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Financial Investigations and Confiscation in Fighting Crime

Financial Investigations and Confiscation in Fighting Crime

Huione Group and the Rise of a Financial Crime Superhub

Huione Group and the Rise of a Financial Crime Superhub

Offshore Trust Structures and Feeder Fund Mechanisms

Offshore Trust Structures and Feeder Fund Mechanisms

One and Done: Ending the Supplemental SAR Assembly Line

One and Done: Ending the Supplemental SAR Assembly Line

Next-Generation Financial Crime Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessments

Next-Generation Financial Crime Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessments

The Critical Role AFC Professionals Can Play in Sustainable Development

The Critical Role AFC Professionals Can Play in Sustainable Development

March – May 2021

Career Guidance, March – May 2021

Revisiting Musings From Quarantine: Chapter 2

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 /Leave a comment
Please look for the first chapter of “Musings From Quarantine” on ACAMSToday.org under our Career Guidance column. I wrote the first chapter of “Musings From Quarantine” for ACAMS Today’s Career Guidance column shortly after the U.S. declared a national emergency on March 13, 2020....
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AFC Challenges, March – May 2021

Regulating NPOs for Suspicious Activity

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 /Leave a comment
Growing terrorism fears are a major concern worldwide. Terrorist attacks have dismantled entire communities and thwarted the continued development of countries. Despite the enactment of various anti-money laundering regulations such as the Bank Secrecy Act in the U.S. and various statutes in other countries,...
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ACAMS Connection, AFC Challenges, March – May 2021

Human Trafficking in the Era of COVID-19

March 30, 2021February 2, 2023 /Leave a comment
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the globe, criminals continue finding new and manipulative ways to exploit the crisis. Human trafficking has continued to evolve, creating a new wave of victims and revictimization of those already exploited.1 In addition, convergence of criminality...
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AFC Challenges, March – May 2021

Ransomware on the Rise

March 30, 2021April 15, 2021 /Leave a comment
Ransomware attacks targeted against organizations, ranging from government departments to multinational corporations including financial institutions (FIs) and their customers, were the top cyberthreat story of 2020. For example, the Toll Group, an Australia-based logistics company, was hit not once but twice by ransomware over a...
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From the Director of Editorial Content, March – May 2021

Death to Tick the Box, Long Live Catch the Bad Guys

March 30, 2021 /Leave a comment
Over the almost 15 years that I have been with ACAMS, the phrases “tick the box” and “catch the bad guys” have been constants. The first is spoken disparagingly referring to an approach to compliance that anti-financial crime (AFC) professionals say has been forced upon...
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From the Editor, March – May 2021

“I Never Played for a Draw in My Life” -Sir Alex Ferguson

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 /Leave a comment
For me, one of the all-time greatest coaches is Sir Alex Ferguson of Manchester United F.C. The secret to Sir Alex’s success was his ability to know exactly what each player needed in order to triumph. He built many successful teams during his career due...
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ACAMS Connection, March – May 2021, Practical Solutions

Exam-Ready AML and Sanctions Programs

March 30, 2021February 2, 2023 /Leave a comment
After 13 years of working in the anti-financial crime (AFC) field for three financial institutions (FIs)—each with a different regulator—in addition to working closely with peers from all types of FIs, it has become evident that the description “one size fits all” does not apply...
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March – May 2021, Practical Solutions

Technology Will Not Save Us―Rethinking Risk Might

March 30, 2021May 21, 2021 /1 Comment
There is no more low-hanging fruit than reducing the cost of anti-money laundering (AML) transaction monitoring (TM). The data has been cleaned, the thresholds optimized and the analysts moved to low-cost locations. So, banks are looking for what is next and think they have...
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Compliance, March – May 2021

AMLA: The Gamechanger

March 30, 2021May 21, 2021 /Leave a comment
The Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AMLA)―included within the 4,517-page-long conference report on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA)1―is widely considered the most comprehensive change to the U.S. anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) regime since the USA PATRIOT Act...
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Compliance, March – May 2021

Surviving and Thriving in Uncertain Times

March 30, 2021May 21, 2021 /Leave a comment
Even during the best of times, anti-money laundering (AML) professionals are under great stress and strain from constantly changing regulatory and tactical environments. As criminals rapidly change tactics and technology inevitably lags, the AML profession must constantly improvise, adjust and overcome a plethora of obstacles....
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