Episode 3: Using Financial Intelligence to End Modern Slavery

Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking: The Podcast

This week on Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking: The Podcast, we look at how banks, remittance companies and credit card companies have been analyzing financial transactions to spot modern slavery and human trafficking. We then look at the impact that partnerships between financial institutions, regulators and civil society actors can have on this type of analysis.

This podcast is hosted by James Cockayne, Head of Secretariat for the Liechtenstein Initiative for Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST). Guests in this episode include Tom Keatinge, Director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in the UK; Professor Jill Coster van Voorhout, Assistant Professor in (Inter- and Trans) national Criminal Law, University of Amsterdam; Valiant Richey, OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings; Tarana Baghirova, Associate Country Visit Officer at OSCE Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings; and Timea Nagy, survivor leader, small business owner, and global anti-trafficking activist.

Tom Keatinge discusses the difficulties for banks in “following the money” to human traffickers and slavers, and Professor Jill van Voorhout describes why AI may help provide an answer to these difficulties. Valient Richey and Tarana Baghirova explain the importance of public/private partnerships in disrupting slavery practices, and Timea Nagy describes one partnership in Canada that worked in partnership with survivor leaders.