In this episode of ā€œFinancial Crime Matters,ā€ Kieran Beer talks with Jonathan Dupont, a financial intelligence investigator for Western Union, and Tiffany Polyak, anti-financial crime (AFC) associate at ACAMS, about the growth in online sexual exploitation of children and the related rise in child sexual...
Making Sense of the Current Chaos in Crypto, With Joby Carpenter

In this episode of ā€œFinancial Crime Matters,ā€ Kieran Beer talks with ACAMS colleague Joby Carpenter about the current tumult in the digital asset world, including plummeting cryptocurrency prices, digital value’s exploitation by money launderers, the threat from cyberhackers and the rise in crypto-related fraud schemes....
Professor Alexander Rodnyansky and Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi

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...
Daniel Thelesklaf

In this episode of ā€œFinancial Crime Matters,ā€ Kieran Beer talks with Daniel Thelesklaf, Project Director for Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST) at the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, about the effort to protect refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from human trafficking....
Making Russian Sanctions Stick and Fighting Financial Crime, with Ilze Znotina

In this episode of ā€œFinancial Crime Matters,ā€ Kieran Beer talks with Ilze Znotina about the challenges Latvia has faced over the past four years during her tenure as head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), including enforcing sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine....
Understanding the ā€œFreedom Convoyā€ and the Funding of Extremist Groups, with Jessica Davis

In this episode of ā€œFinancial Crime Matters,ā€ Kieran Beer talks with Jessica Davis, a veteran of more than 20 years in defense and intelligence roles in government and the private sector in Canada. They discuss the occupation of Canada’s capitol for three weeks last winter...