
When Fraud Crosses Borders and Data Doesn't: International Financial Information Sharing — with Nick Maxwell
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.

