Larissa Bernardes, Author at ACAMS Today

Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Interviews

Angela Guanzon: Second Chances

January 10, 2020January 10, 2025 /Leave a comment

ACAMS Today had the opportunity to speak with Angela Guanzon—human trafficking survivor and anti-human trafficking advocate—about her experiences with the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST) organization and how collaboration is key in combating human trafficking. Guanzon was born and raised in the Philippines...

Aspects of APAC, Exclusive, Human Trafficking Awareness Month

Fighting Modern Slavery: What the Banking Sector Can Do to Help

January 9, 2020January 10, 2025 /Leave a comment

Modern slavery, which represents the recruitment, transport, receipt and harboring of people for the purpose of exploiting their labor, affects almost all parts of the world. Globally, it is estimated that there are over 40 million men, women and children in modern day slavery, with...

Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Know Your Chapter, UK Chapter

ACAMS United Kingdom Chapter—Trafficking and Convergence

January 8, 2020January 10, 2025 /Leave a comment

Since 2011, January has been the National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month in the US, with 11 January designated as the National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Why does that matter? It is important because trafficking and slavery are not crimes of the past. People...

Europe Express, World Digest

Third Year of the Compliance Officer Degree Program: Art and Money Laundering

November 27, 2019December 17, 2019 /Leave a comment

On June 20, 2019, students of the compliance officer degree program presented their final assignments. For the third consecutive year, the accreditation has been offered by the University of Law at Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in Versailles, France with the support of the Association...

Acceso LatAm, Español, In Focus

Acceso Bancario: El Pilar Ausente del Futuro de América Latina

October 9, 2019October 11, 2019 /1 Comment

El acceso a servicios bancarios básicos es un lujo en muchos casos para una parte significativa de la población en América Latina. A pesar de la fuerte presencia de muchos de los bancos más importantes de EE.UU. y Europa en América Latina, la falta de...

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Compliance, September – November 2019

From Partnership to Progress in the Fight to End Human Trafficking

September 5, 2019January 11, 2021 /Leave a comment

In today’s society, everything happens quickly. What is current one minute has the potential to become obsolete the next. Nowhere is this sentiment truer than it is for criminals and their ever-evolving tactics to stay one-step ahead of law enforcement (LE). In the human trafficking...

Compliance, In Focus, September – November 2019

Digital Identity and Financial Crimes

September 4, 2019September 20, 2019 /Leave a comment

"Digital identity" has replaced blockchain to become 2019’s new tech-based solution to revolutionize compliance functions from anti-money laundering (AML) to audit. However, given the recent involvement of Estonia’s digital identity network in the Danske Bank money laundering scandal, the question of how to ensure adequate...

Digital Dose

Sanctions with John Smith

May 7, 2019May 22, 2019 /Leave a comment

In this episode, Kieran Beer sits down with John Smith, a global authority on sanctions. Smith spent 11 years at the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Discover why OFAC was created and its role in setting sanctions. Click here to listen to the podcast.

Digital Dose

Podcast: Working With Private-Public Partnerships, What is Working and What Could Be Improved

April 11, 2019April 12, 2019 /Leave a comment

In this episode of AML Conversations, ACAMS Guest Voice John Byrne sits down with Don Fort, chief of the IRS Criminal Investigation (CI) division to discuss private-public partnerships, Bank Secrecy Act data and a look back at the last 100 years for IRS-CI during...

International Women's Day, Interviews

Jeannette Torres: Finding Balance

March 27, 2019March 19, 2025 /Leave a comment

The ACAMS EDGE chapter celebrated international women’s month with a special breakfast on Friday, March 22, 2019. Psychologist, TV personality and author, Jeannette Torres, was the guest speaker. She spoke about her upcoming book Ser Mamá. ACAMS Today sat down with Torres after her presentation...

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The Magazine for Career-Minded Professionals in the Anti-Financial Crime Field

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