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Russia’s Hope of Ice Hockey Glory Buried Under Sanctions

Russia’s Hope of Ice Hockey Glory Buried Under Sanctions

Trade Finance Risk and Controls

Trade Finance Risk and Controls

Is It “Groundhog Day” for Digital Assets?

Is It “Groundhog Day” for Digital Assets?

The Rise of Real Estate Money Laundering

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The BSA Tractor

The BSA Tractor

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The Rise of Real Estate Money Laundering

March 10, 2023March 14, 2023 /Leave a comment
The growth of real estate money laundering has been prevalent throughout the past 15 years as the U.S. continues to see ever-changing criminal strategies that facilitate illicit funds to move through the financial system with real estate purchases. As many bank compliance professionals can attest,...
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FinCEN’s Cybercrime and Cybersecurity Policies

FinCEN’s Cybercrime and Cybersecurity Policies

February 24, 2023March 8, 2023 /Leave a comment

Human Trafficking: Detection and Investigations

January 30, 2023March 2, 2023 /Leave a comment
Machine Learning: A Game-changer in the Fight Against Money Laundering

Machine Learning: A Game-Changer in the Fight Against Money Laundering

January 19, 2023March 8, 2023 /Leave a comment
Human Trafficking: Persona-based Typologies and Methodology

Human Trafficking: Persona-based Typologies and Methodology

January 10, 2023February 7, 2023 /Leave a comment
The FTX Case May be Good News for the Crypto Ecosystem

The FTX Case May be Good News for the Crypto Ecosystem

December 14, 2022January 13, 2023 /Leave a comment

Featured Column

Dissecting the Mafia: Calabria’s ‘Ndrangheta

Dissecting the Mafia: Calabria’s ‘Ndrangheta

March 17, 2023 /Leave a comment
C alabria, the southern region of Italy referred to as the “toe” of the “boot,” is home to one of the most dangerous crime syndicates in the world—the ‘Ndrangheta. Its ruthlessness has made it one of the major players in the international drug market, allowing...
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Information Sharing: Why Community Banks Should Participate

Information Sharing: Why Community Banks Should Participate

March 10, 2023March 14, 2023 /Leave a comment
Making the Leap to Management

Making the Leap to Management

March 10, 2023March 14, 2023 /Leave a comment
What Does a Recruiter Do?

What Does a Recruiter Do?

March 10, 2023March 14, 2023 /Leave a comment
Community Banks: Cybersecurity

Community Banks: Cybersecurity

March 3, 2023 /Leave a comment

Dissecting the Mafia: Sicily’s Cosa Nostra

February 8, 2023February 23, 2023 /Leave a comment

Interviews

Edwin W. Harris Jr.: Eradicating Corruption in West Africa

March 10, 2023March 14, 2023 /Leave a comment
ACAMS Today interviewed Edwin W. Harris Jr., CAMS, director general of the Intergovernmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA), a role he assumed on August 1, 2022. Harris holds a master’s degree in public administration from Northeastern University, a Master of Business...
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EmbraceEquity

2023 International Women’s Day

March 7, 2023March 8, 2023 /Leave a comment
Veronica Tan

Veronica Tan: Technology That Can Be Trusted

March 7, 2023March 8, 2023 /Leave a comment

Special for the Web

Enterprise-wide Risk Assessment: Statement Structure

Enterprise-wide Risk Assessment: Statement Structure

March 14, 2023 /Leave a comment
The enterprise-wide risk assessment (EWRA) is a comprehensive statement for financial crime risk management at an enterprise level. It also covers the enterprise’s foreign branches/subsidiaries. The risk-based approach, which is recommended by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) 40 Recommendations, is also derived from the...
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Analysis of Customer Money Laundering Risk and Delicacy Management

Analysis of Customer Money Laundering Risk and Delicacy Management

February 28, 2023March 1, 2023 /Leave a comment

FinCEN’s Human Trafficking and Human Smuggling Priorities

January 27, 2023January 27, 2023 /Leave a comment

Digital Dose

Keeping Up with the Financial Action Task Force and Beyond, with David Lewis

March 15, 2023March 22, 2023 /Leave a comment
In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran Beer talks with David Lewis, executive secretary of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) from 2015 to 2022, about the FATF’s recent plenary that gray listed South Africa and Nigeria, formally suspended Russia from membership, and criticized...
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How Britain Became Butler to the World’s Financial Criminals, with Oliver Bullough

February 16, 2023February 23, 2023 /Leave a comment

Nathalia Dukhan and Naureen Chowdhury Fink on the Wagner Group

February 15, 2023 /Leave a comment

World Digest

Why Terrorist Organizations Use Human Trafficking

Why Terrorist Organizations Use Human Trafficking

January 25, 2023March 14, 2023 /1 Comment
Editor’s note: This article is the second part of a two-part series on human trafficking and terrorist organizations. The first part is available on ACAMSToday.org. Human trafficking (HT) is used by terrorist organizations to exploit individuals and to carry out or support terrorist activities. In...
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The Nexus Between Terrorism and Human Trafficking

The Nexus Between Terrorism and Human Trafficking

January 17, 2023March 13, 2023 /Leave a comment
Alex Saab

Proceeds of Crime: The Story of Alex Saab

August 18, 2022October 24, 2022 /Leave a comment

Member Spotlight

Amy Wotapka, CAMS—Wisconsin, USA

March 10, 2023March 14, 2023 /Leave a comment
Amy Wotapka, CAMS, is the Office of Foreign Assets Control and Bank Secrecy Act Officer at First American Bank. Wotapka’s banking career started in 1982 as a teller, ultimately landing in anti-money laundering compliance in 2001 under her mentor Jackie Santos at PNC Bank. From...
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Derek W. Smith, MBA, CAMS, CRCMP—The Bahamas

March 10, 2023March 14, 2023 /Leave a comment

Tarik Eker, CAMS—Germany

March 10, 2023March 14, 2023 /Leave a comment

Know Your Chapter

The Launch of the ACAMS Italy Chapter and What Comes Ahead!

March 10, 2023March 14, 2023 /Leave a comment
On November 21, 2022, the ACAMS Italy Chapter hosted its first in-person event in Milano for the chapter’s launch, making the Italy Chapter the 62nd chapter worldwide and 15th in Europe. Marking its first meeting at the glamourous Excelsior Hotel Gallia, the newly formed Italy...
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Location, Location, Location and 2022 in Review

March 10, 2023March 14, 2023 /Leave a comment

Spotlight on the ACAMS South Florida Chapter

March 10, 2023March 14, 2023 /Leave a comment

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