2019 Has Us Smiling Like an Eat’n Park Cookie
The Pittsburgh Chapter of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) is rounding out the first quarter of the year. During this time, the chapter held two events and will soon hold their third. In addition to continuing to engage the community, the chapter...
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.
Beneficiarios Finales: ¿Qué tan complicado puede ser?
El propósito primordial de las leyes, regulaciones y principios generales de antilavado de dinero (ALD) es establecer tanto en el sector privado como en el gubernamental―controles adecuados y suficientes para mitigar riesgos, prevenir, detectar y reportar actividades relacionadas al lavado de dinero o la legitimación...
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...
Trickle Up AML
The young uniformed patrol officer could not help but notice the almost giddy expression on the face of the narcotics agent who was putting a heavily taped bricklike block into an evidence bag at the station house. Curious, the officer inquires, “What’s that?” The...
Criminal Forfeiture: Hitting Criminals Where it Hurts Most
Following the promulgation of the USA PATRIOT Act in 2001, the confusion surrounding civil and criminal forfeiture definitions and conceptual incongruities was dispelled. In fact, the USA PATRIOT Act helped to forcefully determine the feasibility of both civil and criminal asset forfeiture processes to...