vGlobal 2021 Videos

This video presentation will show you how to go about recovering virtual assets. Speakers: Aidan Larkin (Asset Reality), Daniel Coyle (Sequor Law), Syedur Rahman (Rahman Ravelli)

This video discusses how to investigate crypto. Speakers: Daniel Burget (BDO USA), Ethan McMahon (Chainalysis), Nick Furneaux (CSITech)

This video presentation looks at trends and developments in the crypto industry, particularly regarding financial crime. Presented by Ethan McMahon (Chainalysis).

This video looks at whether crypto is the future of money or a vehicle for fraud on a scale that's unprecedented in the history of finance. Speaker: Gregory Coleman (Coleman Worldwide Advisors LLC)

In this video, leading international fraud and value recovery attorneys take questions and discuss emerging and dominant issues that impact one's ability to be successful and effective. This session was intended to be informal and interactive and represented an opportunity for the audience to have their questions answered by experts who have 'been there, seen it, done it'. Speakers: Martin Kenney (Martin Kenney & Co. Solicitors), Sebastian Said (Appleby), William Kraus (Butzel Long), Yves Klein (Monfrini Bitton Klein)

In this video, leading international fraud and value recovery attorneys take questions and discuss emerging and dominant issues that impact one's ability to be successful and effective. This session was intended to be informal and interactive and represented an opportunity for the audience to have their questions answered by experts who have 'been there, seen it, done it'. Speakers: Danny Ong (Rajah & Tann), Greg Grossman (Sequor Law), Henrique Forssell (Duarte Forssell Advogados), Rebecca Hume (Gateley Legal)

This video presentation introduces some of the primary online databases that are useful in identifying assets for companies and individuals globally. Included is a discussion about public and private corporate disclosures, land registries, litigation and procurement records, as well as more creative tools such as construction and fire permits, satellite imagery, leaked and breached data and people search engines. Most of this data is free, but accessing it can sometimes be challenging due to technical, geographical and language barriers or sheer volume. The presentation will also show you how to build your own tools to access these records or, alternatively, buy ready-made commercial solutions that do it for you. Throughout, the presenter will include several examples from real cases, illustrating a wide array of tools, techniques and skills required for asset tracing. Presented by Cristopher Uglea (FTI Consulting).

In this video, litigation funders discuss trends and developments in the industry and offer tips on how to get your claim funded. Barry Kamar (Westfleet Advisors), David Kerstein (Validity Finance), Paul Neufeld (Locke Lord), Wendie Childress (Validity Finance).

In this video, British firm ZENRS demonstrates its international investigative tool. Speakers: Connor Allen (ZENRS), Kevin Weekes (ZENRS)

In this video, Ross Higgins talks through a variety of open source tools used by Bellingcat in a range of investigations, with a particular focus on financial investigations. He will also provide advice on the best ways to gather OSINT online. Speaker: Ross Higgins (Bellingcat)

This video will show you how to use and map data to enhance your investigations into serious financial crime. Presenters: Antonina Volkotrub (Anti-Corruption Action Centre), David Thompson (Altana AI), Thomas Ewing (C4ADS)

Learn how to access critical third party and legal risk data across 100+ jurisdictions with automatic translation into 14 languages in minutes and with one simplified search. With the world's largest collections of legal information located on one service, connected by 440 million relationships, it has never been easier to search 120 million legal documents, including exclusive Caribbean and offshore content. Take this guided tour of the vLex platform and learn about vLex's unparalleled coverage, technology, and why over 2 million worldwide have joined vLex. Speakers: Natalie Milman (vLex), Susan Cunningham (vLex)

In this video, two investigative journalists in Switzerland discuss Swiss banking's involvement with financial crime, both historically and currently, the effect of criminal investigations in the United States, and the role and attitude of the Swiss judicial system in clamping down on financial crime. Speakers: François Pilet (Gotham City), Sylvain Besson (Tamedia)

In this video, GreyList Trace's Rebecca Hodson interviews the company's three founders: Bob Duffield, John Rawson and Nigel Nicholson.

Opening remarks by OffshoreAlert Editor David Marchant at OffshoreAlert vGlobal 2021 which took place on December 6-10, 2021.

This video examines how bad actors and hostile intelligence gatherers can exploit your online visibility to target your workforce and turn them into human intelligence sources. This is what is commonly referred to as cresting the Insider Threat. We will look at hostile methodology through an offensive lens and how you can mitigate against it. Speaker: Kevin Weekes (ZENRS)

This video presentation goes beyond clichés, stereotypes, and hyperbole and discusses what actually goes on inside offshore financial centers and whether it's different to what's reported by the global media. Adam Crane (Baker & Partners), Burke Files (FE&E), Julian Morris (Reason Foundation)

In this video, IRS senior representatives discuss the Agency's offshore tax enforcement initiatives, past, present, and future. Speakers: Damon Rowe (Internal Revenue Service), Jason Bell (Internal Revenue Service), Mark Daly (Department of Justice)

It's fair to say that the offshore corporate services industry feels aggrieved by the work of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. In this video, two representatives of the ICIJ and two offshore representatives will discuss projects such as the 'Panama Papers', 'Paradise Papers', and 'Pandora Papers' and, in particular, whether offshore finance is being treated fairly or unfairly.