The text is a transcript of "Compliance Time", podcast hosted by Denitsa Blagova.

How does the interplay between tone, language, and content in this podcast shape listeners’ perceptions and engagement with the subject matter?

Podcast: Compliance Time

*The following text is a transcript of part of a podcast, $\underline{{Compliance\ Time}}$, hosted by Denitsa Blagova.*

In this podcast series, you can hear from compliance experts and enthusiasts who are creators in this space and are contributing to the fast-moving and dynamic field of financial compliance. Hear their views on new trends in AML$_{(1)}$, sanctions and fraud.


[00:04:52]\
**Denitsa**: Amazing. And this is the first episode of the FinCrime Investigator series, right? I already listened to it, so everyone who wants to get more details can find it in the first episode about the scheme that the $\text{\textquotedblleft}$Biker Gang” had.

[00:05:10]\
**Jennifer**: Yes, $\text{\textquotedblleft}$The Case of the Shady Shack”

[00:05:14]\
**Denitsa**: Oh, yeah, I listened to all of the episodes on the FinCrime Investigator, and they're really amazing, but can you tell us how it all started. How did you come up with the YouTube series?

[00:05:27]\
**Jennifer**: Yeah, sure. So I think you know, I love what I do. People say, $\text{\textquotedblleft}$Oh, you come across very passionate.” But what do you do when you want to share why you think something is so cool with people but you find educational videos really flat and boring... So I thought, this is my chance to flex my creative muscle... um... it's not something I get to do every day in a compliance role, but I really love film Noir and that era of the amazing $\text{\textquotedblleft}$Private eye” movies from that time so this is my tribute to that, and it's a chance to share what I do with everybody in a, hopefully, a fun and creative way.

[00:06:02]\
**Denitsa**: Amazing, yeah. The series are very well made and interesting to follow because it's like a story, but I will not spoil for everyone who is about to watch them.
Okay, so, and the whole series have rotated around this investigator. And, what would you say describes the good FinCrime investigators? What makes them different from the crowd?

[00:06:33]\
**Jennifer**: Sure, so... I think certainly people in this field come from two different areas. So we see people coming from, you know, ex-law enforcement, as well as from, perhaps, the financial sectors. So, working for a bank or something that's fintech or crypto exchange, something like that, but really what drives us is the desire to solve a puzzle and we're often skeptical people, so we tend to love asking questions... we want to know what happened, how the person did it and ultimately WHY. And, you know, we hear law enforcement talk about modus operandi and what $\text{\textquotedblleft}$drives” somebody to commit a crime. Really, once you can figure that out, you can then start to predict the pattern of what's going on. It's often very hard to figure out, but I think people in this field are not afraid to ask direct questions or to look deeper and to do whatever is necessary in a file to figure out what transpired.

[00:07:31]\
**Denitsa**: Yes, I agree with you. I love asking questions like trying to find the connection. I think this is also something that really makes a good investigator. It's someone who looks for these connections, right?

[00:07:48]\
**Jennifer**: Exactly, and I think I remember, years ago hearing the term $\text{\textquotedblleft}$dumpster diver.” And you hear scammers doing this,  where they go into a garbage dumpster, and they'll pull out... they know, that the person they're focused on has thrown out documents, and so they'll actually go into the garbage bin or the garbage dumpster to fish them out. But you know, there are private investigators out there that are paid to put back together bags of shredded documents. To try and figure out.. so this... you're not in this field if you're going to glaze over. You need to be quite detail-oriented and really want to pursue something until you find out, and you solve that puzzle.


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$\footnotesize{\textrm{Note:
{(1)} AML: anti-money laundering}}$


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How does the interplay between tone, language, and content in this podcast shape listeners' perceptions and engagement with the subject matter? 


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Podcast: Compliance Time

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