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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

Nature for Sale: Unmasking the True Cost of Wildlife Trafficking

Nature for Sale: Unmasking the True Cost of Wildlife Trafficking

ECO-SOLVE: Using AI to Disrupt Global Wildlife Trafficking

ECO-SOLVE: Using AI to Disrupt Global Wildlife Trafficking

Predicting the Future: LLMs in AML Regulation

Predicting the Future: LLMs in AML Regulation

Smileys to Syringes: Deciphering Emojis and Slang in Illicit Drug Sales

🤑Smileys to 💉Syringes: Deciphering Emojis and Slang in Illicit🍁Drug Sales

Featured Column

Marketing Your Resume for Results
Career Guidance, Featured Column

Are Resumes Dead?

June 18, 2024June 25, 2024 /Leave a comment
You have heard it before: “No one really cares about resumes,” “My accomplishments speak for themselves” or my personal favorite: “Resumes are dead.” These sentiments echo through LinkedIn forums and networking events. The belief that resumes are merely administrative tasks has taken root in the...
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Cuando el empleado bancario impulsa el lavado de activos
ACAMS Conexión, Acceso LatAm, Español, Featured Column

Cuando el empleado bancario impulsa el lavado de activos

June 12, 2024July 2, 2024 /Leave a comment
Las organizaciones delictivas necesitan a las entidades financieras para lavar el dinero mal habido y por ello requieren engañar a los empleados bancarios para que los acepten como clientes; es decir, el «enemigo» viene de afuera. Sin embargo, esas mismas entidades, pueden tener dentro de...
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Three Ways AI Is Augmenting AML Programs
ACAMS Connection, Back to the Basics, Featured Column

Three Ways AI Is Augmenting AML Programs

May 10, 2024May 15, 2024 /Leave a comment
For as long as there has been money, there has been someone trying to launder it. While the term itself is relatively recent—inspired by the cash-only laundromats Prohibition Era gangsters used to conceal their illegal earnings, and more formally defined via the Bank Secrecy Act...
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El crimen financiero y la destrucción de la Amazonia de Brasil
ACAMS Conexión, ACAMS Today Español, Acceso LatAm, Español, Featured Column

Crimen Financiero: Destrucción de la Amazonia de Brasil

April 23, 2024September 20, 2024 /Leave a comment
La Amazonia, conocida comúnmente como el «pulmón del planeta», no solo es una vasta reserva de biodiversidad, sino también un elemento crucial en la regulación del clima global y un bastión contra el cambio climático. Brasil, siendo uno de los mayores exportadores de carne bovina...
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Russian Sanctions: Hitting the Target or Missing the Mark?
ACAMS Connection, Europe Express, Featured Column

Russian Sanctions: Hitting the Target or Missing the Mark?

April 1, 2024November 1, 2024 /Leave a comment
Russia is currently the world’s most-sanctioned country in history. The number of currently active sanctions against Russia exceeds 18,800, which is four times more than the sanctions against Iran and almost nine times more than those against North Korea.1 Nevertheless, in 2023, the growth rate...
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Trust, but Verify: GenAI in AML Compliance
Back to the Basics, Featured Column

Trust, but Verify: GenAI in AML Compliance

March 11, 2024 /1 Comment
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is the most significant tech hype nowadays. Large language models became standard productivity tools, and new startups promise to revolutionize industries with GenAI. However, most existing GenAI-based products help in simple everyday tasks rather than redefining how people work. Can GenAI...
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2024: Predicting AFC employment trends
Career Guidance, Featured Column, March – May 2024

2024: Predicting AFC Employment Trends

March 1, 2024 /Leave a comment
I was apprehensive about writing this piece because 2023 was the year of false prophets and incorrect predictions. Everyone from the armchair economists (like me) and professional macroeconomists with Ph.D.s could not read the tea leaves of 2023 with accuracy. We were going into a...
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Navigating Account Closures
Community Banking Corner, Featured Column

Navigating Account Closures

February 28, 2024 /Leave a comment
Account closures, de-risking and de-banking are all phrases heard throughout the banking landscape in our current era. While the process seems simple enough at face value, it can be an onerous process to navigate. Closures can occur for many reasons: Fraud, unacceptable risk (money laundering,...
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The Department of the Treasury’s View of Crypto Compliance
ACAMS Connection, Featured Column, Tech Scope

The Department of the Treasury’s View of Crypto Compliance

February 16, 2024February 21, 2024 /Leave a comment
The year 2023 began in the wake of the collapse of FTX. Almost miraculously, however, 12 months later, the criminal case has been resolved with a conviction against former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, and countries around the globe are shaking off fear, uncertainty and doubt to...
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The Importance of Employee Retention
ACAMS Connection, Career Guidance, Featured Column

The Importance of Employee Retention

January 30, 2024February 7, 2024 /1 Comment
Our colleagues in the anti-money laundering (AML), compliance, regulatory and risk space work in a number of areas, including traditional finance, financial technology (fintech), the crypto and payments space as well as sports betting and gaming companies. One question that has been difficult to answer...
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