Opinions My Own: Risk, FinTech and the Law

Paul Caulfield & Zila Acosta-Grimes
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“The following opinions are my own.” It's an oft-used phrase when experts speak publicly about matters - financial crimes, cybersecurity, technology and the law - smack in their wheelhouse. We’re after these insights as we delve deep into these topics on a global scale... for the sole purpose that education drives performance. Creators & Hosts: Paul Caulfield, Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School; Partner and Practice Head, Financial Regulation, & Cybersecurity, Ruddy Gregory, PLLC; Zila Acosta-Grimes, Counsel, Linklaters Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law

  1. 21 APR

    #15: China & Our Information: Cut & Run...or Stick & Move?

    The very idea that any industrialized nation or multi-national company can live without the United States or China as a key economic partner or commercial driver is a false narrative. This includes the Unites States with China, vice versa and their own multi-nationals. The true narrative, and the one we delve into, is how such nation and companies operate more securely with and within China – protecting their own people, goods, inventions and processes, beginning with their data. Enter Sherman Deng, Cybersecurity and Privacy Partner at Fangda Partners, one of China’s elite “Red Circle” law firms. In this episode, Sherman and Paul discuss Sherman's transition back to Shanghai after studying in the United States and working as Senior Counsel for Marriott International. They analyze the commonly adopted strategy of “hiving off” one China operations, and is this the only option?, working within China’s Great Firewall, considerations when working with sensitive data, and practices to demonstrate credible information security – particularly when a breach occurs and a senior executive is “invited to a cup of tea” by China authorities. Please follow us here, Apple and YouTube. Thank you for listening.

    56 min

  2. 19 MAR

    #14: Cover Your Crypto Ass...ets

    Lili Infante spent 11 years as a Special Agent in the DEA. She specialized in digital assets....cryptocurrencies, honing her craft in asset recovery. Lili finds digital wallets, pass phrases and private keys in petabytes of data. Now in private practice with CAT Labs, Lili and her team have raised nearly $10 million, which is helping them help the federal government recover millions in seized crypto assets. She's not stopping there as the team now looks to offer digital asset recovery technology to the private sector - law firms, forensic agencies and citizens at large who may have that critical need to find....or recover...the key to their crypto stockpiles. This is her story - from Russia, to the DEA where she became the go-to agent for crypto investigations to the private sector and CAT Labs. Lili has hard takes on the criminal use of crypto, the inextricable link of the technology with cyber security and our own national security interests and how this moment in time brings her life's work, finally, to the forefront of commerce and national security.

    1h 2m

  3. 23 JAN

    Short: Is Breaking Up (With AI) Easy To Do? It Should Be.

    For the entire episode on emotionally intelligent AI characters and the dangers they pose, please go to OPINIONS MY OWN: Risk, FinTech & the Law, on: YouTube, Spotify or Apple. Thank you for listening.

    5 min

  4. 23 JAN

    #13: Do Children Dream of Electric Hugs?

    Emotional. Intelligent. Artificial. In Philip K. Dick's 1968 science fiction novella, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, empathy tests separate man from droid in 2021. But the tests have become easier to pass, androids demonstrating characteristics indistinguishable from humans. Today, in real life, boys, girls and emotionally at risk adults are developing relationships with artificially intelligent characters online and in person. Serious risks abound. This episode, my interview with Dr. Raffaele Ciriello, Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems at the University of Sydney, is dedicated to the memory of Sewell Setzer III. Sewell was 14 when he took his life in early 2024 after developing a relationship with an emotionally intelligent chatbot. His story is a tragic one. Fiction has become reality. Here's what we can do about it. About Our Guest, Dr. Raffaele F. Ciriello: As a tenured Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems at The University of Sydney Business School, Dr. Ciriello specialize in compassionate digital innovation, focusing on decentralized governance and ethical/societal implications of emerging digital technologies (blockchain, web3, AI, social media). Dr. Ciriello is deeply committed to mentorship, having guided dozens of research students across several countries and actively contributed to the academic community as a reviewer and editor, recognized with teaching awards, Best AE Awards and as a Distinguished Member of the Association for Information Systems. Dr. Ciriello's research appears regularly in leading journals and conferences. He lives in Sydney with his wonderful wife and two mad scientists.

    1h 12m

  5. 09/12/2024

    #12: Solutions Only - The Terrorism of Pig Butchering

    "Pig, I will SLIT your throat. I will CONSUME you, tail to snout." The horrors of PIG BUTCHERING have yet to be fully appreciated. If they were, we’d be MOBILIZING. Like we did as a Nation after the Attack on Pearl Harbor. After 9/11. Like we did as a collective society, globally, during Covid. We’d be adopting and spreading technology. Like we did with Facebook. Like we are with Artificial Intelligence. ERIN WEST is done talking about the problem, the human trafficking, the slave labor camps, the torture, the financial terrorism and the mental anguish that is Pig Butchering. "We are at crisis level," she testified on Capitol Hill this September. If you - Social Media, Telecommunications and Financial Institutions - are not part of the SOLUTION, you are the problem. Join us as we dive into a solutions-focused episode of Opinions My Own: Risk, FinTech & the Law. They call us pigs, and they want to butcher us. For more information visit www.OperationShamrock.org and www.ChainAbuse.com. Thank you for listening. - Paul

    54 min

  6. 15/09/2024

    #11: Protecting Our Cyber Heartland

    Eugene Kowel and I met September 4, 2001, at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. Since we left, I’ve been in the private sector working in law, risk, financial crimes compliance and cybersecurity. Gene has been with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Join me as I speak with Gene about what led him from DANY to the FBI, including his time in Afghanistan and Iraq, why the FBI leans internationally to protect us domestically, his work on both our coasts in violent, drug and white collar crimes and now, celebrating his fourth year next month as Special Agent in Charge of the Omaha Field Office, and his remits of Nebraska and Iowa. This episode is special to me for a variety of reasons. First, it’s not just with a friend and someone I admire deeply, but with active law enforcement, a first for our podcast. Second, as the podcast has meant to do, we’ve covered another area - Heartland, U.S.A. - and what local, state and federal law enforcement are doing to protect our food, livestock and biofuels, including from a cyber arena and in close collaboration with the private sector and farming communities. Third, Gene and I recorded this last week, the 23rd anniversary of 9/11, which back then was just our second week of work at DANY. #neverforget #ifyouseesomethingsaysomething Thank you for listening. - Paul

    38 min

  7. 18/07/2024

    #10: Touring the Dark Web [WARNING]

    WARNING. Human trafficking, illegal guns & drugs, child pornography, stolen cryptocurrency, credit cards.... this is the marketplace. Insulin, need any? Sex dolls, want some? This is the place, and there are 4 and 5-star reviews for those selling. Crime-as-a-Service? This is where bitcoin mixers and contract killers mingle with expert cartels and lone wolves with novice computer skills in an un-indexed, haphazardly policed bizarre bazaar. Welcome to the Dark Web. Don't have the stomach? Head to Mos Eisley's Cantina. It's tamer. Much. This shit's real. In my hour long conversation with cybersecurity expert and professor Will Spettmann, we don't just discuss cybersecurity and cyber crimes, we stroll the streets of the seedy and lawless place everyone's heard about but few have seen. Here's what you need to know about what's going on right as we live and breathe and how to protect yourself. WARNING. CERTAIN SUBJECT MATERIAL IS UPSETTING.

    1h 1m

  8. 16/04/2024

    #9: Executive Cyber Resilience - With an Israel Defense Forces' CISO

    Scene One: Industry Conference Moderator: "What keeps you up at night?" CEO: Cybersecurity. Scene Two: Company conference room CISO: Well done, everyone. Great tabletop exercise. I discuss with the former CISO of the Israel Defense Forces, Gad Abadi, the root cause of Scenario One, so many CEOs' sleepless nights, and the glaring blind spot with Scenario Two, which overemphasizes the CISO, CIO and the technical SMEs but largely ignores the other C-Suite players and their teams critical to timely recovery, firm reputation and client servicing. Please enjoy, share and like. Find us also on YouTube. Thanks for listening. Paul Caulfield Guest: Gad Abadi, Lieutenant Colonel, former CISO, Israel Defense Forces Time: 48 minutes

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“The following opinions are my own.” It's an oft-used phrase when experts speak publicly about matters - financial crimes, cybersecurity, technology and the law - smack in their wheelhouse. We’re after these insights as we delve deep into these topics on a global scale... for the sole purpose that education drives performance. Creators & Hosts: Paul Caulfield, Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School; Partner and Practice Head, Financial Regulation, & Cybersecurity, Ruddy Gregory, PLLC; Zila Acosta-Grimes, Counsel, Linklaters Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law

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