Filip Brokes, Author at ACAMS Today

AFC Challenges, Compliance, December 2025 – February 2026, Global Financial Crime Review

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 accessed via the Telegram messaging app might sound like a questionable, yet relatively harmless pastime for a Sunday activity. Unfortunately,...

AFC Policy, Europe Express, Featured Column

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...

Europe Express, June – August 2024, World Digest

European Football Clubs Under AFC Regulation

June 14, 2024June 14, 2024 /Leave a comment

It does not take an expert in football (or soccer, as it is known in some parts of the world) to recognize that the sport has a corruption problem. From the widely reported 2015 FIFA corruption scandal to the controversial awarding of the FIFA World...