Clear briefings for regulated business life.
The Linklaters Podcast is a broad professional briefing feed covering financial regulation, competition, foreign investment, anti-money laundering, workplace performance, and women in sport. Episodes move between structured legal updates and conversational business-skills interviews, with a steady focus on how rules and institutions affect organisations.
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The Linklaters Podcast is a professional briefing feed shaped around law, regulation, markets, organisational behaviour, and sport. It is not a personality-led chat show. Its centre of gravity is expertise. Recent episodes cover the FCA’s priorities for payments and e-money firms, including the move from older portfolio letters to annual regulatory priority reports. Other episodes examine the new European anti-money laundering framework, with attention to AMLA’s direct supervision, investigation powers, on-site inspections, administrative measures, and sanctions. The EU single AML rulebook gets similarly close treatment, including politically exposed persons, high-risk countries, enhanced due diligence, senior management approval, and correspondent banking. The style is structured and careful. Questions are used to move from policy text to practical implications for boards, legal teams, compliance teams, and investors. The feed also tracks competition and foreign investment themes, including cartel investigations, digital markets, consumer protection, labour-market competition, merger control, and Spain’s foreign investment screening regime. Its business-skills strand has a different texture. Ideas Foundry episodes bring in guests to discuss how people work together inside modern organisations, from neuroscience and cognitive breaks to storytelling, engagement, authenticity, and influence. These episodes are more conversational, but still oriented toward usefulness. WINS adds a sport dimension, with discussion of women in sport, sustainability, Motorsport UK, and the emotional connection people have to sport. The result is a wide but coherent show for people operating in regulated, cross-border, or institution-heavy environments. It assumes the listener is comfortable with acronyms, policy shifts, and technical detail. It also recognises that business performance is not only a matter of rules. Attention, communication, sustainability, and sport all appear as part of the same operating landscape. The Linklaters Podcast stands out by keeping those strands in one place: financial regulation next to workplace neuroscience, AML enforcement next to women in sport, and foreign investment screening next to leadership storytelling.
Made for: For lawyers, compliance professionals, executives, investors, policy watchers, and business leaders who need practical context on regulation, enforcement, governance, and organisational performance.
What sets it apart: It combines technical legal briefings with business-skills and women-in-sport conversations, giving the feed a wider operating view than a single-practice legal update show.
Linklaters is a leading global law firm, supporting and investing in the future of our clients wherever they do business. We combine legal expertise with a collaborative and innovative approach to help clients navigate constantly evolving markets and regulatory environments, pursuing opportunities and managing risk worldwide.Disclaimer: Podcasts are not legal advice and the views expressed in this podcast are not the views of Linklaters LLP.
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Rivalry panic with tactical receipts.
Ian Rodwell hosts Jane Booth and Alyssa Monick from Guildhall School to discuss how leadership skills from the performing arts, like agility and listening, apply to business.
Tom Cobart and James Marlowe of Linklaters explain the scope and timing of the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
Linklaters lawyers Duncan Campbell, Doug Davison, and David Thomas examine AI-washing, the practice of making exaggerated or misleading claims about AI use.
Constance Shulock, an LSE professor and former Boston Consulting Group training manager in Hong Kong, explains that influencing your boss starts with building expert power and referent power with that individual.
The FCA replaces ad hoc portfolio letters with annual regulatory priority reports for payments firms, emphasizing key supervisory areas for 2026.
Neuroscientist Amy Brand discusses how understanding brain networks can improve productivity and breaks in the workplace.
This episode explores the investigative and sanctioning powers of the new European Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) under the EU AML package.
This episode explores specific risk-based measures in the new EU anti-money laundering single rulebook, focusing on politically exposed persons, high-risk third countries, and correspondent banking relationships.
Ian Rodwell interviews Alison Stewart-Allen about the importance of storytelling in leadership to engage and inspire people.
The Linklaters Podcast’s Summer Outlook 2025 // AFIG examines global enforcement across cartels, digital competition, labor markets, consumer protection, and merger control.
Linklaters' 2025 outlook identifies 383 leniency applications in 2023 as evidence of renewed cartel-detection activity after the 2020 slump.
Jess Runnickles, Head of Sustainability at Motorsport UK, discusses her personal connection to motorsport and the intersection of sustainability and sport.
An interview with the Deputy Head of Unit for Foreign Investments discussing the practical application of the Spanish foreign investment screening regime introduced in 2020.
Grace Ahrens shares her personal journey back into soccer, from growing up in Mexico to becoming Executive Director of Women in Soccer.
Linklater's Antitrust and Foreign Investment Legal Outlook 2025 discusses expected shifts in competition law, merger control, and regulatory enforcement driven by national security, growth priorities, and geopolitical changes.