Waters Wavelength Ep. 342: LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Sophie Lagouanelle

- By Wei-Shen Wong and Anthony Malakian
- 09 Dec 2025

Wei-Shen Wong, Asia editor, and Anthony Malakian, editor-in-chief of WatersTechnology, record a weekly podcast touching on the biggest stories in financial technology.

Waters Wavelength Podcast · Episode 342: LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Sophie Lagouanelle

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This week’s guest is Sophie Lagouanelle, vice president of product for financial crime compliance at LexisNexis Risk Solutions

0:00 – Tony and Shen talk about their Spotify 2025 Wrapped

5:00 – Sophie joins and reflects on the state of financial crime

14:00 – Volume and speed

17:30 – AI and ML’s role

25:30 – Changes within compliance teams

30:00 – Focus areas for regulators

40:30 – Shared memory

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Wei-Shen Wong: + 852 3411 4758; wei-shen.wong@infopro-digital.com

Anthony Malakian: + 1 646 490 3973; anthony.malakian@infopro-digital.com

Past 10 episodes:

Episode 341: Citi’s Pitts and Topa

Episode 340: The sad state of journalism

Episode 339: Northern Trust Asset Management’s Jan Rohof

Episode 338: BBH’s Mike McGovern

Episode 337: Interop.io’s Bob Myers

Episode 336: Tokenization mania

Episode 335: Some tech talk...kinda

Episode 334: BofA’s Krishnan and McInnes

Episode 333: Baseball, analytics, and therapy

Episode 332: DTCC’s Val Wotton

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