Benedict Bahner, CAMS, Author at ACAMS Today

Jinisha Bhatt: The Human Cost of Financial Crime

March 8, 2025March 6, 2025 /Leave a comment

ACAMS Today sat down with Jinisha Bhatt for International Women’s Day 2025. She is an anti-financial crime (AFC) investigator specializing in multi-jurisdictional cryptocurrency fraud, money laundering and human trafficking (HT) investigations. She is passionate about addressing the human cost of financial crime, believing that “most...

International Women's Day, Interviews, Women in AFC

Melissa Strait: A Fintech Trailblazer

March 7, 2025March 6, 2025 /Leave a comment

ACAMS Today spoke to Melissa Strait for International Women’s Day 2025. She is an expert in compliance in financial technology (fintech), having joined Coinbase as the chief compliance officer in February 2021. At Coinbase, she oversees the entirety of the firm’s compliance efforts, including anti-money laundering...

International Women's Day, Women in AFC

Jean Chung: Celebrating Women in AFC

March 6, 2025March 5, 2025 /Leave a comment

ACAMS Today caught up with Jean Chung, who is the chief compliance officer of Hong Kong and Greater China, North Asia, for Standard Chartered Bank. Chung also sits on the ACAMS Advisory Board. Prior to her current role, Chung was head financial crime compliance (FCC),...

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Chloe Hatten and Astrid Andersson: Mitigating Wildlife Crime

March 2, 2025February 28, 2025 /Leave a comment

ACAMS Today sat down with Dr. Chloe Hatten and Dr. Astrid Andersson, postdoctoral researchers at the University of Hong Kong, for World Wildlife Day 2025. Dr. Hatten is focusing on wildlife trade issues in Hong Kong from a conservation genetic and forensic research approach. She is...

Breaking Barriers in AFC: Recap of ACAMS Las Vegas The Assembly

Compliance, Exclusive, Fraud

Breaking Barriers in AFC: Recap of The Assembly Las Vegas

October 1, 2024 /Leave a comment

The ACAMS Assembly Las Vegas, held from September 23-25, 2024, at the Aria Resort and Casino, presented a variety of sessions addressing important anti-financial crime (AFC) topics such as cryptocurrency, compliance regulation, suspicious activity reports (SARs), artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI), the FTX...

ACAMS Connection, Compliance, Exclusive

The Assembly Las Vegas 2023

October 16, 2023April 15, 2024 /Leave a comment

The successful ACAMS Assembly Las Vegas drew approximately 2,500 in-person and online attendees, encompassing more than 50 sessions covering a number of topics of interest to anti-financial crime (AFC) professionals, including pig butchering scams, digital assets fraud, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine...