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Efectividad en los controles

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 /Leave a comment

En un entorno de riesgos dinámico y una creciente sofisticación del crimen financiero, la medición de la efectividad de los controles antilavado de dinero (ALD) y la lucha contra el financiamiento del terrorismo (CFT) es crucial para garantizar que los esfuerzos de cumplimiento no solo...

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Understanding AI - AI and the future of compliance

AFC Challenges, Compliance, Understanding AI

AI and the future of compliance: Tools, risks and human oversight

October 1, 2025 /Leave a comment

We live in a time when what seems exceptional today, quickly becomes routine tomorrow. In this rapidly evolving environment, behaviors, technologies and risks are transforming at an unprecedented speed. The digital era brings both opportunities and challenges. One day we read about the use of...

Digital Dose, Financial Crime Matters

Embarking on a new anti-financial crime era, with AUSTRAC’s Brendan Thomas

September 29, 2025 /Leave a comment

In this episode of "Financial Crime Matters," Kieran Beer talks with AUSTRAC's CEO Brendan Thomas out his agency's efforts to implement a vast extension of Australia's anti-money laundering (AML) regime to about 80,000 new entities under legislation commonly referred to as T2. In service to...

Digital Dose, Sanctions Space

Alex Zerden on the Middle East, Crypto, Cartels and Changing U.S. Priorities

September 26, 2025September 29, 2025 /Leave a comment

At the ACAMS Las Vegas Assembly, Justine sat down with Alex Zerden of Capitol Peak Strategies. Their discussion covers a range of U.S. sanctions priorities, including significant actions undertaken on both drug cartels and Iran, easing measures on Syria and the implications of a U.S.-backed...

ACAMS Booth at the Assembly at Vegas 2025

AFC Challenges, AFC Policy, Compliance, Fraud

Leading AFC topics addressed at The Assembly Las Vegas

September 24, 2025 /Leave a comment

From September 16-18, ACAMS hosted its annual The Assembly Las Vegas at the Aria Resort and Casino. This premiere anti-financial crime (AFC) event featured three days filled with keynotes, panel sessions and discussions of front-of-mind topics including AFC regulation, artificial intelligence (AI), elder financial abuse,...

Undersecretary John K. Hurley's Day 1 Keynote Presentation - The Assembly Las Vegas 2025

AFC Policy, Digital Dose

A Message to AFC Professionals from Undersecretary John K. Hurley

September 18, 2025September 18, 2025 /Leave a comment

During his keynote presentation on the opening day of the Assembly Las Vegas, John K. Hurley, Undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, discussed the Department of the Treasury’s new tone regarding suspicious activity reports and the Bank Secrecy Act. Click here to...

Cooking quality money laundering: A to aid AML professionals

AFC Challenges, Compliance, Practical Solutions, September – November 2025

Cooking quality money laundering: A recipe to aid AML professionals

September 12, 2025October 16, 2025 /Leave a comment

Welcome to the underground kitchen of elite money laundering. In this world, success is not measured in Michelin stars, but in clean and pleasing money trails. The chefs in this kitchen must work with undesirable ingredients (dirty money) but their masterful skills create delectable dishes....

AFC Challenges, Compliance, Global Financial Crime Review, Practical Solutions, September – November 2025

Digital wealth, physical harm: The rise of crypto kidnapping

September 12, 2025September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment

During the past year, there has been a dramatic increase in physical violence toward individuals within the crypto industry or associated with crypto wealth. This new variant of kidnapping for ransom During the past year, there has been a dramatic increase in physical violence toward...

Europe Express, September – November 2025, World Digest

Europe’s dirty secret: Waste trafficking

September 12, 2025 /1 Comment

Just a short drive from the tourist streets of Naples, Italy, the soil bears witness to an unnatural death toll. The towns of Acerra, Nola and Marigliano, once idyllic rural communities, have earned the grim epithet of “the Triangle of Death.” This lethal zone created...

AFC Challenges, Fraud, Practical Solutions, September – November 2025

The evolving threat from within

September 12, 2025September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment

A recent briefing, “The Threat from Within: A Growing Concern,” jointly published by ACAMS and Cifas, offered a framework for understanding the shifting landscape of risks posed by insiders operating within both public and private sector organizations. A recent briefing, “The Threat from Within: A Growing...