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The World Cup: A magnet for financial crime

The World Cup: A magnet for financial crime

December 10, 2025 /Leave a comment
When the FIFA World Cup starts, the world comes together in celebration. However, while fans are focused on the games, criminal networks see an opportunity....
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From harmless wagers to global crime in sports betting

From harmless wagers to global crime in sports betting

December 10, 2025 /Leave a comment
Placing bets in crypto on the amount of warnings (or “yellow cards”) given out in a third Estonian football league match on obscure betting platforms...
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ACAMS celebrates AFC professionals with ACAMS Awards

ACAMS celebrates AFC professionals with ACAMS Awards

December 10, 2025December 11, 2025 /Leave a comment
In September at ACAMS’ The Assembly Las Vegas at the Aria Resort and Casino, three members and one ACAMS chapter were honored for their accomplishments...
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AML/AFC trends in 2025 and emerging topics for 2026

AML/AFC trends in 2025 and emerging topics for 2026

December 10, 2025 /Leave a comment
Financial crime risks are evolving faster than the frameworks designed to counter them, and in 2025, institutions around the world faced a critical inflection point....
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The end of the “de minimis” exemption: Strengthening U.S. trade controls

The end of the “de minimis” exemption: Strengthening U.S. trade controls

December 10, 2025 /Leave a comment
In August 2025, the U.S. formally ended its long-standing duty-free exemption for low-value imports, called “de minimis.” This represented a policy shift that marked one...
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Fraud trends in 2026: What to expect

Fraud trends in 2026: What to expect

December 10, 2025December 10, 2025 /Leave a comment
Fraud continues to evolve quickly, challenging even the most prepared financial institutions. The FBI reported that in 2024 alone, Americans lost over $16.6 billion to...
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Internal audit: The gateway to career hot zones in AFC

Internal audit: The gateway to career hot zones in AFC

December 10, 2025December 10, 2025 /Leave a comment
The financial crime world is having its moment. On one side, there is a gravitational pull toward the bold new frontiers of financial crime prevention―crypto exchanges, fintech startups, banking as a service platforms and embedded finance ventures―where technology moves fast, acronyms multiply overnight and job...
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What Yogi Berra might have said about “spot-fixing,” Luis Ortiz and automated transaction monitoring

What Yogi Berra might have said about ‘spot-fixing,’ Luis Ortiz and automated transaction monitoring

November 12, 2025November 14, 2025 /Leave a comment
Internal audit: The AML career compass

Internal audit: The AML career compass

October 13, 2025October 31, 2025 /Leave a comment
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 /1 Comment
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

Featured Column

Virtual IBANs under scrutiny: Closing Europe’s digital banking loophole

Virtual IBANs under scrutiny: Closing Europe’s digital banking loophole

November 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
“Hi mum, I lost my phone. This is my new number.” That simple, familiar message was all it took to spark a wave of deception across Luxembourg in early 2023. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. The message came from a Luxembourg mobile number, written...
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Effective management of financial crime investigations

Effective management of financial crime investigations

October 3, 2025October 3, 2025 /Leave a comment
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 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

Interviews

Atsuo Takada: Globally connecting through The ACAMS Assemblies

Atsuo Takada: Globally connecting through The ACAMS Assemblies

December 10, 2025December 10, 2025 /Leave a comment
Atsuo Takada specializes in financial crime countermeasures, especially for anti-money laundering, product management from discovery to collaboration, as well as the implementation of fintech solutions. In addition, he oversees business planning and marketing. Takada has been engaged in business development centered on global package solutions...
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Samuel Cousins

Samuel Cousins: The importance of the Global Threats Report Survey

October 9, 2025October 14, 2025 /Leave a comment
Oksana Ihnatenko: Fighting financial crime in Ukraine

Oksana Ihnatenko: Fighting financial crime in Ukraine

September 12, 2025September 12, 2025 /2 Comments

In Focus

Advice from a veteran and AFC professional

Advice from a veteran and AFC professional

November 11, 2025November 11, 2025 /Leave a comment
I joined the Army a few months after September 11, 2001 (9/11). Military service runs in my family with relatives serving in the Civil War, World War II and Vietnam.  A few months before I joined, I obtained the Eagle Scout rank in the Boy Scouts...
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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
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

Digital Dose

Edward Conway

How the big banks look at stablecoin, digital assets and modernization, with Ned Conway

November 17, 2025 /Leave a comment
In this episode of "Financial Crime Matters," Kieran Beer talks live from "The ACAMS Assembly Las Vegas" with Ned Conway, executive secretary at the Wolfsberg Group, an association of 12 of the world's largest banks that focuses on managing financial crime and money laundering risks....
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How Sanctions Became a Way to Wage War and When They Actually Work, with Eddie Fishman

How sanctions became a way to wage war and when they actually work, with Eddie Fishman

November 3, 2025 /Leave a comment
Sanctions Space Podcast Oksana Ihnatenko on Supporting Ukraine

Oksana Ihnatenko on supporting Ukraine

October 17, 2025 /Leave a comment

World Digest

North Korean IT worker infiltration: Synthetic identities

North Korean IT worker infiltration: Synthetic identities

December 10, 2025December 10, 2025 /Leave a comment
Gobally, companies are facing a new insider threat: foreign operatives from the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea posing as legitimate information technology professionals. While DPRK-sponsored cybercriminals have been linked to countless ransomware and espionage attacks in recent years, this emerging threat requires infiltrating organizations...
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Everything you wanted to know about Magnitsky in Brazil

Everything you wanted to know about Magnitsky in Brazil

November 11, 2025 /Leave a comment
Enhancing AML strategies through collaboration

Enhancing AML strategies through collaboration: The case of section 314(b)

October 2, 2025 /Leave a comment

Member Spotlight

Lucas Naldi, CAMS—Sao Paulo, Brazil

Lucas Naldi, CAMS—Sao Paulo, Brazil

December 10, 2025December 10, 2025 /Leave a comment
With over 10 years of experience, nine of which have been dedicated to anti-money laundering/counter terrorist financing, Lucas Naldi is an AML specialist recognized for his career path that connects the rigor of the traditional financial system with the agility of financial technology. Naldi is...
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Monika Kobosko, CAMS—Warsaw, Poland

Monika Kobosko, CAMS—Warsaw, Poland

December 10, 2025 /Leave a comment
Md Nasim Akhtar, CCAS—Mumbai, India

Md Nasim Akhtar, CCAS—Mumbai, India

December 10, 2025 /Leave a comment

Know Your Chapter

ACAMS New York Chapter

ACAMS New York Chapter celebrates its 20th anniversary

December 10, 2025December 10, 2025 /Leave a comment
Twenty years ago, a group of anti-financial crime professionals gathered at the offices of U.S. Trust in New York City, marking the first event of the ACAMS New York Chapter. In November 2025, roughly 250 AFC professionals gathered to commemorate the chapter’s 20th anniversary, a...
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ACAMS South Florida Chapter

From awareness to action: ACAMS South Florida Chapter advances the fight against HT

December 10, 2025 /Leave a comment
ACAMS Greater Buffalo Chapter

ACAMS Greater Buffalo Chapter: A night of insight and recognition at the BSA Officer Roundtable

December 10, 2025 /Leave a comment

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