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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...
Our colleagues in the anti-money laundering (AML), compliance, regulatory and risk space work in a number of areas, including traditional finance, financial technology (fintech), the crypto and payments space as well as sports betting and gaming companies. One question that has been difficult to answer...
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...
Speaking with ACAMS Today is Erin West, deputy district attorney in Santa Clara County, California’s Regional Enforcement Allied Computer Team, known as REACT. She focuses on high-tech crimes. In addition, West leads the Crypto Coalition, a group of nearly 1,400 local, state, federal and international...
In the latest episode of the “Sanctions Space” podcast, Justine Walker is joined by Peter Harrell, nonresident fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and attorney. They discuss recent and anticipated Russia sanctions developments (including EO 14114, increasing focus on third countries, and price cap...
In September 2021, El Salvador made global headlines by becoming the first nation to embrace bitcoin as legal tender—an unprecedented move that sent ripples through traditional financial systems. This historical decision, orchestrated by President Nayib Bukele’s administration, has positioned El Salvador at the forefront of...
On August 23, 2023, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made waves at the annual BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations summit with a common currency proposal for BRICS countries to reduce dependency on the U.S. dollar, resulting in concerns that...
This month’s anti-financial crime (AFC) guru, Lindsay Lindmier, CAMS, CAFP, is the director of Financial Crimes and Bank Secrecy Act/Office of Foreign Assets Control (BSA/OFAC) officer at Security National Bank in Omaha, Nebraska. Security National Bank, which is a privately owned bank with an asset...
In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran Beer talks with Kenneth Rijock, a former Miami-based lawyer who spent a decade as a bag man for drug traffickers, investing their cash in accounts in the Caribbean and other offshore secrecy havens. Rijock describes some of...
In May 2023, blockchain analytics and cryptocurrency monitoring firms Elliptic and Chainalysis both released new findings that offer a glimpse into the role of cryptocurrency in the global fentanyl trade, specifically, the wholesale supply of precursor chemicals to fentanyl producers around the world. Both Elliptic...
