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Awards, December 2021 - February 2022

Presenting Your 2021 Award Champions: Hong Kong Chapter

December 8, 2021January 10, 2022 /Leave a comment

Every year, ACAMS recognizes and awards several outstanding members for their contributions to the anti-financial crime (AFC) industry. This year, ACAMS honored four exceptional individuals and one extraordinary chapter at the return of the in-person ACAMS Las Vegas conference. ACAMS awarded the ACAMS AFC Professional...

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With Congressional Deadlines Looming, FinCEN Charts Path for Ownership Database

December 7, 2021January 3, 2023 /Leave a comment

U.S. officials on Tuesday published their long-awaited roadmap for building a national database of corporate owners as mandated by the Corporate Transparency Act, or CTA, legislation widely considered the most comprehensive set of anti-money laundering reforms since 2001. Click here to read the full article.

Investment Funds and the U.S.Corporate Transparency Act

ACAMS Conexión, Español

Los fondos de inversión y la ley de Transparencia Corporativa de EE.UU.

December 3, 2021 /Leave a comment

Como se mencionó en el artículo Investment Funds and AML publicado en la edición de ACAMS Today Europe de mayo-junio de 2021,1 los fondos de inversión en los EE.UU. no están sujetos a los mismos requisitos que las instituciones financieras en cuanto a la divulgación...

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ACAMS Conexión, Español

Donde hay humo, hay fuego, y donde hay fraude está la Ley de Secreto Bancario/ALD

December 3, 2021 /Leave a comment

A lo largo de la historia, han habido intersecciones de investigaciones sobre fraude y lavado de dinero. Al fin y al cabo, ¿cómo pueden los defraudadores conseguir que sus fondos ilícitos parezcan legítimos? Con el paso del tiempo, ambos se han entrelazado aún más y...

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ACAMS Conexión, Español

El lavado de las criptomonedas es cada vez más sofisticado y se expande más allá del internet oscuro

December 3, 2021February 2, 2023 /Leave a comment

Por: Daniel Bethencourt En enero de 2019, Hamás, una organización palestina incluida en la lista negra de EE.UU., supuestamente publicó una solicitud en una plataforma de comunicación encriptada para que los partidarios en el extranjero donaran bitcoins a la única billetera digital que el grupo...

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Cryptocurrency Exit Scams—What They Are and How to Avoid Them

ACAMS Conexión, Español

Estafas con las salidas de las criptomonedas ¿Qué son y cómo evitarlas?

December 3, 2021 /Leave a comment

A lo largo de los años, las criptomonedas se han convertido en un tema de discusión muy controvertido, principalmente por las dos fuerzas opuestas que tratan de navegar dentro del espacio. Por un lado, están quienes creen en la tecnología, los futuristas y los innovadores...

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AFC Challenges, In Focus

Can a Small Business Mindset Contribute to Bribery and Other Forms of Corruption?

December 1, 2021 /Leave a comment

When an organization is small, it is not unusual for trusted employees to have certain freedoms that would not pass muster with an internal auditor. Standard anti-fraud practices like segregation of duties may be overlooked when a small staff makes it difficult to fulfill every...

Aspects of APAC, Exclusive

How to Incorporate Money Laundering Risk Into Risk Management: Part Two

December 1, 2021 /Leave a comment

This is the second article of a three-part series that provides guidance on the practice of incorporating money laundering risk into risk management. This article will focus on formulating risk management strategies to prevent money laundering. Money Laundering Risk Management and Strategy Formulation In practice,...

December 2021 APM Winner Sarvesh Chadha Photo

AFC Professional of the Month

Congratulations Sarvesh Chadha, CGSS!

December 1, 2021 /Leave a comment

December’s AML Professional of the Month was awarded to Sarvesh Chadha, CGSS. Chadha is a skilled anti-money laundering (AML) specialist with around eight years of experience in sanctions advisory, AML compliance, suspicious activity reports (SARs), client profiling and transaction monitoring systems. Chadha is currently working...

AFC Challenges, In Focus

Digital Government Currency and the Risk of Authoritarianism

November 29, 2021December 1, 2021 /Leave a comment

Serious debates about cryptocurrencies provided one area of policy debate emerging out of the COVID-19 pandemic. In December 2020, the economic historian Niall Ferguson declared1 Bitcoin as the best investment option in light of the coronavirus pandemic due to the nature of pandemics “accelerating” financial...