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Bribe, Swindle or Steal

Alexandra Wrage, president of TRACE, interviews luminaries in the field of financial crime, including bribery, fraud, money-laundering, insider trading and sanctions. Each week, Alexandra and her guests will discuss who commits "white collar crime", how it works and what is being done to stop it.

Brass Tacks: Would You Call the Government to Make a Disclosure Today? If So, Why?

41 mins; April 01, 2026

Where's the Cavalry: Global Anti-Corruption Efforts

26 mins; March 25, 2026

The New Corporation: How Good Corporations are Bad for Democracy

34 mins; March 18, 2026

Surviving a Sapin II Compliance Audit

25 mins; March 11, 2026

"When McKinsey Comes to Town"

28 mins; March 04, 2026

Oliver Bullough at the TRACE London Forum

31 mins; February 25, 2026

Doping at the Olympics

30 mins; February 18, 2026

The Corrupt Underbelly of Sport

22 mins; February 11, 2026

Corruption, Sanctions and Putin's War Regime

29 mins; February 04, 2026

Bill Browder at the TRACE London Forum

42 mins; January 28, 2026

Rugby, Amateur Sports and the Paris Olympics!

23 mins; January 21, 2026

FIFA's Red Card: Ken Bensinger

34 mins; January 14, 2026

DEI: Navigating the Semantic Minefield

32 mins; November 19, 2025

U.S.-Canada Relations: Undefended Border or Deepening Divide?

21 mins; October 29, 2025

Redrawing the Risk Map: Evolving Business Threats and Due Diligence in Uncertain Markets

27 mins; October 22, 2025

DOJ's FCPA Docket: What's Been Closed, What Continues and What Might That Tell Us for the Next Several Years?

21 mins; October 01, 2025

Corruption, Sanctions and Putin's War Regime

29 mins; September 03, 2025

"Why They Do It"

26 mins; August 27, 2025

Effective Compliance Training

17 mins; August 20, 2025

DEI Progress and Setbacks: What Compliance Professionals Need to Know

34 mins; August 13, 2025

How Companies Get Caught

31 mins; August 06, 2025

The Unaoil Story

25 mins; July 30, 2025

Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World

26 mins; July 23, 2025

Diana Henriques on Reputation Laundering

19 mins; July 09, 2025

Promoting Facts and Countering Disinformation

17 mins; June 25, 2025

Encouraging and Protecting Whistleblowers

25 mins; June 18, 2025

Daphne Caruana Galizia: Her Work, Her Murder and the Chance for Justice

20 mins; June 04, 2025

Collaborative Investigative Journalism Without Borders

32 mins; May 28, 2025

Maria Ressa on Holding the Line

27 mins; May 14, 2025

How Corruption Undermines Elections

16 mins; May 07, 2025

Shattered Families, a Refugee Crisis and the United States' Diminished Reputation as a Beacon to Newcomers

26 mins; April 30, 2025

A Syrian-Libyan Human Smuggling Scheme

25 mins; March 12, 2025

"Rigged: America, Russia and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference"

22 mins; March 05, 2025

FCPA Year in Review (2024)

43 mins; February 12, 2025

Trump Hotel - Baku: Adam Davidson

38 mins; February 05, 2025

"White House Inc.: How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency Into a Business" (Last Time)

26 mins; January 29, 2025

Understanding Trump's Executive Order on the Civil Service (It's Much More Serious Than It Sounds)

19 mins; January 22, 2025

Governance in Space

25 mins; January 15, 2025

Navigating the Greenlash: Can boards still lead on climate change?"

30 mins; January 08, 2025

Our Favorite Wine Fraudster

37 mins; December 18, 2024

The DOJ's New Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program

28 mins; December 11, 2024

Profiting From Human Rights Atrocities in Syrian Prisons

43 mins; December 09, 2024

An International ATM Skimming Scheme

23 mins; December 04, 2024

Extreme Wealth – Episode 8: Walt Pavlo and the Empty Temptations of Fraud

31 mins; November 20, 2024

Hockey Canada's Governance Review

31 mins; November 13, 2024

Extreme Wealth – Episode 7: Chuck Collins and the Burdens of Dynastic Wealth

26 mins; November 06, 2024

Extreme Wealth – Episode 6: Jonathan Rugman and the Stunning Power Plays of MBS

47 mins; October 30, 2024

Extreme Wealth – Episode 5: Paul Schervish and the Spiritual Duality of Riches

30 mins; October 23, 2024

Extreme Wealth - Episode 4: Bill Browder and the Pitiless Greed of Vladimir Putin

35 mins; October 16, 2024

Extreme Wealth – Episode 3: Jennifer Risher and the Limits of Sudden Wealth

36 mins; October 09, 2024

Extreme Wealth – Episode 2: Steve Fishman Inside the Mind of Prisoner Bernie Madoff

38 mins; October 02, 2024

Extreme Wealth – Episode 1: Clay Cockrell and the Champagne Problems of the 1%

34 mins; September 25, 2024

The Sentencing of Roger Stone

22 mins; September 18, 2024

Primer on Money-Laundering

35 mins; September 11, 2024

"Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us"

21 mins; September 04, 2024

How Local News Uncovers Local Fraud

15 mins; August 28, 2024

The U.S. College Admissions Scandal: Jonathan Turner

31 mins; August 21, 2024

Anand Mangnale on the Risks of Investigative Journalism

20 mins; August 14, 2024

The Corrupt Underbelly of Sport

22 mins; August 07, 2024

Doping in International Sports

32 mins; July 30, 2024

A Syrian-Libyan Human Smuggling Scheme

25 mins; July 10, 2024

Addressing Doping in Sport: Paul Massaro

17 mins; June 26, 2024

The Death of Sergei Magnitsky

29 mins; June 19, 2024

"Thing Are Worse than We Know"

28 mins; June 12, 2024

Canada's First Bribery Acquittal

15 mins; June 05, 2024

Serenading Despots

24 mins; May 29, 2024

Investment Funds: Massive Transparency Loopholes

28 mins; May 22, 2024

A Glimpse Inside Bhutan

15 mins; May 01, 2024

Whistleblower Protections

26 mins; April 24, 2024

Former Enforcement Officials Reflect on the Last Decade of Anti-Bribery Enforcement and its Future

44 mins; April 17, 2024

Mark Pieth on the Global Gold Trade

25 mins; April 10, 2024

Sam Bankman-Fried: Crypto's Madoff?

22 mins; April 03, 2024

Self-Reporting and Cooperation: The DOJ's New Incentives and Expectations

35 mins; March 27, 2024

News from the European Union, including the CSDDD

22 mins; March 20, 2024

Flags of Convenience

24 mins; March 13, 2024

Russian Sanctions: Impact and Due Diligence

29 mins; March 06, 2024

How Corruption Undermines Elections

16 mins; March 06, 2024

"Spin Dictators"

24 mins; February 28, 2024

Enablers and the Dark Fleet of Oil Tankers

26 mins; February 21, 2024

Leonid Volkov, Alexei Navalny's Chief of Staff

24 mins; February 16, 2024

Buying Fakes: Valerie Salembier

25 mins; February 07, 2024

"The Tinder Swindler"

15 mins; January 31, 2024

Addressing the Demand-Side of Bribery at Last: FEPA

20 mins; January 24, 2024

Transparency International's New Chair: François Valérian

23 mins; January 17, 2024

2023 FCPA Year in Review

43 mins; January 10, 2024

Sam Bankman-Fried: Crypto's Madoff?

22 mins; January 03, 2024

China's Clandestine Police Stations

24 mins; January 03, 2024

The Panama Papers: Six Years Later

19 mins; January 03, 2024

"Iceland's Secret: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con"

27 mins; January 03, 2024

Pegasus and Compliance in the Age of Cyber Intelligence

24 mins; January 03, 2024

"When McKinsey Comes to Town"

28 mins; December 27, 2023

"White Collar Crime Explained"

25 mins; December 20, 2023

Repression Across Borders

21 mins; December 13, 2023

The Lockheed Bribery Scandal that Prompted the FCPA

19 mins; December 06, 2023

Contagious Dishonesty

26 mins; November 29, 2023

Maria Ressa on Holding the Line

27 mins; November 22, 2023

A Review of the Global Anti-Corruption News

36 mins; November 15, 2023

Menendez Corruption Allegations – Round Two

29 mins; November 08, 2023

The Death of Sergei Magnitsky: Bill Browder

29 mins; November 01, 2023

The DOJ's Revised Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs

28 mins; October 25, 2023

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