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Angela Salter: The CAMS Evolution

A new era in financial crime partnerships

A new era in financial crime prevention partnerships

Public-private partnerships in SAR optimization

Public-private partnerships in SAR optimization

Meme coin mania and mayhem: Navigating the blind spots

Meme coin mania and mayhem: Navigating the blind spots

Steps FIs can take to improve working with LE

Steps FIs can take to improve working with LE

The money laundering bus driver

The money laundering bus driver

From the Director of Editorial Content

From the Director of Editorial Content, June - August 2021

Digital Assets’ ‘Brave New World’

June 25, 2021 /Leave a comment
Looking back, 2020 was the year of COVID-19, cybercrime and cryptocurrency. The three, of course, are connected. Emboldened by the pandemic, cybercriminals were busy committing fraud, often utilizing cryptocurrencies, not least to receive payment in the many high-profile ransomware attacks that made headlines in 2020...
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ACAMS Today Europe, From the Director of Editorial Content, May - June 2021

Egmont Admonition: A Reminder That AML Can Be Misused

May 20, 2021May 26, 2021 /Leave a comment
I write often and hopefully about the rising acceptance throughout the world of anti-financial crime standards. But it turns out global anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) standards are a little like ‘The Force’ in the Star Wars universe: there is a light (good) side...
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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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December 2020 - February 2021, From the Director of Editorial Content

Worst of Times?

December 22, 2020December 23, 2020 /Leave a comment
By any measure, this has been a year that has tested us all, as several articles in this December 2020-February 2021 issue of ACAMS Today  make clear. More than 1.5 million people worldwide have died because of COVID-19, a death toll that continues to rise....
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From the Director of Editorial Content, September 2020 - November 2020

For Financial Criminals, There Is No Recession

October 2, 2020October 6, 2020 /Leave a comment
Even in an economic downturn there are plenty of proceeds from crime to be laundered. Hard times actually create opportunities for human and drug traffickers, and perpetrators of fraud are emboldened to pitch schemes that promise huge returns or magical cures, playing on the desperation...
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From the Director of Editorial Content, June - August 2020

Be Purposeful, Be Well

July 7, 2020 /Leave a comment
Law enforcement (LE) professionals deal with some of the most brutal manifestations of evil human behavior. It is a burden that can take a toll on them and their families. And, it is a burden we can be very grateful they choose to bear. I...
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ACAMS Today Europe, From the Director of Editorial Content, May 2020 - June 2020

In This Together

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 /Leave a comment
Seemingly contradictory trends are unfolding in the EU as I write this for the May-June issue of ACAMS Today Europe. A leaked European Commission report is proposing the creation of an uber-financial intelligence unit to coordinate and set standards for the 27 member states’ financial...
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From the Director of Editorial Content, March – May 2020

Twenty-Five Years Later

March 10, 2020March 10, 2020 /Leave a comment
During the winter holiday season, I spent some time in Mexico City. As hoped, the museums, the architecture and the archeological sites had the desired effect of “resetting” my outlook on the world. I learned a lot and, as a longtime New Yorker, was struck...
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December 2019 - February 2020, From the Director of Editorial Content

Weaponizing Kindness and Compassion

December 12, 2019 /Leave a comment
The horrific news in October that 39 people were found suffocated in a lorry about 25 miles east of London is just the latest reminder—a particularly shocking one— that the trafficking and smuggling of human beings remains a pervasive and persistent cancer in our world....
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Kieran Beer
From the Director of Editorial Content, September – November 2019

We Can Use More Heroes

September 3, 2019September 12, 2019 /Leave a comment
The September-November issue 2019 of ACAMS Today  that you are holding (or reading online) focuses on sanctions but is also “our conference issue” since its release coincides with our annual Las Vegas conference. Our largest conference, the 18th Annual AML & Financial Crime Conference  from...
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