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ESG

Four Questions: Understanding ESG’s Convergence with Fighting Financial Crime

May 24, 2022May 26, 2022 /Leave a comment
Environmental, social and governance initiatives within financial institutions are a current hot topic for discussion in corporate board rooms and the financial press, with critics...
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Making Russian Sanctions Stick and Fighting Financial Crime, with Ilze Znotina

Making Russian Sanctions Stick and Fighting Financial Crime, with Ilze Znotina

May 23, 2022May 23, 2022 /Leave a comment
In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran Beer talks with Ilze Znotina about the challenges Latvia has faced over the past four years she...
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Understanding and Identifying Sex Trafficking

Understanding and Identifying Sex Trafficking

May 20, 2022May 20, 2022 /Leave a comment
This article is the second in a three-part series on human trafficking. As we learned in the article Understanding Human Trafficking, in the U.S., sex...
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Preventing Digital Payment Systems Fraud

Preventing Digital Payment Systems Fraud

May 4, 2022May 4, 2022 /Leave a comment
Digital payment volumes have increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic as more companies sell their products and services through digital channels. These payments have expanded...
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Megan Lundstrom: Human Trafficking Survivor, Crusader and Game Changer

April 28, 2022May 27, 2022 /Leave a comment
ACAMS Today had the opportunity to sit down and speak with Megan Lundstrom, an anti-human trafficking subject-matter expert and survivor, consultant, co-founder and CEO at...
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Understanding Human Trafficking

April 19, 2022May 25, 2022 /Leave a comment
This article is the first part of a three-part series on human trafficking. Anti-financial crimes (AFC) professionals are uniquely positioned to identify human trafficking operations...
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Special for the Web

AFC Culture: Have We Come Far Enough?

AFC Culture: Have We Come Far Enough?

May 24, 2022May 25, 2022 /Leave a comment

Scandals in recent years have shown that some institutions are still failing to live up to their obligation to minimize financial crime risk. In 2021, fines for noncompliance with anti-financial crime (AFC) and related regulatory actions totaled $5.4 billion. These failures occurred despite many financial institutions spending hundreds of millions to transform their control processes and systems. The persisting and large problem is not technical but cultural.

Preventing Digital Payment Systems Fraud

Preventing Digital Payment Systems Fraud

May 4, 2022May 4, 2022 /Leave a comment
Understanding Front Office Needs

Responsive Approach: Understanding Front Office Needs

April 5, 2022 /2 Comments
Sanctions Targeting Russia

Sanctions Targeting Russia: Parallels to Measures Against Iran

March 16, 2022March 30, 2022 /Leave a comment
COVID-19 Pandemic Fraud: Unemployment, PPP, SBA, EIP and More

COVID-19 Pandemic Fraud: Unemployment, PPP, SBA, EIP and More

March 15, 2022March 28, 2022 /Leave a comment
Ukraine, Russia and Belarus Sanctions Update

Ukraine, Russia and Belarus Sanctions Update

March 8, 2022March 14, 2022 /Leave a comment

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Understanding and Identifying Sex Trafficking

Understanding and Identifying Sex Trafficking

May 20, 2022May 20, 2022 /Leave a comment
This article is the second in a three-part series on human trafficking. As we learned in the article Understanding Human Trafficking, in the U.S., sex trafficking is defined as follows: Figure 1: Section 7102 (11) (A) of Title 22 U.S. Code “The recruitment, harboring, transportation,...
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Why is the Shipment Going?

Riddle Me This: Why is the Shipment Going?

April 5, 2022 /Leave a comment
Sanction on Russia: Pay Attention Now, Avoid Emerging Risk Later

Sanctions on Russia: Pay Attention Now, Avoid Emerging Risk Later

March 11, 2022March 14, 2022 /1 Comment
Upfront Strategy for Implementing Innovative AFC Technologies

Upfront Strategy for Implementing Innovative AFC Technologies

March 4, 2022 /Leave a comment
Exploratory Analysis

How to Incorporate Money Laundering Risk Into Risk Management: Part Three

February 10, 2022 /Leave a comment
Will AML Professionals Participate in Managing ESG Risk?

Will AML Professionals Participate in Managing ESG Risk?

January 21, 2022February 10, 2022 /Leave a comment

Interviews

Megan Lundstrom: Human Trafficking Survivor, Crusader and Game Changer

April 28, 2022May 27, 2022 /Leave a comment
ACAMS Today had the opportunity to sit down and speak with Megan Lundstrom, an anti-human trafficking subject-matter expert and survivor, consultant, co-founder and CEO at The Avery Center (TAC). Lundstrom discussed what led to the formation of TAC, her personal human trafficking (HT) experience and...
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Kaleidoscopic

Kaleidoscopic Compliance: How DEI Became an ACAMS Priority

March 17, 2022March 29, 2022 /Leave a comment
Delicia Speller

Delicia Speller: Breaking the Bias through Subject Matter Expertise

March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 /Leave a comment

AFC Professional of the Month

Jonathan Dupont

Congratulations, Jonathan Dupont!

May 3, 2022May 4, 2022 /Leave a comment
May’s AFC Professional of the Month  was awarded to Jonathan Dupont for his tremendous work in the anti-financial crime (AFC) field, as well as for his contributions to the fight against human trafficking and child exploitation/abuse. Dupont has been a financial intelligence analyst at Western...
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Annetta Davis-Francis

Congratulations, Annetta Davis-Francis, CAMS!

April 11, 2022April 6, 2022 /Leave a comment
March’s AFC Professional of the Mont - Prosper Maguchu, CAMS

Congratulations, Prosper Simbarashe Maguchu, CAMS!

March 1, 2022 /Leave a comment

Digital Dose

Making Russian Sanctions Stick and Fighting Financial Crime, with Ilze Znotina

Making Russian Sanctions Stick and Fighting Financial Crime, with Ilze Znotina

May 23, 2022May 23, 2022 /Leave a comment
In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran Beer talks with Ilze Znotina about the challenges Latvia has faced over the past four years she has been head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), including enforcing sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. “Baltic...
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Understanding the “Freedom Convoy” and the Funding of Extremist Groups, with Jessica Davis

Understanding the “Freedom Convoy” and the Funding of Extremist Groups, with Jessica Davis

May 2, 2022May 23, 2022 /Leave a comment
Tom Keatinge on the Scale and Scope of Russia Sanctions

Tom Keatinge on the Scale and Scope of Russia Sanctions

March 18, 2022March 31, 2022 /Leave a comment

Know Your Chapter

ACAMS Australasian Chapter

ACAMS Australasian Chapter: Our Journey

March 17, 2022 /Leave a comment
In Sydney on June 2007, an ACAMS introductory reception was hosted on how to form a chapter by the co-founder of ACAMS, Charles A. Intriago. In October of that year, Rick Small, current co-chair of the ACAMS advisory board, hosted a reception in Sydney to...
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ACAMS Japan Chapter

ACAMS Japan Chapter: Celebrating its First Year

January 31, 2022March 17, 2022 /Leave a comment
Giannine Cohoon and Richard Sullivan

ACAMS Middle Tennessee Chapter: Building a Rewarding AML Career

December 10, 2021January 18, 2022 /Leave a comment

Member Spotlight

Paul Camacho

Paul Camacho, CAMS—CA, USA

March 17, 2022 /Leave a comment
After serving six years as the vice president of anti-money laundering (AML) compliance for Station Casinos, Paul Camacho became the vice president of compliance for Yaamava’ Resort and Casino in May 2020. Camacho previously served as the special agent in charge for the Las Vegas...
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Alessia Bräutigam

Alessia Bräutigam—Dublin, Ireland

March 17, 2022 /Leave a comment
Derick Mostert

Derick Mostert, CAMS—Pretoria, South Africa

March 17, 2022 /Leave a comment

World Digest

How To Win a War Against Money Laundering and Financial Crimes In Pakistan

How To Win a War Against Money Laundering and Financial Crimes In Pakistan

April 5, 2022May 23, 2022 /Leave a comment
Hiding the origin of illicit money and converting the money into legitimate funds or assets have a long history. In fact, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) estimates that the amount of money laundered globally in one year is between $800 billion...
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AML Controls for Crypto in Europe

AML Controls for Crypto in Europe

March 30, 2022 /Leave a comment
COVID-19 and The Sexual Exploitation of Children Online

La COVID-19 et l’exploitation sexuelle des enfants en ligne

February 22, 2022March 4, 2022 /Leave a comment

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