ACAMS Pittsburgh Chapter: Education Is the Foundation for AFC

Founding director of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Graduate Certificate Program and associate professor at Gannon University, Musa Tuzuner, spoke to the ACAMS Pittsburgh Chapter about his career, studying anti-financial crime (AFC) and incorporating the lessons learned from the field experience and the classroom setting into...
Understanding Geographic Money Laundering Risk

Anti-financial crime (AFC) regulations worldwide require that regulated businesses assess the business risk from money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing perspectives. An important component of financial crime risk assessment is understanding and assessing the risk emanating from the geographies where business deals are conducted....
Career Growth: The Importance of Self-training

Training is an often-misunderstood pillar of anti-money laundering (AML) programs. Some practitioners in the AML industry believe the requirement is for the training of all personnel in an organization when the requirement is actually “training for appropriate personnel.” A deeper dive into the regulatory requirement...