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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...

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...

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....

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...

ACAMS Today Español, From the Director of Editorial Content

¿Puede el Cumplimiento Tenerlo Todo?

July 18, 2019July 29, 2019 /Leave a comment

Algunos temas son intemporales y universales. Esa es una manera elegante de decir que no se pueden resolver por completo y que son de naturaleza global. Esta edición de ACAMS Today Español que está leyendo es un testimonio de la naturaleza intratable de ciertos...

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From the Director of Editorial Content, June - August 2019

Fighting Crime Through Public-Private Partnerships

June 21, 2019July 19, 2019 /Leave a comment

Public-private partnerships that unite law enforcement (LE), financial institutions—and sometimes not-for-profits—have been amazingly successful in detecting, preventing and prosecuting all sorts of financial crimes, including human trafficking (HT). Project Protect in Canada, created following a presentation on HT at an Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering...

ACAMS Today Europe, From the Director of Editorial Content, May - June 2019

Catch the Bad Guys, Avoid a Penalty: Can compliance have it all?

May 21, 2019April 9, 2020 /Leave a comment

Welcome to the first issue of ACAMS Today Europe. ACAMS Today launched in 2002 as a membership benefit of a newly formed United States-based association of anti-money laundering (AML) professionals. Today, the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) is a global association of 73,000...

From the Director of Editorial Content, March - May 2019

Giving Victims of Sex Trafficking Their Due

March 28, 2019April 8, 2019 /Leave a comment

Human trafficking, a timeless example of the cruelty humans can inflict on one another, is receiving attention anew, adding new opponents along the way who are bringing innovative approaches to fight trafficking. In conjunction with law enforcement and nonprofits (NPOs), ACAMS members and staffers have...

December 2018 - February 2019, From the Director of Editorial Content

“Should auld acquaintances be forgot?”—Not If It Means a Lapse in CDD

December 20, 2018December 20, 2018 /Leave a comment

Some people make New Year’s resolutions. Some, as is the case for journalists, mark the start of another cycle of Earth’s rotation around the sun by analyzing the year just past. While no silver bullet ended financial crime in 2018, the march toward greater...

From the Director of Editorial Content, September - November 2018

All In

September 18, 2018October 2, 2018 /Leave a comment

“Think globally, act locally” expresses the faith that it is possible to change the world by improving conditions in our own backyards. Viewed expansively, it is also a recognition of the fact that we are all connected and that walls between nations, regions, cities and...

ACAMS Today

The Magazine for Career-minded Professionals in the Anti-Money Laundering Field

Detecting and Reporting Organized Retail Crime

DNA and the BSA

A Three-pronged Approach to Fighting Crypto Fraud

FinCEN’s AML and Terrorist Financing Priorities: An Introduction

Canada Honors Anti-human Trafficking Champion Peter Warrack

Fighting Fraud in the 2020s: All Hands on Deck for the Crime of the Century

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