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Integrity Insights – the Berlin Risk Podcast – Episode 26

Professional football moves enormous sums of money across borders, often at speed and through complex ownership and payment structures. But are the financial controls around those transactions keeping pace?

In this episode of Integrity Insights, Filip Brokes speaks with James Kitching, an Australian sports lawyer, former FIFA Director of Football Regulatory and founder of The FC, about the regulation of football’s global transfer system and the financial crime risks surrounding it.

James explains how his career took him from white-collar crime enforcement in Australia to the Asian Football Confederation and FIFA, where he helped develop major regulatory reforms, including the FIFA Clearing House. He discusses how the system automates the payment of training rewards to clubs, while introducing KYC, beneficial ownership, sanctions and source-of-funds checks into parts of the transfer process.

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Integrity Insights – the Berlin Risk Podcast – Episode 25

Filip Brokes is joined by Emmanuelle Saliba, Chief Investigative Officer at Get Real, about deepfakes, synthetic identities and AI-driven identity fraud.

They discuss how generative AI is changing misinformation, social media manipulation, voice cloning and remote identity verification, with a focus on what these risks mean for businesses, governments and individuals. The episode is relevant for listeners working on corporate security, financial crime, fraud prevention, cybersecurity, OSINT and digital investigations..

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Integrity Insights – the Berlin Risk Podcast – Episode 24

Filip Brokes is joined by Thom Townsend, Executive Director of Open Ownership, about the evolving global landscape of beneficial ownership transparency.

The conversation revisits one of the major turning points in the transparency agenda: the November 2022 Court of Justice of the European Union ruling, which restricted unrestricted public access to beneficial ownership registers. Thom explains how the decision created a “seismic shift” in Europe and beyond, prompting some jurisdictions to pause reforms or reassess public access models. At the same time, he highlights that the ruling also confirmed an important role for civil society, journalists and academia in fighting money laundering through access based on legitimate interest.

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Integrity Insights – the Berlin Risk Podcast – Episode 23

Filip Brokes is joined by Verena Horne (Director at Berlin Risk) and Davids Alksnis (Consultant at Berlin Risk) to discuss the fundamentals of background checks and due diligence investigations.

The conversation provides a practical overview of how integrity due diligence works in real-world scenarios, why clients rely on external investigators, and how risks are identified, assessed, and communicated..

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