Four Questions: Recent Developments Having an Impact on APAC

As the current regional anti-money laundering (AML) director-APAC at ACAMS, Caryn Leong serves as the lead English-speaking subject-matter expert (SME) practitioner in AML and financial crime compliance across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. She manages a small team of experts and engages in government, regulatory and...
Sam Cousins

Sam Cousins is a senior associate at ACAMS, where his work includes supporting public-private partnerships and strengthening ACAMS’ thought leadership pillar through the development of content on sanctions and risk, particularly the Sanctions Masterclass program and Global Monthly Update. Cousins’ work also focuses on countering...

The article titled “FinCEN’s AML and Terrorist Financing Priorities: An Introduction,” featured in the June-August 2022 edition of ACAMS Today,1 shared general thoughts, basic definitions and practical examples on each of the national anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) priorities. This was followed by...
Money Laundering Risk Study

Explicit customer acceptance policies and business development strategies embody financial institutions’ precise customer marketing capabilities, meticulous customer management capabilities and accurate money laundering risk management capabilities. To this end, this article puts forward the following suggestions based on the analysis of the risk and revenue...