How AI-Driven Social Media Monitoring for AML Works: Part 1
Most have an opinion—or several—about social media. How and why these networks have importance and influence is up for debate. What is not debatable is that social media platforms share useful information and these platforms do have influence. Compromising photos, information leaks and viral memes...
The Importance of Training Prosecutors with Elliot Casey
In this episode of AML Conversations, ACAMS Guest Voice John Byrne talks to Elliott Casey about how prosecutors in the Commonwealth of Virginia get trained on many areas of law, including financial crime. Casey is a former prosecutor who now trains law enforcement officials, prosecutors and investigators alike. Click here to...
Billion Dollar Whale: Bradley Hope on 1MDB
In the first episode of his new podcast series, Kieran Beer sits down with author and Wall Street Journal reporter Bradley Hope to examine the story behind the story of the 1MDB scandal. Click here to listen to the podcast.
Secrecy World: Jake Bernstein on the Panama Papers
In this episode, Kieran Beer interviews two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Jake Bernstein about his new book "Secrecy World”. The book is based on the story of Mossack Fonseca and the 2017 scandal. Click here to listen to the podcast.
Cybersecurity: Education, Awareness and Defense
In this episode of AML Conversations, ACAMS Guest Voice John Byrne talks to Dr. Thomas Kaczmarek, Director of the Center for Cyber Security Awareness and Cyber Defense, at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They discuss the skill sets needed to enter the cybersecurity program...
Human Trafficking and Major Sporting Events: The Dark Side of the Super Bowl
With an estimated $407 million in new spending, 125,000 visitors, 5,000 jobs created and $242 million created in wages in 2017 alone,1 the Super Bowl is more than just a game. It is the largest non-global annual sporting event, bringing hundreds of thousands of rowdy...
Deborah Lehr: Think Big, Why not? You Never Know What You Might Achieve
ACAMS Today sat down with Deborah M. Lehr, to speak about her background, professional experience and her passion to protect human heritage. Lehr is chairman and founder of the Antiquities Coalition. Lehr is an accomplished global business strategist who has supported leading global firms and...
Tráfico Ilícito de Fauna Silvestre: Un Desafío Urgente Para los Profesionales de ALD
TEl pangolín, una criatura que se encuentra mayormente en África, es el mamífero más traficado del mundo. Esta criatura parece prehistórica, pesa entre 2 y 33 kilogramos y mide entre 30 y 152 centímetros. Se estima que más de 2,7 millones de pangolines son atrapados...
Lydia Cacho: The Defender of Human Rights
ACAMS Today sat down with Lydia Cacho at the ACAMS 17th Annual AML & Financial Crime Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada to discuss her lifetime commitment in the fight for human rights, her career as an investigative journalist, her views on human trafficking (HT) awareness...