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ACAMS was honoured to be joined at our Europe conference by two advisors of the Office of the President of Ukraine—Professor Alexander Rodnyansky and Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi. In the margins of the event, Rodnyansky and Kliuchkovskyi sat down with Justine Walker for this "Sanctions Space" podcast...
ACAMS Today chatted with Diego Rosero, one of the authors of the recently published “Best Practices for US Money Services Businesses,” a guide of industry best practices for Money Services Businesses (MSBs) that was seven years in the making, and it is now available for...
Perpetrators of organized retail crime, or ORCs, use a variety of methods to move and launder their profits, from simple structuring of deposits to complex trade-based and third-party money-laundering schemes, federal investigators and anti-financial crime professionals have found. Click here to read the full article.
Whilst the EU’s anti-money laundering (AML) directive has been in existence since 1991,1 the framework has continued to evolve over the past 30 years. The European Commission has implemented the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations whilst increasingly adopting its own standards and best practices...
Organised crime has a triple interest in the direct and indirect management of health services in Italy. First, there is interest because of the huge amount of money that revolves around these services, which can guarantee large profits for gangs. Second, investment in health is...
Crypto assets have given private individuals and groups the ability to access and provide a range of alternative financial services, which fall outside the scope of traditional banking, investments and payment services’ monopolies. In most jurisdictions, crypto assets can be used for speculative trading, payments...
Fraud can be simply described as the act of deception for personal gain. Acts of deception usually involve victims, either individuals or businesses. In most fraud occurrences, the primary motive and gain is financial. However, data has also become the primary target of fraudulent acts....
ACAMS Today Europe editorial interviewed Matis Mäeker, head of the Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and a member of the MONEYVAL Bureau. Mäeker has been the evaluator and reviewer of many mutual evaluation reports conducted by MONEYVAL. He is also a member of the Estonian...
ACAMS Today Europe spoke with Lora von Ploetz, head of a Global Financial Crime Unit focusing on mitigating significant financial crime risks, proactive investigations, analytics and technology. She discusses the impact of Russian sanctions, challenges faced by European anti-financial crime (AFC) professionals and how she...
The metaverse has been making headlines for the past few months since Facebook announced its rebranding to Meta. However, there is much more to the metaverse than Facebook’s version. The metaverse has actually been around for a few years now, and there is more than...
