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Bekah Charleston: Turning trauma into empowerment

Bekah Charleston: Turning trauma into empowerment

Cumplimiento: ¿Inversión o gasto para el sujeto obligado?

Cumplimiento: ¿Inversión o gasto para el sujeto obligado?

FATF grey lists Nepal: Potential economic implications

FATF grey lists Nepal: Potential economic implications

The effects of AML guidelines on digital assets

The effects of AML guidelines on digital assets

The deepfake dilemma: The rise of synthetic identity threats

The deepfake dilemma: The rise of synthetic identity threats

The World Cup: A magnet for financial crime

The World Cup: A magnet for financial crime

About Larissa Bernardes
December 2019 - February 2020, Practical Solutions

Using Process Improvement to Drive Efficiencies in Your AML Program

December 12, 2019 /Leave a comment
Any anti-money laundering (AML) program has multiple key processes, such as alert review, suspicious activity report filing and sanctions screening. AML programs are constantly being pushed to create efficiencies and lower costs. Much time and effort has been devoted to tools such as robotic...
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December 2019 - February 2020, From the Director of Editorial Content

Weaponizing Kindness and Compassion

December 12, 2019 /Leave a comment
The horrific news in October that 39 people were found suffocated in a lorry about 25 miles east of London is just the latest reminder—a particularly shocking one— that the trafficking and smuggling of human beings remains a pervasive and persistent cancer in our world....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Financial Crime Matters
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.
Exclusive, Tech Scope

The Art of the Possible: AI’s Limits

April 24, 2019February 15, 2022 /Leave a comment
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. From consumer products like voice assistants and music recommendations to commercial applications for data management as well as email marketing—the technology has arrived and there is much more on the way. AI is driving vehicles, authoring articles and translating...
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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...
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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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