Each fortnight ICA Vice President, Tim Tyler, explores the latest trends and developments in compliance and financial crime prevention with a special guest from across the world.
Expect explanation, analysis and application as Tim works with senior compliance professionals to make sense of the most significant and far reaching challenges we face today.
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If you are an ICA Member you can also find exclusive inCONVERSATION EXTRA episodes for this podcast series, available on our ICA Learning Hub.
These member-only bonus episodes delve into the inCONVERSATION topics in more detail, providing additional insights from our expert guests and enabling further reflection on industry best practice.
Latest episode
Training delivery - setting the standard
Original airdate: 09 Apr 2025
ICA has, for the first time, published details of our approach to training delivery. This helpful, high-level guide offers simple, practical insight that will be of value to anyone involved in commissioning, developing or delivering training solutions.
In this inCONVERSATION episode, ICA Vice President Tim Tyler, author of the guidance, will talk to Heather Wurster about the content, the key lessons and how, in the right hands, this leads to transformational training delivery. Heather is Managing Director of TdeG Ltd and former Course Director at ICA, during which time she introduced a radical new training model that focuses on understanding, skills and behaviours.
Compliance - what's the story? Pt. 2 Embracing technology: a five point approach
Original airdate: 26 Mar 2025
"By far the greatest danger of artificial intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it."
This quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky highlights a serious challenge as businesses rush to introduce significant and disruptive AI solutions.
Does the compliance function have a role in supporting business acquisition of new technologies? How can we enable effective adoption while managing the risks and ensuring that wider compliance requirements such as culture, legal and regulatory conformity are folded into tech adoption and new operating models?
This is the second in a series of three ICA inCONVERSATION LIVE episodes that seek to explore and better define compliance as a business enabler. ICA Vice President Tim Tyler will speak to Andrea Bonime-Blanc, CEO of GEC Risk Advisory LLC, author of many books, including the forthcoming Governing Pandora: Leading in the Age of Generative AI and Exponential Technology (Georgetown University Press 2025) and other titles now translated into three languages. The conversation will address the challenge, highlighting five key elements to a successful approach.
Human trafficking - a compliance responsibility
Original airdate: 12 Mar 2025
Human trafficking causes profound suffering, violates human rights, drives organised crime, and undermines communities across the world. As compliance and anti-financial crime professionals, we have a unique opportunity to do something about this, whether by preventing the profits moving through our organisations, ensuring the integrity of our supply chain or raising awareness of how traffickers operate.
In this inCONVERSATION episode, Tim Tyler talks to Neil Giles, Global Intelligence Ambassador and President of Stop The Traffik Analysis Hub, about current trends, the work of STT and how we can play our part in countering the threat.
Compliance – what's the story?
Original airdate: 26 Feb 2025
In the context of escalating costs and fierce economic headwinds, the compliance profession is besieged. Senior politicians have common cause with business leaders in looking to reduce the regulatory burden to, in their minds, free up enterprise and reduce costs. US President Trump's action to pause the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is the latest example of this untested agenda, but by no means the only one.
How can compliance professionals respond to this challenge? We believe there is compelling opportunity to evolve the compliance message whilst demonstrating how a healthy, partnering compliance function will not only protect the business it serves, but also enable growth whilst realising corporate ambition.
What does this mean in practice, and how should we define our role and demonstrate success? A series of three ICA inCONVERSATION episodes will explore the issues, identify good practice and suggest clear steps towards this goal. In this first episode, ICA Vice President Tim Tyler speaks to Valerie Nielsen, Managing Director of Longview Leader Corporation, about her experience, and in particular the three compliance goals of revenue growth, cost containment, and brand protection.
The Fraud Landscape 2025
Original airdate: 12 Feb 2025
Fraud presents a constant, pervasive threat that continues to mutate and evolve. New forms include the fraud-as-a-service model; the use of AI; synthetic identity and polymorphic approaches. In this conversation Tim speaks to Matthew Field, Head of the UK Fraud Advisory Panel about the nature of this threat, how it impacts on business worldwide, and how governments are responding to it.
Prospects for compliance in 2025
Original airdate: 22 January 2025
In this episode of ICA inCONVERSATION LIVE, Tim Tyler talks to Rosalind Dixon-Burnett, ICA's Global Lead for Governance Risk & Compliance about the impact current geopolitical, regulatory and technological developments will have on compliance over the next 12 months.
US regulatory policy; an increasing EU regulatory burden; market and consumer protection; online safety; multi-polar sanctions requirements; the impact of AI and operational resilience are some of the topics they touch upon in a conversation that searches for the high-level trends and how compliance professionals can respond to them.
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Recovering the proceeds of crime - A work in progress
Original airdate: 08 Jan 2025
Recovering the proceeds of crime disrupts the criminal business cycle, removes negative role models and reduces the incentive to commit serious crime. It is, however, challenging and time consuming. Criminal assets recovery levels are low, representing a tiny fraction of the overall criminal economy. In this episode of ICA inCONVERSATION, ICA Vice President Tim Tyler talks to Tristram Hicks, the author of The War on Dirty Money, and former head of Scotland Yard's asset recovery capability. The discussion will include a focus on barriers to success in asset recovery, and how compliance professionals across the world can help.
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About the host
As ICA Vice President Tim draws on significant experience in law enforcement, regulation and training in a career that has entailed responsibilities at local, national and international levels.
Tim joined the ICA from the GB Gambling Commission where, as AML Lead, he was responsible for AML policy and supervisory activity. This followed thirty years in UK Law Enforcement including the police and National Crime Agency. During this time he led small local teams up to large, national capabilities, with a focus on financial crime and international enquiries. Countering the threat of financial crime has been a recurrent theme throughout Tim’s career. He established money laundering investigation teams across the UK and in strategic locations around the world. He developed innovative tactics to track and eliminate money laundering at source. Tim worked in partnership with the Serious Fraud Office, FBI, DEA, and national crime agencies in Spain, UAE, and Italy.
The understanding and specialist skills Tim developed combine with seven years experience as a trainer and, increasingly as a thought leader in the context of leadership and financial crime.
