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How the big banks look at stablecoin, digital assets and modernization, with Ned Conway
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....
How sanctions became a way to wage war and when they actually work, with Eddie Fishman
In this episode of "Financial Crime Matters," Kieran Beer talks with Eddie Fishman, author of “Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War," about the rapid growth in the use of financial sanctions in the 21st Century, with each U.S. president from George...
Oksana Ihnatenko on supporting Ukraine
At the ACAMS Las Vegas Assembly, Justine Walker sat down with Oksana Ihnatenko of RUSI, and recipient of the 2025 ACAMS Rising Professional of the Year Award. Their discussion includes Ihnatenko’s research and work to build public-private partnerships in Ukraine, how Ukrainians view current sanctions...
Samuel Cousins: The importance of the Global Threats Report Survey
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 sanctions webinars and the ACAMS Global AFC Threats Report. Cousins’ work also focuses on countering...
Carole House on AI, cybersecurity and sanctions
At the ACAMS Las Vegas Assembly, Justine Walker sat down with Carole House, senior distinguished fellow of ACAMS. Their discussion includes the AFC implications of generative artificial intelligence, including increasing sophistication of deepfakes and the resulting "authenticity crisis," how we can build resilience to the...
Embarking on a new anti-financial crime era, with AUSTRAC’s Brendan Thomas
In this episode of "Financial Crime Matters," Kieran Beer talks with AUSTRAC's CEO Brendan Thomas out his agency's efforts to implement a vast extension of Australia's anti-money laundering (AML) regime to about 80,000 new entities under legislation commonly referred to as T2. In service to...
Alex Zerden on the Middle East, Crypto, Cartels and Changing U.S. Priorities
At the ACAMS Las Vegas Assembly, Justine sat down with Alex Zerden of Capitol Peak Strategies. Their discussion covers a range of U.S. sanctions priorities, including significant actions undertaken on both drug cartels and Iran, easing measures on Syria and the implications of a U.S.-backed...
Leading AFC topics addressed at The Assembly Las Vegas
From September 16-18, ACAMS hosted its annual The Assembly Las Vegas at the Aria Resort and Casino. This premiere anti-financial crime (AFC) event featured three days filled with keynotes, panel sessions and discussions of front-of-mind topics including AFC regulation, artificial intelligence (AI), elder financial abuse,...
A Message to AFC Professionals from Undersecretary John K. Hurley
During his keynote presentation on the opening day of the Assembly Las Vegas, John K. Hurley, Undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, discussed the Department of the Treasury’s new tone regarding suspicious activity reports and the Bank Secrecy Act. Click here to...