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June – August 2024, Member Spotlight

Elena Sutton, CAMS—Florida, USA

June 14, 2024September 5, 2024 /Leave a comment

Elena Sutton is a seasoned leader serving as a senior manager within Crowe’s Financial Services Consulting practice, where she leads the financial crime system implementation practice. With over nine years of experience, she excels in managing large-scale projects and assisting clients in the financial services...

June – August 2024, Member Spotlight

Jesus M. Garcia, CAMS—Florida, USA

June 14, 2024September 5, 2024 /Leave a comment

Jesus M. Garcia, CAMS, began working in the banking industry in June 1987. Garcia started to work in compliance for a domestic bank in 1991 when customer transaction reports and suspicious activity reports (SARs) were done manually. Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) was a part-time element...

Fraud, Fraud Alert, June – August 2024

Partners in AFC

June 14, 2024June 24, 2024 /Leave a comment

It has never been more important to cultivate relationships with law enforcement (LE) as an anti-money laundering professional. Once suspicious activity is identified, you have 30 days to conclude the investigation and file your suspicious activity report (SAR), which can be extended to 60 days...

June – August 2024, Know Your Chapter, San Diego – Baja California Chapter

ACAMS San Diego-Baja California Chapter: FBI Agent for a Day

June 14, 2024August 30, 2024 /Leave a comment

How many of us have ever wondered, “What would it be like to be a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agent?” Would we be an intense, work-obsessed hero like Fox Mulder who took risks while seeking the truth? Or would we be cool and...

Japan Chapter, June – August 2024, Know Your Chapter

ACAMS Japan Chapter: The ACAMS Japan Chapter Convenes Its First In-Person Event

June 14, 2024July 19, 2024 /Leave a comment

The ACAMS Japan Chapter, which launched in January 2021, successfully held its first in-person event in March 2024, withstanding the challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapter would like to take this opportunity to express their appreciation to all the chapter members. The event...

Interviews, June – August 2024

“Financial Crime Matters” Podcast Celebrates 500K Downloads

June 14, 2024July 23, 2024 /Leave a comment

ACAMS Today sat down with Kieran Beer, chief analyst and director of editorial content for ACAMS, to discuss his podcast, “Financial Crime Matters,” which recently crossed the 500,000-download mark. We talked to Beer, who also has an impressive track record promoting partnerships on his podcast...

Badge Bulletin, Interviews, June – August 2024

HSI Establishes Center to Fight Cross-Border Financial Crime

June 14, 2024August 7, 2024 /Leave a comment

Cross-border financial criminal activity―in which transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), money launderers, oligarchs, kleptocrats and other criminals employ international financial schemes to launder money, conceal their illicit funds and disguise the identity of the owners of that money―is rampant in the world’s financial system today. In...

June – August 2024, Practical Solutions

Building a Communication Bridge Between LE and FIs

June 14, 2024June 14, 2024 /Leave a comment

“Successful collaboration” in any relationship is built upon open and honest communication, which is sustained through a shared desire to accomplish a similar mission. This is critical to establishing, nurturing and maintaining collaboration between law enforcement (LE) and financial institutions (FIs). Conceptually, collaboration sounds easy;...

Career Guidance, June – August 2024

Finding Your AML Career’s Blue Zone

June 14, 2024June 14, 2024 /Leave a comment

Let us make work a “Blue Zone.” What is a Blue Zone, you ask? A Blue Zone is one of several areas around the world where people live longer and are happier on average than most other places on the planet. Simply put, people in...

Badge Bulletin, Interviews, June – August 2024

Anthony Salisbury: Disrupting, Dismantling and Prosecuting Criminals

June 14, 2024August 7, 2024 /Leave a comment

Anthony Salisbury, special agent in charge for Homeland Security Investigations Miami and also where Miami El Dorado Financial Crimes Task Force-South is housed, spoke with Karla Monterrosa-Yancey, editor-in-chief of ACAMS Today. With extensive experience working in federal law enforcement (LE), Salisbury has worked with the U.S....

ACAMS Today

The Magazine for Career-Minded Professionals in the Anti-Financial Crime Field

Angela Salter: The CAMS Evolution

A new era in financial crime prevention partnerships

Public-private partnerships in SAR optimization

Meme coin mania and mayhem: Navigating the blind spots

Steps FIs can take to improve working with LE

The money laundering bus driver

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