Fynders Keepers

The Romans had a term for property that lost its owner. So did the Normans. Both systems concluded the same thing: when nobody is left to claim an asset, the state takes it.

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.


What is Fynders Keepers?

Hundreds of billions in lost financial assets are sitting unclaimed around the world. Dormant bank accounts, insurance policies, brokerage accounts, uncashed checks, forgotten estate assets. Money that was never collected because nobody knew it existed or where to find it. These unclaimed assets are collected and held by hundreds of governments and institutions across the world, waiting for someone to claim them.
Fynders Keepers brings together the leading unclaimed property experts and practitioners from law, finance, compliance, corporate restructuring, banking, asset tracing and claiming, genealogy research, international heir finding and wills & estates to share practical insights and real stories from the people doing the work.
Each episode features candid technical, and occasionally surprising conversations about the mechanics and challenges of locating and recovering lost assets, jurisdictional and cross border obstacles, ownership puzzles, the cases that took years, and the recoveries worth remembering.
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