Their cases include an estate with 120 heirs scattered mostly across Poland, a family who believed their uncle died with nothing and inherited $1.4 million, and two sisters separated in an orphanage as children whose estate is expected to exceed $8 million.

They join AssetFynd CMO Shaun Jackson to discuss what twelve years in this work teaches you, why trust is the hardest part of the job, and what they wish more people understood about their own finances.

Digital assets, where the basic question of who even counts as the holder is unsettled. Fraudulent account reporting, where well intentioned state guidance has proved very difficult to operationalise. And death as a dormancy trigger, where the difference between date of death and notice of death has broad consequences, and where whole industries that have never tracked mortality are about to have to.

Will leads the national unclaimed property practice at KPMG. He joins AssetFynd CMO Shaun Jackson to discuss all three, along with what actually triggers an audit, when voluntary disclosure is worth the effort, and where AI genuinely helps in regulated work.

Her advice to any company that suspects it has exposure comes in three parts. Do not panic. Do not wait. Do not go it alone.

Carla is co-founder and partner of UPCR and a past president of UPPO, with more than 25 years in unclaimed property compliance. She joins AssetFynd CMO Shaun Jackson to walk through how a risk assessment actually works, why voluntary disclosure beats waiting for a notice, and why compliance has to be a cross functional exercise rather than one department's problem.

To understand the problem properly he left a technology career and took a job on the reception desk of a funeral home.

He is now co-founder and CEO of Heirloom, a platform that removes the administrative burden of estate settlement from grieving families. He joins AssetFynd CMO Shaun Jackson to discuss what grief does to a person's capacity to handle paperwork, why so many assets are never found, and why probate, for all its difficulty, exists for a good reason.

As Will Nemirovsky puts it, they got to deliver good news twice.

Will is co-founder and CEO of Sparrow, a fintech platform returning unclaimed money to Americans, and a former Bitcoin startup operator who got into this after recovering nineteen dollars of his own. He joins AssetFynd CMO Shaun Jackson to discuss what automation unlocks in a manual industry, why inheritance claims are where the money matters most, and what it would take for lost money to stop being a category at all.

When Reclaim contacted him, he told them he already knew the money was real, that he had tried and failed, and that they were welcome to try. It took a year and a half. He was paid $225,000.

Ricky Maldonado is CEO and co-founder of Reclaim, a nationwide service helping people recover unclaimed money held by state agencies. He joins AssetFynd CMO Shaun Jackson to discuss why claims stall, what proof states actually require, and why the hardest part of the job is convincing people the money is real.

The exposure is far wider than exchanges. Stablecoins, tokenized deposits, tokenized securities, custodial and non-custodial wallets all fall inside the regime, and most of the institutions entering those business lines have unclaimed property nowhere near the top of the list.

Allen is co-founder and CEO of Eisen and a former Coinbase payments product manager. He joins AssetFynd CMO Shaun Jackson to map where digital asset dormancy is heading, why forcing custodians to liquidate crypto creates risk nobody has priced, and what happens when a three year dormancy clock meets an asset class that reinvents itself every eighteen months.

The exposure rarely appears on the books, because writing uncashed checks and credit balances off to income has been standard practice at many companies for decades. The liability does not disappear with the entry. For public companies it can sit inside the financial statements as an undisclosed loss contingency, and in an acquisition it transfers straight to the buyer.

Samantha has spent over 30 years in unclaimed property compliance. She is a certified fraud examiner, founder of the Petersen Group, and a former KPMG practice leader. She joins AssetFynd CMO Shaun Jackson to explain where the exposure hides and what to do when a state comes looking.

When a company collapses, most attention goes to debt and restructuring. The other half of the job is finding what the company actually owns, which is rarely what the balance sheet says. Records are scattered across jurisdictions, the people who understood the business have often fled, and in fraud driven cases the money is gone before the liquidator arrives.

Margot has spent 25 years in cross border insolvency, asset tracing and recovery, much of it working with offshore structures whose real operations sit anywhere but where they are registered. She joins AssetFynd CMO Shaun Jackson to walk through how an insolvency estate is rebuilt from the clues that remain.

Those doctrines, bona vacantia and escheat, are still running today. They now govern dormant bank accounts, forgotten brokerage holdings, and increasingly, digital assets.

Tom Lowe KC joins AssetFynd CMO Shaun Jackson for the opening episode of Fynders Keepers to trace the line from feudal tenure to modern unclaimed property law, and to explain why a doctrine built for ownerless land now applies to people who are alive, well, and simply not logging in.