featured Archives - ACAMS Today

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, 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 /Leave a 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...

AFC Challenges, Global Financial Crime Review, Interviews, September – November 2025

Oksana Ihnatenko: Fighting financial crime in Ukraine

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

Oksana Ihnatenko, CAMS, is a managing director at the Center for Financial Integrity in Ukraine and a researcher for the Supervising and Monitoring Ukraine’s Reconstruction Funds project at the Centre for Finance and Security at the Royal United Services Institute. Her research focuses on Ukraine’s...

AFC Challenges, Compliance, Fraud, September – November 2025

Risks and romance: What the dating industry can learn from financial crimes compliance

September 12, 2025September 15, 2025 /Leave a comment

In the financial services industry, money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions regulations require financial institutions to implement governance frameworks for managing risks, accountability and public trust. In the financial services industry, money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions regulations require financial institutions (FIs) to implement governance...

AFC Challenges, Compliance, In Focus

Terrorist financing since 9/11: How the threat and the response have evolved

September 10, 2025September 10, 2025 /Leave a comment

As we pause to remember the tragic events of September 11, 2001 (9/11), we are reminded that 9/11 has forever changed how the world combats terrorist financing. The 9/11 attacks triggered a revolution in the financial surveillance landscape, forcing governments and institutions to rethink the...

AFC Policy, Europe Express, Featured Column

AMLA’s work program and its enhanced oversight of CASPs

August 29, 2025 /Leave a comment

The European Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) is officially in business. With a newly appointed chairperson, executive board and a 257-meter-high skyscraper in Frankfurt, it began laying foundations to become the key pillar of the EU’s fight against money laundering and terrorist financing. One of its...

AFC Policy, Compliance, Money Trails Brazil, World Digest

AML enforcement: A shift in Brazil’s luxury

August 21, 2025 /Leave a comment

One year ago, in June 2024, a decision issued by the Brazilian Council of Financial Activity (COAF), the country’s financial intelligence unit (FIU), indicated that the authority was engaging in a new approach toward the luxury market when the FIU imposed an unprecedented fine of...

Back to the Basics, Compliance, Featured Column, Tech Scope

The influence of emerging technologies on cybersecurity audits

August 18, 2025 /Leave a comment

In the fast-moving digital world of today, the constantly changing state of technology is writing new game rules for cybersecurity audits. Recent headlines—most of them relating to huge cyber breaches that have compromised millions of user credentials—serve as a quick reminder of the importance and...