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ACAMS Awards, Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Interviews

Jennifer Fiddian-Green, CAMS: Working Together to Fight Human Trafficking

January 11, 2018October 20, 2022 /Leave a comment

ACAMS Today had the opportunity to speak with Jennifer Fiddian-Green, CAMS, partner with Grant Thornton (GT) LLP, about the current human trafficking landscape and her work with Project Protect, an initiative launched to disrupt human trafficking by breaking financial chains. Fiddian-Green is GT’s national practice...

Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Interviews

Sande Bayer: Anti-Human Trafficking Success Stories in Thailand

January 11, 2018October 20, 2022 /Leave a comment

ACAMS Today caught up with Sande Bayer, vice president of the middle office within the wealth management and investment services division at U.S. Bank, to discuss her anti-human trafficking (HT) preventive efforts and her recent trip to Thailand. As vice president, Bayer manages the onboarding...

December 2017 - February 2018, Interviews

Celebrating Excellence

December 12, 2017December 12, 2017 /Leave a comment

Each year ACAMS is honored to recognize members at the award ceremony during the Las Vegas conference. This year, at the 16th Annual AML and Financial Crime Conference, ACAMS recognized several innovative and passionate professionals who have made outstanding contributions to the anti-financial crime...

AFC Challenges, December 2017 - February 2018, Exclusive, Global Financial Crime Review

Project Protect: An In-Depth Review of the Public-Private Partnership to Combat Human Trafficking in Canada

December 12, 2017July 24, 2019 /Leave a comment

Editor’s note: This article was shared with the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (PASS) as a supplement to their Workshop on Assisting Victims of Human Trafficking that took place on November 4-6, 2017, in Vatican City. Ending human trafficking is often regarded as an...

Exclusive, Riveting Reads

The Young Adult’s Guide to Identity Theft, by Myra Faye Turner

November 14, 2017November 14, 2017 /Leave a comment

Financial fraud is a known risk that may serve as a predicate criminal offense for money laundering activities; however, the topic may not always receive its due within the anti-money laundering community. The recent hack,1 data breach and theft of over 140 million U.S. consumers’...

In Focus

John J. Byrne’s Remarks: Best Practices—AML and Financial Crime Compliance

October 9, 2017 /Leave a comment

I appreciate the opportunity to discuss the major progress and commitment of the gaming industry to anti-money laundering (AML) success and improvement. As we all know, without the full support of compliance, legal and business professionals to make AML a better place regarding the detection...

AFC Challenges, September – November 2017

Cybersecurity: Nation-State Actors, Encrypted Cybercrimes and Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

September 19, 2017September 27, 2018 /Leave a comment

Digital Dose

Danny Glaser: Sanctions and AML

September 6, 2017 /Leave a comment

In this segment of the award-winning AML Now, John J. Byrne, anti-money laundering (AML) speaker, writer and subject-matter expert, interviews Danny L. Glaser, principal with the Financial Integrity Network, about the wide use of sanctions, their importance as a national security tool and Glaser’s thoughts...

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Congratulations to This Year’s ACAMS Today Article of the Year Winners!

August 23, 2017 /Leave a comment

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Fintech: Dando el Salto

August 9, 2017March 17, 2023 /Leave a comment

No nos dimos cuenta de que teníamos clientes de Fintech hasta que descubrimos el término hace sólo un par de años. Concedido, en retrospectiva, entendíamos vagamente que eran diferentes de nuestros clientes de servicios financieros convencionales. Tuvimos que investigar más y hacer más preguntas de...

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