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Cooking quality money laundering: A to aid AML professionals

Cooking quality money laundering: A recipe to aid AML professionals

September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
Welcome to the underground kitchen of elite money laundering. In this world, success is not measured in Michelin stars, but in clean and pleasing money...
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Digital wealth, physical harm: The rise of crypto kidnapping

Digital wealth, physical harm: The rise of crypto kidnapping

September 12, 2025September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
During the past year, there has been a dramatic increase in physical violence toward individuals within the crypto industry or associated with crypto wealth. This...
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Europe’s dirty secret: Waste trafficking in the EU

Europe’s dirty secret: Waste trafficking

September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
Just a short drive from the tourist streets of Naples, Italy, the soil bears witness to an unnatural death toll. The towns of Acerra, Nola...
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The evolving threat from within

The evolving threat from within

September 12, 2025September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
A recent briefing, ā€œThe Threat from Within: A Growing Concern,ā€ jointly published by ACAMS and Cifas, offered a framework for understanding the shifting landscape of...
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Oksana Ihnatenko: Fighting financial crime in Ukraine

Oksana Ihnatenko: Fighting financial crime in Ukraine

September 12, 2025September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
Oksana Ihnatenko, CAMS, is a managing director at the Center for Financial Integrity in Ukraine and a researcher for the Supervising and Monitoring Ukraine’s Reconstruction...
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Risks and romance: What the dating industry can learn from financial crimes compliance

Risks and romance: What the dating industry can learn from financial crimes compliance

September 12, 2025September 15, 2025 /Leave a comment
In the financial services industry, money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions regulations require financial institutions to implement governance frameworks for managing risks, accountability and public...
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The transparency imperative: The power of full disclosure in AML/CTF reviews

The transparency imperative: The power of full disclosure in AML/CTF reviews

September 12, 2025September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
Independent anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) and sanctions reviews required under the Bank Secrecy Act are more than compliance exercises. Their strategic value lies in their capacity to reveal vulnerabilities, affirm control effectiveness and validate governance. But their utility hinges on transparency. Financial institutions must treat...
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From planes to pizza: The new job hunt

From planes to pizza: The new job hunt

July 22, 2025July 22, 2025 /Leave a comment
ACAMS virtual seminar explores LE’s fight against financial crime

ACAMS virtual seminar explores LE’s fight against financial crime

July 1, 2025July 3, 2025 /Leave a comment
How the financial sector can better serve refugees and the displaced

How the financial sector can better serve refugees and the displaced

June 20, 2025June 20, 2025 /Leave a comment
The escalating issue of elder financial exploitation

The escalating issue of elder financial exploitation

June 11, 2025June 13, 2025 /Leave a comment
World Environment Day: A Chance to Reflect on Sustainable Development

World Environment Day: A Chance to Reflect on Sustainable Development

June 5, 2025June 4, 2025 /Leave a comment

Featured Column

AMLA’s work program and its enhanced oversight of CASPs

AMLA’s work program and its enhanced oversight of CASPs

August 29, 2025 /Leave a comment
The European Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) is officially in business. With a newly appointed chairperson, executive board and a 257-meter-high skyscraper in Frankfurt, it began laying foundations to become the key pillar of the EU’s fight against money laundering and terrorist financing. One of its...
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The influence of emerging technologies on cybersecurity audits

The influence of emerging technologies on cybersecurity audits

August 18, 2025 /Leave a comment
Beyond the exchange: Laundering crypto through luxury goods

Beyond the exchange: Laundering crypto through luxury goods

August 7, 2025 /Leave a comment
Financial Investigations and Confiscation in Fighting Crime

Financial Investigations and Confiscation in Fighting Crime

May 21, 2025 /Leave a comment
Transaction Monitoring: From ā€˜Follow the Money’ to AI-Driven Intelligence

Transaction Monitoring: From ā€˜Follow the Money’ to AI-Driven Intelligence

April 16, 2025 /1 Comment
Fraud as a Service: A Growing Threat in the EU-01

Fraud as a Service: A Growing Threat in the EU

April 1, 2025April 1, 2025 /Leave a comment

Interviews

Oksana Ihnatenko: Fighting financial crime in Ukraine

Oksana Ihnatenko: Fighting financial crime in Ukraine

September 12, 2025September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
Oksana Ihnatenko, CAMS, is a managing director at the Center for Financial Integrity in Ukraine and a researcher for the Supervising and Monitoring Ukraine’s Reconstruction Funds project at the Centre for Finance and Security at the Royal United Services Institute. Her research focuses on Ukraine’s...
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Jessica Sunkamaneevongse: Successfully adapting to change

Jessica Sunkamaneevongse: Successfully adapting to change

September 12, 2025September 16, 2025 /Leave a comment
Malaika Oringo

Malaika Oringo: Empowering and supporting human-trafficking survivors

July 29, 2025July 29, 2025 /Leave a comment

In Focus

Terrorist financing since 911 How the threat and the response have evolved

Terrorist financing since 9/11: How the threat and the response have evolved

September 10, 2025September 10, 2025 /Leave a comment
As we pause to remember the tragic events of September 11, 2001 (9/11), we are reminded that 9/11 has forever changed how the world combats terrorist financing. The 9/11 attacks triggered a revolution in the financial surveillance landscape, forcing governments and institutions to rethink the...
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Leveraging national security priorities for an enhanced counter-fraud response

Leveraging national security priorities for an enhanced counter-fraud response

July 30, 2025August 13, 2025 /Leave a comment
When secrets become currency: A deep dive into insider trading

When secrets become currency: A deep dive into insider trading

July 11, 2025 /Leave a comment

Digital Dose

Renata Furst Galvao

Fighting identity theft and the financial exploitation of children, with Renata Furst Galvão

September 2, 2025September 2, 2025 /Leave a comment
In this episode of "Financial Crime Matters," Kieran talks with Renata Furst GalvĆ£o about identity theft, focusing on the theft of children’s identities for financial exploitation. Furst Galvӑo recounts the theft of her own identity as a six-year-old child and the tremendous burden it placed...
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Uncovering Links to Chinese Underground Laundering and More:LatAm Conference Special with John Tobon

Uncovering links to Chinese underground laundering and more, with John Tobon

September 2, 2025 /Leave a comment
Sarah Brimbeuft

Fighting corruption at home and abroad, with TI France’s Sara Brimbeuf

July 9, 2025August 1, 2025 /Leave a comment

World Digest

Europe’s dirty secret: Waste trafficking in the EU

Europe’s dirty secret: Waste trafficking

September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
Just a short drive from the tourist streets of Naples, Italy, the soil bears witness to an unnatural death toll. The towns of Acerra, Nola and Marigliano, once idyllic rural communities, have earned the grim epithet of ā€œthe Triangle of Death.ā€ This lethal zone created...
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Fentanyl: Tracing the deadly money trail

Fentanyl: Tracing the deadly money trail

September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
AML enforcement A shift in Brazil’s luxury

AML enforcement: A shift in Brazil’s luxury

August 21, 2025 /Leave a comment

Member Spotlight

Jane Bell, CAMS, CGSS—North Carolina, USA

Jane Bell, CAMS, CGSS—North Carolina, USA

September 12, 2025September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
Jane Bell joined SAS as an industry consultant in the Risk, Fraud and Compliance Solutions practice in 2023 after working in the banking industry for 20 years, including 15 years of direct experience in front-line anti-money laundering and fraud detection as a subject-matter expert in...
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Jinisha Bhatt, CAMS—Ontario, Canada

Jinisha Bhatt, CAMS—Ontario, Canada

September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
Ilia Kolochenko, CAMS-FCI, CAMS-Audit, CAMS-RM—Genolier, Switzerland

Ilia Kolochenko, CAMS-FCI, CAMS-Audit, CAMS-RM—Genolier, Switzerland

September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment

Know Your Chapter

ACAMS Mexico Chapter

ACAMS Mexico Chapter: New ACAMS chapter launched in Mexico

September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
On June 25, 2025, members of Mexico’s anti-financial crime (AFC) community attended the launch of the ACAMS Mexico Chapter―the most recent addition to ACAMS’ global network of more than 60 chapters. The goal of the ACAMS Mexico Chapter, which is the second chapter in Latin...
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ACAMS’ newest chapter: The ACAMS Cayman Islands Chapter

ACAMS Cayman Islands Chapter: ACAMS’ newest chapter—The ACAMS Cayman Islands Chapter

September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
ACAMS Pittsburgh Chapter: Amber Korowicki: Respect, honesty and passion

ACAMS Pittsburgh Chapter: Amber Korowicki—Respect, honesty and passion

September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment

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