EMEA Connect Archives

EMEA Connect, March – May 2021, Staff Notes

CBDCs: The Time Has Come

March 30, 2021April 29, 2021 /Leave a comment

For better or worse, digital currency is here to stay. Within the last decade, the use of virtual currencies has increased significantly, with retailers such as Whole Foods and Starbucks accepting payment in bitcoin.1 Perhaps encouraged by their adoption (Bitcoin has soared from $5,000 in...

December 2020 - February 2021, EMEA Connect, Staff Notes

Unity Across the Union

December 22, 2020 /Leave a comment

The European Commission issued its action plan for a comprehensive European Union (EU) policy on preventing money laundering and terrorist financing in May 2020.1 The action plan focuses on harmonizing, effectively implementing and reinforcing the existing anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) framework at the EU level....

EMEA Connect, September 2020 - November 2020, Staff Notes

Unexplained Wealth Orders―Looking Beyond the Headlines

October 5, 2020February 26, 2021 /Leave a comment

In June 2020, ACAMS partnered with Eversheds Sutherland and published a white paper titled “Unexplained Wealth Orders—Looking beyond the headlines.” This article is an excerpt of the white paper. The full white paper with sources and methodology can be found in the footnotes below.1...

EMEA Connect, June - August 2020, Staff Notes

Summer Updates From the ACAMS EMEA Team

July 7, 2020 /Leave a comment

As we write this whilst working from home, like so many of you in the global ACAMS community, we look forward with hope to a gradual emergence into the next phase of our socially distanced norm following the COVID-19 pandemic. In the last few weeks,...