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ACAMS Today Europe, May - June 2019, Regulatory Initiatives

Risky Business: 5AMLD and EDD

May 22, 2019June 6, 2019 /Leave a comment

The Fifth European Union (EU) Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Directive (5AMLD)1 which entered into force on the 9 of July 2018, must be implemented by the EU member states by January 2020. Firms affected by the new directive, obliged entities, face new challenges resulting from the...

ACAMS Today Europe, Global Financial Crime Review, May - June 2019

An Inspection of the Real Estate Sector in Germany

May 22, 2019March 6, 2023 /Leave a comment

Germany’s real estate industry is one of the largest economic sectors of the country, with 817,000 companies and around 3 million registered employees in 2017. In 2016, the entire sector was valued at around €500 billion, representing a contribution of 18.2 percent to the growth...

ACAMS Today Europe, Compliance, May - June 2019, Special for the Web

The Rise of Cloud in Compliance

May 21, 2019June 26, 2019 /Leave a comment

The last 18 years have seen financial institutions (FIs) create and deploy money laundering detection and prevention defences in response to regulatory demands. The means by which FIs achieve this task have stayed the same for decades. Institutions will go to the market, scan providers...

ACAMS Today Europe, May - June 2019, Practical Solutions

The Intersection of AI in Financial Crime Compliance

May 21, 2019March 6, 2023 /Leave a comment

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the latest technology to take the compliance community by storm when it comes to reducing false alerts in both anti-money laundering (AML) and international sanctions screening programs. As European institutions begin to explore these technologies, many institutions are finding that the...

ACAMS Today Europe, AFC Challenges, May - June 2019

A Smorgasbord of Regulations

May 21, 2019December 18, 2019 /Leave a comment

Blockchain technology offers a wide array of solutions that challenge traditional business models but this innovation needs updated governance policies to balance efficiency and public safety. Blockchain technology can allow for autonomous users to transfer wealth quickly, worldwide, at any time and without any middlemen...

ACAMS Today Europe, From the Editor, May - June 2019

Renaissance

May 21, 2019June 4, 2019 /Leave a comment

At 19 years old, I set out on an adventure and lifelong dream—to see Europe. Armed with my backpack and everything I thought necessary to survive a six-week excursion to the continent, I began visiting country-after-country. I learned from this thrilling adventure that Europe was...

ACAMS Today Europe, From the Director of Editorial Content, May - June 2019

Catch the Bad Guys, Avoid a Penalty: Can compliance have it all?

May 21, 2019April 9, 2020 /Leave a comment

Welcome to the first issue of ACAMS Today Europe. ACAMS Today launched in 2002 as a membership benefit of a newly formed United States-based association of anti-money laundering (AML) professionals. Today, the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) is a global association of 73,000...

ACAMS Today

The Magazine for Career-minded Professionals in the Anti-Money Laundering Field

FinCEN’s Transnational Criminal Organization Activity Policies

Dissecting the Mafia: Apulia’s Sacra Corona Unita

Qatargate: Uncovering Corruption

Matt Zweig on the Dynamics of U.S. Congressional Sanctions Policy

Have Sanctions Against Russia Prompted Commodity Laundering?

The Emotional Consequences of Fraud

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