{"id":79327,"date":"2025-06-18T14:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/hot-money-podcast-agent-of-chaos-ft-shorts\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T14:47:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:47:22","slug":"hot-money-podcast-agent-of-chaos-ft-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/hot-money-podcast-agent-of-chaos-ft-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Money Podcast: Agent of Chaos | FT #shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Money, the award-winning podcast series from the Financial Times and Pushkin Industries, is back with a third season.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, <!--more--> the Financial Times exposed a \u20ac2bn fraud at Wirecard, a high-flying German fintech. Many thought that was the end of the story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But for FT reporter Sam Jones, it was just the beginning. This season on Hot Money: Agent of Chaos, Sam investigates Wirecard\u2019s chief operating officer who vanished just as Wirecard collapsed \u2014 and who turned out to also be a Russian spy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From an Ibizan sting operation to an attempted takeover of the Austrian intelligence service, his reporting spirals into a world of warlords, espionage and disinformation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All in an attempt to answer two questions: who is the real Jan Marsalek? And what does his secret life reveal about the powerful forces he serves?<\/p>\n<p>New episodes of the eight-part season will drop every Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>#wirecard #bribe #investgation #espionage #janmarsalek #undercover #austria #vienna #fintech #russianspy #warlord #disinformation #europe #us #shortsvideo #shortfeed #shorts #shortsviral #shortsyoutube #shortsvideos<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Enjoying FT content? Get a daily slice of the very best FT journalism with FT Edit. Free for 30 days then just \u00a34.99 a month<\/p>\n<p>See if you get the FT for free as a student (<a href=\"http:\/\/ft.com\/schoolsarefree\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/ft.com\/schoolsarefree<\/a>) or start a \u00a31 trial: <a href=\"https:\/\/subs.ft.com\/spa3_trial?segmentId=3d4ba81b-96bb-cef0-9ece-29efd6ef2132.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/subs.ft.com\/spa3_trial?segmentId=3d4ba81b-96bb-cef0-9ece-29efd6ef2132.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Check out our Community tab for more stories: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>@FinancialTimes\/community<br \/>\n\u25ba  Listen to our podcasts: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/podcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.ft.com\/podcasts<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba  Follow us on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/financialtimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/financialtimes<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba  Follow us on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/<\/a>@financialtimes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Money, the award-winning podcast series from the Financial Times and Pushkin Industries, is back with a third season. In 2020,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}