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Identifying Financial Crime Threats, With Justine Walker and Craig Timm
ACAMS Connection, Digital Dose, Financial Crime Matters

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In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran Beer talks with ACAMS colleagues Justine Walker, head of global sanctions and AML risk and Craig Timm, senior AML director. They discuss the newly released “ACAMS Global AFC Threats 2024.” Drawing on 788 in-depth interactions with anti-financial...
AML Investigations for Correspondent Banking: A Best Practice Guide
ACAMS Connection, Practical Solutions, World Digest

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Correspondent banking has long been the backbone of the global financial system, facilitating cross-border payments, enabling international trade and promoting global financial stability. It involves a financial institution (FI), (the correspondent), providing a deposit account or other services to another bank, (the respondent).1 Anti-money laundering...
Grant Rabenn
ACAMS Connection, Digital Dose, Financial Crime Matters

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In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran Beer talks with Grant Rabenn, director, Financial Crimes Legal at Coinbase. Rabenn, a former federal prosecutor who handled some of the Department of Justice’s earliest crypto cases, discusses the promise of blockchain offerings, while acknowledging the industry’s...
A New Threat on the Horizon AI-Generated CSAM
ACAMS Connection, AFC Challenges, Human Trafficking Awareness Month, March – May 2024

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has opened the gates to a new horrific era in which perpetrators of crimes against children can generate ultrarealistic AI child sexual abuse material (CSAM) at the click of a button. AI-generated CSAM falls within the category of computer/digitally generated CSAM, which...