: Why disrupting borderless financial crime requires real-time intelligence sharing between law enforcement, banks, and tech giants.

Nick Court was seconded to INTERPOL in 2020 from the City of London Police, the UK’s national lead force for fraud and cyber-crime. He is currently the acting Director of the INTERPOL Financial Crime and Anti-Corruption Centre, with a duty to manage the organizational response to fraud, money laundering, asset recovery and corruption. The episode is hosted by Piotr Bobolowicz.

Last year in the United States, extortion was the most reported online fraud of any kind, ahead of investment scams and romance scams. A criminal obtains an intimate image, real or AI-generated, then demands payment to keep it private.

In this episode of Global FinCrime Fighters, our guest is Alison Jimenez, President of Dynamic Securities Analytics, whose research follows sextortion proceeds from the victim's payment app through mule networks to cash-out abroad. She came to the subject through work on cryptocurrency and CSAM and stayed with the question that follows every case: how does $75 from a teenager's payment app end up in a pocket in West Africa?

• A crime measured in minutes: from a fake profile to a reciprocated image to an escalating demand within hours, and why the model is mass targeting for small sums rather than months of grooming.
• Where the money becomes visible: night-time peer-to-peer payments to unknown adult counterparties, and the mule accounts that collect from several children before converting everything to crypto.
• Safety by design: why removing the ability to collect the money removes the motivation and what banks and cash apps offering teen accounts could retrofit now.

The episode is hosted by Piotr Bobolowicz.